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FOR THE RECORD • Hannigan named Chief Conductor in Iceland

New composer support scheme

Handel on the silver screen

Igor Levit announces new album

ONE TO WATCH • Aigul Akhmetshina mezzo-soprano

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Erato • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the history and legacy of a long-admired Paris-based label

New Decca harpist

Christ Church appointment

Wigglesworth appointment

Oliver Leith • The composer talks about his opera Last Days

WHAT NEXT? • In this month’s guide to further listening, Mark Seow suggests a soundtrack to a summer of sport, starting with Debussy’s danced ballet, the tennis-themed Jeux.

IN THIS MONTH’S CHOIR & ORGAN • Hattie Butterworth, the Editor of Gramophone’s quarterly sister title, introduces the latest issue

As one chapter closes, another opens • As his career changes gear, and he adds ‘author’ to his CV, Sir Antonio Pappano talks to James Jolly about his love of English music, his musical journey and ‘influence’

Letter of the Month

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Impressions of SCHOENBERG • How should we view the composer whose music still divides audiences 150 years after his birth? Peter Quantrill and key Schoenberg advocates set his work in the context of his own era, and of ours

In harmony • As The Gesualdo Six marks 10 years with a characteristically imaginative album, Mark Seow encounters an ensemble as close-knit socially as it is musically

Record maker • As Decca marks the centenary of one its most visionary producers, James Jolly hears from John Culshaw’s friends, colleagues and admirers in celebration of one of the classical record industry’s greats

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Pwyll ap Siôn welcomes an album from Bertrand Chamayou that highlights the balletic grace and rhythmic nuance of John Cage’s music for prepared piano

Orchestral

MANACORDA’S BEETHOVEN • Richard Wigmore listens in as Antonello Manacorda and his Potsdam forces complete their punchy but lyrical Beethoven symphony cycle

Schubert’s F minor Fantasie, D940 • Tim Parry meets Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy to discuss their new recording of perhaps the greatest of all piano duets

Chamber

Wanda Landowska • Stephen Cera celebrates the remarkable Polish keyboard player who single-handedly revived interest in the harpsichord during the early part of the 20th century

Instrumental

Fenella Humphreys • The violinist discusses ‘Prism’, a solo album showcasing specially written new works

Stuart MacRae • Richard Whitehouse delves into the fascinating and evocative sound world of this Scottish composer

Vocal

A concert for Europe •...