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Per Nørgård’s place among today’s composers • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

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GRAMOPHONE Editor’s choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Remembering Danish composer Per Nørgård

Domingo Hindoyan joins LA Opera

Gabriela Montero • The pianist on judging the 2025 Cliburn Competition – and writing a piece for its contestants

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Capriccio • In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of an Austrian company with a nose for unusual repertoire

IN THE NEW EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL PIANO • Editor Tim Parry introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title devoted to the piano

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Belkis, Queen of Sheba • Mark Pullinger is seduced by Respighi at his most colourful in a 1934 suite culled from a ballet

CARTE BLANCHE • James Jolly met up with a musician with a few extra strings to his bow, the tenor Andrew Staples, who balances a career as singer, director and film-maker

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Soul music • As Anne Akiko Meyers continues in her ques forge heartfelt connections with contemporary composers – her new album is dedicated to works by Philip Glass – Thomas May meets the violinist and some of her key collaborators

Uncovering BIZET • To mark 150 years since the untimely death of Georges Bizet, Flora Willson reveals the composer’s legacy beyond the handful of popular works by which he remains best known

A BIZET LISTENING GUIDE • An opportunity to get to know some lesser-known works

Music in novels • Edward Breen suggests some music-themed summer reading – settle down with his inspiring selection of novels all infused with early music, his particular passion

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Edward Breen enjoys a masterly account of Biber’s 1681 Violin Sonatas from Bojan Čičić, music of flair and harmonic daring presented with precision and nobility

Orchestral

Schubert’s Piano Sonata, D959 • Tim Parry talks to Steven Osborne about getting to the heart of this late masterpiece

Chamber

Jelly d’Arányi • Tully Potter celebrates the talents of the Hungarian violinist who settled in London and who inspired and worked alongside composers such as Bartók, Ravel, Smyth and Vaughan Williams

Instrumental

Steve Elcock • Guy Rickards makes the case for a self-taught English-born composer whose late breakthrough came in his fifties

LISTEN TO ELCOCK’S MUSIC • Some of the finest of his works, both large-and small-scale

Vocal

A CHORAL GOLDEN AGE • Malcolm Riley listens to new recordings from five of the current crop of leading choral groups in repertoire focusing on new...