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• Bruce Broughton has recently conducted another recording in Intrada's Excalibur Collection, featuring classic Hollywood scores. Miklós ROzsa's music for the 1953 MGM production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (starring James Mason and Marion Brando) featured the Sinfonia of London and Chorus...

Teldec Classics International have signed a long-term exclusive contract with the harpsichordist and fortepianist Andreas Staler. The first recording session under the new agreement took place in May in Cologne and comprised Schubert's A minor Sonata, D845 and the KlavierstUcke, D946. These will...

The audience at any of John Eliot Gardiner's recent Queen Elizabeth Hall performances of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte will have heard something that audiences may not have heard for 200 years - Papageno's bells sounding exactly as the composer intended. The English keyboard specialist Robin Jennings...

Lorin Maazel has signed a new contract with RCA. As conductor of the BRSO Maazel will start his contract with music associated with Munich, orchestral music by Richard Strauss. The first disc cou- ples Also sprach Zarathustra, the Rosenkavaller Suite and Don Juan. It will be followed by Tod und...

The composer and conductor Oliver Knussen has signed a new contract with DO. The plans are for tour discs each year, focused on the major twentieth-century repertoire, with the emphasis on works unrepresented in the catalogue. The first two releases are of music by Cohn Matthews and a disc of...

Readers of Gramophone are being offered the chance to attend a concert given by Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in St John's, Smith Square, London - absolutely free. To celebrate the start of Koopman's new series of the complete Bach cantatas, launched in August, Gramophone, in...