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CONTENTS Volume 99 Number 1213 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup REVIEWS EDITOR Tim Parry ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy SUB EDITOR David Threasher SUB EDITOR Marija uric´ Speare ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Edward Christian-Hare ADVERTISING email advertising@gramophone.co.uk COMMERCIAL MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER James McMahon / 07967 169001 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0800 137201 (UK) +44 (0)1722 716997 (overseas) subscriptions@markallengroup.com PUBLISHING HEAD OF MARKETING John Barnett / 020 7501 6233 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Kyri Apostolou CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Bethany Foy / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford MANAGING DIRECTOR Paul Geoghegan CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen www.markallengroup.com GRAMOPHONE is published by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com or subscriptions@markallengroup.com ISSN 0017 310X. The May issue is on sale from April 20 23; the June issue will be on sale from May 18 (both UK). Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of statements in this magazine but we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers’ errors, or an advertiser not completing his contract. Regarding concert listings, all information is correct at the time of going to press. Letters to the editor requiring a personal reply should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. We have made every effort to secure permission to use copyright material. Where material has been used inadvertently or we have been unable to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue. UK subscription rate £77. Printed in England by Precision Colour Printing. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in October by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. The US annual subscription price is $114. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by agent named WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Subscription records are maintained at MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, Unit A, Buildings 1-5 Dinton Business Park, Catherine Ford Road, Dinton, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 5HZ, UK. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent. © MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, 2022. All rights reserved. No part of the Gramophone may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Publishing Director. Please read our privacy policy, by visiting privacypolicy.markallengroup.com. This will explain how we process, use & safeguard your data. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of the editor or Gramophone. Advertisements in the journal do not imply endorsement of the products or services advertised. EDITOR’S CHOICE The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue RECORDING OF THE MONTH David Fanning welcomes Mitsuko Uchida’s stunningly vivid and beautifully recorded account of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations – one that takes its place among the best on record ORCHESTRAL The start of a Mahler cycle from the Czech Philharmonic; Lars Vogt plays Mendelssohn; live Stravinsky from the LSO and Simon Rattle CHAMBER Beethoven from the Chiaroscuro Quartet; the Hebrides Ensemble play music by Stuart MacRae INSTRUMENTAL Impressive Rachmaninov from Jean-Paul Gasparian; Daniel Barenboim’s ‘Encores’ VOCAL The songs of César Franck; Rachmaninov from Estonia; Renaissance gems from the Ora Singers OPERA Giordano’s Siberia; La bohème from Ireland JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor recommends some online viewing REISSUES Olivier Latry on DG; Neville Marriner’s Haydn BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Mike Ashman and Richard Bratby enjoy returning to Karl Böhm’s Tristan und Isolde BOOKS A memoir from Jeremy Denk; music and trains GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION David Gutman trawls the archives in search of the finest versions of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto REVIEWS INDEX FOR THE RECORD All the latest classical music news ALISA WEILERSTEIN The celebrated cellist follows up her solo Bach with Beethoven’s five cello sonatas, dispelling the notion that one should reach a certain age before setting down these pinnacles of the cello repertoire, as she tells Andrew Farach-Colton NORMA FISHER ­ As a third volume of archive BBC recordings is issued, the pianist and eminent teacher reflects on a life well lived with Michelle Assay FESTIVAL GUIDE ­ ­­ ­ Our annual guide to the best summer festivals – in the UK, Europe, the US and beyond – in a year which for many marks a return to normality MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE The violinist Viktoria Mullova discusses the unique and elusive challenges in Schubert’s C major Fantasie, D934, with Richard Bratby ICONS ­ Patrick Rucker traces the long career – spanning most of the 20th century – of the trailblazing Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pwyll ap Siôn examines the music of the hugely popular Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, whose sophisticated approach to sound design and recording techniques plays a key role in his work WHAT NEXT? Richard Bratby takes Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado as his starting point on a journey of exploration through some lesser-known light music classics to more serious Sullivan HIGH FIDELITY NEW RELEASES ­ MY MUSIC The pioneering audio engineer John Meyer on designing soundscapes for the world’s leading classical musicians, from MTT to Pavarotti 4 GRAMOPHONE MAY 2022 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 99 Number 1213

EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup REVIEWS EDITOR Tim Parry ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy SUB EDITOR David Threasher SUB EDITOR Marija uric´ Speare ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Edward Christian-Hare

ADVERTISING email advertising@gramophone.co.uk COMMERCIAL MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER James McMahon / 07967 169001

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0800 137201 (UK) +44 (0)1722 716997 (overseas) subscriptions@markallengroup.com

PUBLISHING HEAD OF MARKETING John Barnett / 020 7501 6233 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Kyri Apostolou CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Bethany Foy / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford MANAGING DIRECTOR Paul Geoghegan CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen www.markallengroup.com

GRAMOPHONE is published by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com or subscriptions@markallengroup.com ISSN 0017 310X.

The May issue is on sale from April 20 23; the June issue will be on sale from May 18 (both UK). Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of statements in this magazine but we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers’ errors, or an advertiser not completing his contract. Regarding concert listings, all information is correct at the time of going to press. Letters to the editor requiring a personal reply should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. We have made every effort to secure permission to use copyright material. Where material has been used inadvertently or we have been unable to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue. UK subscription rate £77. Printed in England by Precision Colour Printing. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in October by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. The US annual subscription price is $114. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by agent named WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Subscription records are maintained at MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, Unit A, Buildings 1-5 Dinton Business Park, Catherine Ford Road, Dinton, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 5HZ, UK. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent. © MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, 2022. All rights reserved. No part of the Gramophone may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Publishing Director. Please read our privacy policy, by visiting privacypolicy.markallengroup.com. This will explain how we process, use & safeguard your data. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of the editor or Gramophone. Advertisements in the journal do not imply endorsement of the products or services advertised.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue

RECORDING OF THE MONTH David Fanning welcomes Mitsuko Uchida’s stunningly vivid and beautifully recorded account of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations – one that takes its place among the best on record

ORCHESTRAL

The start of a Mahler cycle from the Czech Philharmonic; Lars Vogt plays Mendelssohn; live Stravinsky from the LSO and Simon Rattle

CHAMBER

Beethoven from the Chiaroscuro Quartet; the Hebrides Ensemble play music by Stuart MacRae

INSTRUMENTAL

Impressive Rachmaninov from Jean-Paul Gasparian; Daniel Barenboim’s ‘Encores’

VOCAL

The songs of César Franck; Rachmaninov from Estonia; Renaissance gems from the Ora Singers

OPERA

Giordano’s Siberia; La bohème from Ireland

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor recommends some online viewing

REISSUES

Olivier Latry on DG; Neville Marriner’s Haydn

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Mike Ashman and Richard Bratby enjoy returning to Karl Böhm’s Tristan und Isolde

BOOKS

A memoir from Jeremy Denk; music and trains

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION David Gutman trawls the archives in search of the finest versions of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

All the latest classical music news

ALISA WEILERSTEIN

The celebrated cellist follows up her solo Bach with Beethoven’s five cello sonatas, dispelling the notion that one should reach a certain age before setting down these pinnacles of the cello repertoire, as she tells Andrew Farach-Colton

NORMA FISHER

­

As a third volume of archive BBC recordings is issued, the pianist and eminent teacher reflects on a life well lived with Michelle Assay

FESTIVAL GUIDE ­ ­­

­

Our annual guide to the best summer festivals – in the UK, Europe, the US and beyond – in a year which for many marks a return to normality

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE The violinist Viktoria Mullova discusses the unique and elusive challenges in Schubert’s C major Fantasie, D934, with Richard Bratby

ICONS

­

Patrick Rucker traces the long career – spanning most of the 20th century – of the trailblazing Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pwyll ap Siôn examines the music of the hugely popular Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, whose sophisticated approach to sound design and recording techniques plays a key role in his work

WHAT NEXT?

Richard Bratby takes Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado as his starting point on a journey of exploration through some lesser-known light music classics to more serious Sullivan

HIGH FIDELITY

NEW RELEASES

­

MY MUSIC

The pioneering audio engineer John Meyer on designing soundscapes for the world’s leading classical musicians, from MTT to Pavarotti

4 GRAMOPHONE MAY 2022

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