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CONTENTS Volume 100 Number 1222 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 EDITORS David Threasher; Marija uric´ Speare EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Hattie Butterworth; Eleanor Burgess EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Jasmine Cullingford and Charlotte Gardner 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 January 2023 issue is on sale from January 4; the February issue will be on sale from February 1 (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, 2023. 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 Hugo Shirley enjoys a colourful exploration of Donizetti arias from the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena, with an interesting selection that generally avoids over-recorded favourites ORCHESTRAL Mozart concertos from a new generation of instrumentalists; Barenboim revisits Schumann; Sir Andrew Davis conducts Stravinsky CHAMBER Flute sonatas by CPE Bach; Fretwork play Locke; the Jubilee Quartet’s impressive Schubert INSTRUMENTAL Vicky Chow plays Glass; an imposing debut from Alim Beisembayev; Rachel Podger’s ‘Tutta sola’ VOCAL Songs by Milton Babbitt; Blue Heron turn to Machaut; a striking album from Ruby Hughes ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor reports on online music-making OPERA Cherubini’s Les Abencérages; Rameau’s Zoroastre JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines REISSUES Gieseking on Warner and an APR supplement BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Two critics dissect Rachmaninov’s 1930 recording of Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata BOOKS Vaughan Williams and Boult; the Romantic age GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Mark Pullinger delves daringly into the vast discography of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto REVIEWS INDEX FOR THE RECORD The latest news, including the BBC Phil’s new Chief Conductor and a forthcoming limitededition box-set celebrating Abbado’s career with DG – plus, the composer Julian Anderson speaks to us about receiving the 2023 Grawemeyer Music Award, Tim Parry steps inside Wyastone Concert Hall, and James Jolly talks with the Toronto SO’s new CEO, Mark Williams, about what a modern symphony orchestra should be LETTERS AND OBITUARIES The true venue for Façade’s first private London performance; the many faces of Rozhdestvensky RACHMANINOV AT In our first feature, Jeremy Nicholas celebrates this ‘most complete’ musician who excelled as composer, conductor and pianist, while, in our second feature, Philip Ross Bullock explores the startlingly original works that emerged from Rachmaninov’s enforced final years in exile VOICES AND VIOLS UNITE The King’s Singers and Fretwork have joined forces to celebrate 400 years since the deaths of both Byrd and Weelkes, finds Edward Breen COMPETITIONS GUIDE Our annual guide presents the best competitions across the UK, Europe, the US and further afield MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Christian-Pierre La Marca conveys his passion for Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1 to Richard Bratby ICONS Tully Potter recalls the extensive live and recorded legacy of the American baritone Robert Merrill CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Guy Rickards surveys the disarmingly broad output of British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad HIGH FIDELITY ­ The latest from the world of audio equipment MY MUSIC ­ Film composer Alan Silvestri on his how classical guitar paved the way for a career in composition 4 GRAMOPHONE JANUARY 2023 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 100 Number 1222

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 EDITORS David Threasher; Marija uric´ Speare EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Hattie Butterworth; Eleanor Burgess EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Jasmine Cullingford and Charlotte Gardner

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 January 2023 issue is on sale from January 4; the February issue will be on sale from February 1 (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, 2023. 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 Hugo Shirley enjoys a colourful exploration of Donizetti arias from the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena, with an interesting selection that generally avoids over-recorded favourites

ORCHESTRAL

Mozart concertos from a new generation of instrumentalists; Barenboim revisits Schumann; Sir Andrew Davis conducts Stravinsky

CHAMBER

Flute sonatas by CPE Bach; Fretwork play Locke; the Jubilee Quartet’s impressive Schubert

INSTRUMENTAL

Vicky Chow plays Glass; an imposing debut from Alim Beisembayev; Rachel Podger’s ‘Tutta sola’

VOCAL

Songs by Milton Babbitt; Blue Heron turn to Machaut; a striking album from Ruby Hughes

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor reports on online music-making

OPERA

Cherubini’s Les Abencérages; Rameau’s Zoroastre

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

REISSUES

Gieseking on Warner and an APR supplement

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Two critics dissect Rachmaninov’s 1930 recording of Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata

BOOKS

Vaughan Williams and Boult; the Romantic age

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Mark Pullinger delves daringly into the vast discography of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

The latest news, including the BBC Phil’s new Chief Conductor and a forthcoming limitededition box-set celebrating Abbado’s career with DG – plus, the composer Julian Anderson speaks to us about receiving the 2023 Grawemeyer Music Award, Tim Parry steps inside Wyastone Concert Hall, and James Jolly talks with the Toronto SO’s new CEO, Mark Williams, about what a modern symphony orchestra should be

LETTERS AND OBITUARIES The true venue for Façade’s first private London performance; the many faces of Rozhdestvensky

RACHMANINOV AT

In our first feature, Jeremy Nicholas celebrates this ‘most complete’ musician who excelled as composer, conductor and pianist, while, in our second feature, Philip Ross Bullock explores the startlingly original works that emerged from Rachmaninov’s enforced final years in exile

VOICES AND VIOLS UNITE The King’s Singers and Fretwork have joined forces to celebrate 400 years since the deaths of both Byrd and Weelkes, finds Edward Breen

COMPETITIONS GUIDE Our annual guide presents the best competitions across the UK, Europe, the US and further afield

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Christian-Pierre La Marca conveys his passion for Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1 to Richard Bratby

ICONS

Tully Potter recalls the extensive live and recorded legacy of the American baritone Robert Merrill

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Guy Rickards surveys the disarmingly broad output of British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad

HIGH FIDELITY

­

The latest from the world of audio equipment

MY MUSIC

­

Film composer Alan Silvestri on his how classical guitar paved the way for a career in composition

4 GRAMOPHONE JANUARY 2023

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