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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 12 2 8 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Tim Parry REVIEWS EDITOR Gavin Dixon ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy SUB EDITORS David Threasher; Marija uric´ Speare 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 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 July 2023 issue is on sale from June 15; the August issue will be on sale from July 12 (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 Edward Breen admires a superbly cast account of Handel’s opera Serse from The English Concert and conductor Harry Bicket ORCHESTRAL Beethoven and Ravel piano concertos from Martha Argerich; Louise Farrenc symphonies; a new edition of film music by Vaughan Williams CHAMBER Beethoven and Berwald septets; a debut recital from violinist Maria Ioudenitch INSTRUMENTAL Yeol Eum Son surveys Mozart’s piano sonatas; Baroque music from guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre VOCAL Chesnokov choral music from Cambridge; Jordi Savall revisits the Mozart Requiem ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Charlotte Gardner surveys concerts to stream OPERA Mercadante’s Il proscritto; two contrasting Toscas JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals REISSUES Box-sets of recordings by Bernard Haitink, John Eliot Gardiner and Michel Corboz BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Kubelík’s 1956 Má vlast from Chicago is discussed by Rob Cowan and Andrew Achenbach BOOKS Four female composers; a guide to early opera GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Charlotte Gardner compares recordings of the Brahms Violin Concerto REVIEWS INDEX €€ FOR THE RECORD Anastasia Kobekina signs to Sony; the reopening of Handel’s London home. Plus: Tim Parry continues our Studio Guide with a report on the iconic cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris; the director Stephen Williams on the new film Chevalier; and James Jolly talks to Ian Patridge LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Benjamin Britten at Snape; remembering James Bowman; obituaries of Grace Bumbry, Ingrid Haebler and Menahem Pressler HANDEL: YEARS FROM A LIFE Richard Wigmore explores this composer’s work through the lens of six pivotal years in his life, relating to both his music and his biography THE ART OF SONG What factors play a role in programming art song in the concert hall and on record? David Patrick Stearns talks to singers, pianists and promoters about this unique art form CELEBRATING BRASS As Onyx Brass issue an album on NMC to celebrate their 30th anniversary, Richard Whitehouse talks to this brass quintet and the importance of commissioning new music ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR We reveal the 2023 shortlist – and invite you to help us choose the winning ensemble! MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Andrew Mellor talks to Andrew Lucas about recording Bruckner’s motets ICONS Hugo Shirley on the iconic status of Maria Callas CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pwyll ap Siôn reflects on the music of Steve Reich HIGH FIDELITY € The latest from the world of audio equipment MY MUSIC The Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng on music as an accompaniment to his writing €€ 4 GRAMOPHONE JULY 2023 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 12 2 8

EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Tim Parry REVIEWS EDITOR Gavin Dixon ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy SUB EDITORS David Threasher; Marija uric´ Speare 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

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 July 2023 issue is on sale from June 15; the August issue will be on sale from July 12 (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 Edward Breen admires a superbly cast account of Handel’s opera Serse from The English Concert and conductor Harry Bicket

ORCHESTRAL

Beethoven and Ravel piano concertos from Martha Argerich; Louise Farrenc symphonies; a new edition of film music by Vaughan Williams

CHAMBER

Beethoven and Berwald septets; a debut recital from violinist Maria Ioudenitch

INSTRUMENTAL

Yeol Eum Son surveys Mozart’s piano sonatas; Baroque music from guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre

VOCAL

Chesnokov choral music from Cambridge; Jordi Savall revisits the Mozart Requiem

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Charlotte Gardner surveys concerts to stream

OPERA

Mercadante’s Il proscritto; two contrasting Toscas

JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals

REISSUES

Box-sets of recordings by Bernard Haitink, John Eliot Gardiner and Michel Corboz

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Kubelík’s 1956 Má vlast from Chicago is discussed by Rob Cowan and Andrew Achenbach

BOOKS

Four female composers; a guide to early opera

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Charlotte Gardner compares recordings of the Brahms Violin Concerto

REVIEWS INDEX

€€

FOR THE RECORD

Anastasia Kobekina signs to Sony; the reopening of Handel’s London home. Plus: Tim Parry continues our Studio Guide with a report on the iconic cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris; the director Stephen Williams on the new film Chevalier; and James Jolly talks to Ian Patridge

LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Benjamin Britten at Snape; remembering James Bowman; obituaries of Grace Bumbry, Ingrid Haebler and Menahem Pressler

HANDEL: YEARS FROM A LIFE Richard Wigmore explores this composer’s work through the lens of six pivotal years in his life, relating to both his music and his biography

THE ART OF SONG

What factors play a role in programming art song in the concert hall and on record? David Patrick Stearns talks to singers, pianists and promoters about this unique art form

CELEBRATING BRASS

As Onyx Brass issue an album on NMC to celebrate their 30th anniversary, Richard Whitehouse talks to this brass quintet and the importance of commissioning new music

ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR We reveal the 2023 shortlist – and invite you to help us choose the winning ensemble!

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Andrew Mellor talks to Andrew Lucas about recording Bruckner’s motets

ICONS

Hugo Shirley on the iconic status of Maria Callas

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pwyll ap Siôn reflects on the music of Steve Reich

HIGH FIDELITY

€

The latest from the world of audio equipment

MY MUSIC

The Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng on music as an accompaniment to his writing

€€

4 GRAMOPHONE JULY 2023

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