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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 1231 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 Part of 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 October 2023 issue is on sale from September 13; the Awards issue will be on sale from October 5 (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 Peter Quantrill welcomes a new recording of Parry’s Prometheus Unbound, a spectacular cantata of Wagnerian dimensions ORCHESTRAL Simon Callaghan performs British piano concertos; Locatelli from Isabelle Faust CHAMBER Rachel Podger’s CPE Bach; Morton Feldman from Apartment House; Emilie Mayer string quartets; a trip to 18th-century London INSTRUMENTAL Handel harpsichord suites; Daniel-Ben Pienaar surveys Haydn sonatas; Liszt’s take on Winterreise VOCAL Nicholas McGegan’s Bach St John Passion; The Orlando Consort sings Machaut ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Peter Quantrill reviews online performances OPERA Atterberg’s Aladin; Corigliano reimagines Dracula JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals REISSUES Klemperer remastered; Harnoncourt’s lifelong Mozart journey BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives CLASSICS RECONSIDERED A look back to the pioneering Hildegard album from Christopher Page and Gothic Voices BOOKS Finzi’s letters; a portrait of Schubert € GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony – a survey of the work’s rich recording history REVIEWS INDEX FOR THE RECORD We remember the great soprano Renata Scotto; our One to Watch is Sydney winner Jeonghwan Kim; an insight into the attraction of St Silas, Kentish Town; James Jolly talks to pianist Igor Levit about balancing art and activism LETTERS & OBITUARIES In praise of Chandos’s sound; Robert Craft in Norway; we pay tribute to the conductor Arnold Östman and the composer Carl Davis RAPHAËL PICHON We meet the innovative conductor of Pygmalion ahead of his release of Monteverdi’s Vespers I FAGIOLINI The vocal group’s Director Robert Hollingworth tells us about their new series of Benevoli Masses JOHN ANDREWS Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald is just the latest fascinating revival for this conductor AWARDS SHORTLIST Which albums are in contention for this year’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards? SEASON PREVIEW What does the 2023-24 season have in store? Our global guide to the best concerts and events MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Adám Fischer tells Lindsay Kemp why Haydn’s Symphony No 97 means so much to him ICONS Violin virtuoso Kyung Wha Chung is our focus, as our special centenary series reaches the 1980s CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS We explore the inspiring sound world of Chaya Czernowin, and recommend some listening HIGH FIDELITY € The latest from the world of audio equipment MY MUSIC Presenter Myleene Klass on her musical childhood and her role championing the art form today 4 GRAMOPHONE OCTOBER 2023 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 1231

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

Part of 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 October 2023 issue is on sale from September 13; the Awards issue will be on sale from October 5 (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 Peter Quantrill welcomes a new recording of Parry’s Prometheus Unbound, a spectacular cantata of Wagnerian dimensions

ORCHESTRAL

Simon Callaghan performs British piano concertos; Locatelli from Isabelle Faust

CHAMBER

Rachel Podger’s CPE Bach; Morton Feldman from Apartment House; Emilie Mayer string quartets; a trip to 18th-century London

INSTRUMENTAL

Handel harpsichord suites; Daniel-Ben Pienaar surveys Haydn sonatas; Liszt’s take on Winterreise

VOCAL

Nicholas McGegan’s Bach St John Passion; The Orlando Consort sings Machaut

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Peter Quantrill reviews online performances

OPERA

Atterberg’s Aladin; Corigliano reimagines Dracula

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

REISSUES

Klemperer remastered; Harnoncourt’s lifelong Mozart journey

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED A look back to the pioneering Hildegard album from Christopher Page and Gothic Voices

BOOKS

Finzi’s letters; a portrait of Schubert

€

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony – a survey of the work’s rich recording history

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

We remember the great soprano Renata Scotto; our One to Watch is Sydney winner Jeonghwan Kim; an insight into the attraction of St Silas, Kentish Town; James Jolly talks to pianist Igor Levit about balancing art and activism

LETTERS & OBITUARIES In praise of Chandos’s sound; Robert Craft in Norway; we pay tribute to the conductor Arnold Östman and the composer Carl Davis

RAPHAËL PICHON

We meet the innovative conductor of Pygmalion ahead of his release of Monteverdi’s Vespers

I FAGIOLINI

The vocal group’s Director Robert Hollingworth tells us about their new series of Benevoli Masses

JOHN ANDREWS

Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald is just the latest fascinating revival for this conductor

AWARDS SHORTLIST Which albums are in contention for this year’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards?

SEASON PREVIEW

What does the 2023-24 season have in store? Our global guide to the best concerts and events

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Adám Fischer tells Lindsay Kemp why Haydn’s Symphony No 97 means so much to him

ICONS

Violin virtuoso Kyung Wha Chung is our focus, as our special centenary series reaches the 1980s

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS We explore the inspiring sound world of Chaya Czernowin, and recommend some listening

HIGH FIDELITY

€

The latest from the world of audio equipment

MY MUSIC

Presenter Myleene Klass on her musical childhood and her role championing the art form today

4 GRAMOPHONE OCTOBER 2023

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