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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 1236 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 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jonathan Whiting ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITOR EMERITUS James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Jasmine Cullingford ADVERTISING email advertising@gramophone.co.uk COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR 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 Ravi Chandiramani 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 February 2024 issue is on sale from January 31; the March issue will be on sale from February 28 (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 witDavh 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, 2024. 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 Jed Distler on a masterly piano recital from Behzod Abduraimov, featuring vivid and lyrical accounts of three narrative cycles ORCHESTRAL Bruckner’s Third with François-Xavier Roth; Elisabeth Leonskaja in Grieg and Schumann; Neeme Järvi conducts Lalo CHAMBER Xavier Phillips in Fauré; sonatas of Andreas Oswald; Faust and Melnikov in Schumann INSTRUMENTAL Mark Viner’s Alkan survey continues; Levit plays Mendelssohn; Martin James Bartlett’s ‘La danse’ VOCAL Bach cantatas from Stuttgart and Weimar; Britten’s War Requiem remastered; Langgaard songs ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor surveys online performances OPERA Paderewski’s Manru; Il barbiere from Vienna JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals REISSUES Rodzinski in Cleveland; the DG Avantgarde Series; Concerto Italiano’s Monteverdi madrigals BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Jeremy Nicholas and Rob Cowan discuss Horowitz’s 1932 account of Liszt’s Sonata BOOKS The Strauss dynasty; a history of song GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Geraint Lewis chooses the standout recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto REVIEWS INDEX €€ FOR THE RECORD Archive Bruckner on Somm, the complete Crumb and Rattle conducts Jenu˚fa; introducing the vocal ensemble La Quintina; where next after Verdi’s Otello; Timothy Ridout on his latest album; and James Jolly meets Semyon Bychkov LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Memories of Maria Callas in Chicago, Bruckner on record, great organists, remembering Mildred Miller and Hermann Baumann ASMIK GRIGORIAN Mark Pullinger meets soprano Asmik Grigorian, who won a Gramophone Award in 2022 and has now sets her sights on Strauss’s Four Last Songs MARTIN JAMES BARTLETT Jeremy Nicholas catches up with Martin James Bartlett to explore the pianist’s new album of dance-inspired works by French composers SMETANA: A CZECH MASTER Nigel Simeone provides an invaluable guide to Bed∑ich Smetana’s music to mark 200 years since the composer’s death MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE The score of Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite is examined by conductor Susanna Mälkki and Andrew Farach-Colton, who both agree that the work is not performed often enough ICONS Michael McManus pays tribute to PolishAmerican conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski whose career spanned the globe, from Manchester to Minneapolis and Tokyo CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Richard Whitehouse surveys the musical output of composer Arlene Sierra: ‘a composer of consistent individuality and substance’ HIGH FIDELITY € The latest from the world of audio equipment MY MUSIC €€ The artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy on music that inspires him 4 GRAMOPHONE FEBRUARY 2024 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 1236

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 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jonathan Whiting ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITOR EMERITUS James Jolly WITH THANKS TO Jasmine Cullingford

ADVERTISING email advertising@gramophone.co.uk COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR 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 Ravi Chandiramani 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 February 2024 issue is on sale from January 31; the March issue will be on sale from February 28 (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 witDavh 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, 2024. 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 Jed Distler on a masterly piano recital from Behzod Abduraimov, featuring vivid and lyrical accounts of three narrative cycles

ORCHESTRAL

Bruckner’s Third with François-Xavier Roth; Elisabeth Leonskaja in Grieg and Schumann; Neeme Järvi conducts Lalo

CHAMBER

Xavier Phillips in Fauré; sonatas of Andreas Oswald; Faust and Melnikov in Schumann

INSTRUMENTAL

Mark Viner’s Alkan survey continues; Levit plays Mendelssohn; Martin James Bartlett’s ‘La danse’

VOCAL

Bach cantatas from Stuttgart and Weimar; Britten’s War Requiem remastered; Langgaard songs

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor surveys online performances

OPERA

Paderewski’s Manru; Il barbiere from Vienna

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

REISSUES

Rodzinski in Cleveland; the DG Avantgarde Series; Concerto Italiano’s Monteverdi madrigals

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Jeremy Nicholas and Rob Cowan discuss Horowitz’s 1932 account of Liszt’s Sonata

BOOKS

The Strauss dynasty; a history of song

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Geraint Lewis chooses the standout recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto

REVIEWS INDEX

€€

FOR THE RECORD

Archive Bruckner on Somm, the complete Crumb and Rattle conducts Jenu˚fa; introducing the vocal ensemble La Quintina; where next after Verdi’s Otello; Timothy Ridout on his latest album; and James Jolly meets Semyon Bychkov

LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Memories of Maria Callas in Chicago, Bruckner on record, great organists, remembering Mildred Miller and Hermann Baumann

ASMIK GRIGORIAN

Mark Pullinger meets soprano Asmik Grigorian, who won a Gramophone Award in 2022 and has now sets her sights on Strauss’s Four Last Songs

MARTIN JAMES BARTLETT Jeremy Nicholas catches up with Martin James Bartlett to explore the pianist’s new album of dance-inspired works by French composers

SMETANA: A CZECH MASTER Nigel Simeone provides an invaluable guide to Bed∑ich Smetana’s music to mark 200 years since the composer’s death

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE The score of Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite is examined by conductor Susanna Mälkki and Andrew Farach-Colton, who both agree that the work is not performed often enough

ICONS

Michael McManus pays tribute to PolishAmerican conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski whose career spanned the globe, from Manchester to Minneapolis and Tokyo

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Richard Whitehouse surveys the musical output of composer Arlene Sierra: ‘a composer of consistent individuality and substance’

HIGH FIDELITY

€

The latest from the world of audio equipment

MY MUSIC

€€

The artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy on music that inspires him

4 GRAMOPHONE FEBRUARY 2024

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