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The reviewers Andrew Achenbach Jonathan Freeman- Richard Osborne Nicholas Anderson Attwood Stephen Plaistow Mary Berry Edward Greenfield Nicholas A Rast Alan Blyth David S Gutman Guy S Rickards Joan Chissell Stephen Johnson Marc Rochester Robert Cowan Lindsay Kemp Julie Anne Sadie Peter Dickinson Tess Knighton John Duarte Andrew Lamb Adrian Edwards Robert Layton Richard T Fairman Ivan March Stanley Sadie Lionel Salter Edward Seckerson Robert Seeley John B Steane David Fallows Ivan W G Moody Michael Stewart David J Fanning Bryce Morrison Jonathan Swain lain Fenlon David Nice John Warrack Hilary Finch Patrick O'Connor Arnold Whittall Fabrice Fitch Michael Oliver Richard Wigmore Key to symbols ~ New (D Reissue (reissues are also listed in comparisons as R; when a date appears as, say, 7/56 R it means the recording was first reviewed in July 1956 but has since been reissued under the listed number, though not re-reviewed) 4D Historic (!) Video CD Compact Disc EJ Cassette G LP 00 Digital Compact Cassette " LaserDisc m VHS Cassette oas Only available singly aas Also available singly nla No longer available Price where stated is inclusive of VAT at 17·5% ® Full price £\0 and over @ Medium price £7 .- £9·99 ® Bargain price £5 ~ £6·99 ® Super bargain price £4·99 and below AAD/ADDIDDD denote analogue or digital stages in the recording! editing or mixing! mastering or transcription processes in CD manufacture Gramophone Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone Volume 75 Number 889 Published by Gramophone Publications Limited 135 Greenford Road. Sudbury Hill. Harrow. Middlesex HA1 3YD. Great Britain. Telephone 0181·422 4562 Fax 0181·869 8400 E-mail in(o@gramophone.co.uk North American subscriber enquiries Mercury Airfreight International Ltd Telephone 908·396 9555 Fax 908-396 1492 Gramophone is published monthly on the Wednesday nearest the middle of each month prior to that of issue and is available from all newsagents, bookstalls and via subscription.~ US air·speeded rate $75,00, periodicals postage paid Rahway, NJ and at additional mailing offices. Subscribers, both at home and abroad, are requested to advise change of address details to our Subscription Department at least five weeks prior to the change becoming effective.~ US Postmaster please send North American address corrections. to Mercury Airfreight International Ltd. Inc., 2323 Randolf Avenue, Avenel, NJ07001.1I Whilst every effort had been made to eosure the accuracy of statements in this magazine, we cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not completing his contract.lIlt is requested that all letters to the Editor requiring a personal reply should be acccmpanied by a stamped addressed envelope.lI Printed in England by St Ives (Plymouth) Limited, Plymouth; and London.'1 ISSN 0017·3 lOX © 1997 Gramophone Publications Limited 2 Gramophone June 1997 Editorial Fax 018 1·869 8403 E-mail editor@gramophone.co.uk Editor .James .Jolly Deputy Editor Assis1ant Editor Editorial Assistant Audio Editor Audio Consulting Editor Harriet Smith Mark Wiggins Vivian Stewart Ivor Humphreys Keith Howard Advertising Fox0181-8698402 E-mail adverts@gramophone. co.uk Sales Manager lain Hutchison Advertisement Managers Roger Thomas Paul Geoghegan Advertisement Proouction Co-ordinator Patti Alvarez Production F.x0181 -8698402 Production Manager Designer Dermot Jones Dinah Lone Marketing Fo. 0181 -869 8402 E-mail info@gramophone.cO.uk Marketing Manager Verity Batchelder Subscriptions F. . 0181 ·8698404 E-mail subs@gramophone.co.uk Subscription Manager Valerie Warburton Gramophone Publications Limited Fo. 0181·869 8400 E-mail info@gramophone.co.uk Chairman Anthony Pollard Editorial Director Christopher Pollard [};rector of ButrteSS Development Financial Di rector Editorial Manager Product ion Editor Barry Irving Richard Phalp Philippa Bunting Emma Roach Reviews 4 Index to reviews 48 Orchestral 74 Chamber 84 Instrumental 94 Choral and song 106 Opera 119 Collectors' corner 126 World music Features 14 John Eliot Gardiner Ever eclectic in his tastes, John Eliot Gardiner discusses his longstanding affection for Britten's music, his most recent series of concerts of Schumann in London and Handel's approach to opera John Eliot Gardiner Pholo DCI Rock 40 Schubert In the last of our three-part survey examining the music of Schubert, Hilary Finch discusses his vocal music with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Ian Bostridge, David Wilson Johnson and pianists Graham Johnson and David Owen Norris 12. World music to Fran<;ois Picard explores the array of ingredients which have put France at the forefront of the world music recording industry. Reviews include discs of music from West Africa, Jewish klezmer and a reissue of a 1972 perfonnance given by Ravi Shankar and Akbar Khan

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The reviewers Andrew Achenbach Jonathan Freeman- Richard Osborne Nicholas Anderson Attwood Stephen Plaistow Mary Berry Edward Greenfield Nicholas A Rast Alan Blyth David S Gutman Guy S Rickards Joan Chissell Stephen Johnson Marc Rochester Robert Cowan Lindsay Kemp Julie Anne Sadie

Peter Dickinson Tess Knighton

John Duarte

Andrew Lamb

Adrian Edwards Robert Layton

Richard T Fairman Ivan March

Stanley Sadie Lionel Salter

Edward Seckerson

Robert Seeley

John B Steane

David Fallows

Ivan W G Moody Michael Stewart

David J Fanning Bryce Morrison Jonathan Swain lain Fenlon David Nice John Warrack Hilary Finch Patrick O'Connor Arnold Whittall Fabrice Fitch Michael Oliver Richard Wigmore

Key to symbols ~ New (D Reissue (reissues are also listed in comparisons as R; when a date appears as, say, 7/56 R it means the recording was first reviewed in July 1956 but has since been reissued under the listed number, though not re-reviewed) 4D Historic (!) Video CD Compact Disc EJ Cassette G LP 00 Digital Compact Cassette " LaserDisc m VHS Cassette oas Only available singly aas Also available singly nla No longer available Price where stated is inclusive of VAT at 17·5% ® Full price £\0 and over @ Medium price £7 .- £9·99 ® Bargain price £5 ~ £6·99 ® Super bargain price £4·99

and below AAD/ADDIDDD denote analogue or digital stages in the recording! editing or mixing! mastering or transcription processes in CD manufacture

Gramophone Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone

Volume 75 Number 889

Published by Gramophone Publications Limited 135 Greenford Road. Sudbury Hill. Harrow. Middlesex HA1 3YD. Great Britain. Telephone 0181·422 4562 Fax 0181·869 8400 E-mail in(o@gramophone.co.uk

North American subscriber enquiries Mercury Airfreight International Ltd Telephone 908·396 9555 Fax 908-396 1492 Gramophone is published monthly on the Wednesday nearest the middle of each month prior to that of issue and is available from all newsagents, bookstalls and via subscription.~ US air·speeded rate $75,00, periodicals postage paid Rahway, NJ and at additional mailing offices. Subscribers, both at home and abroad, are requested to advise change of address details to our Subscription Department at least five weeks prior to the change becoming effective.~ US Postmaster please send North American address corrections. to Mercury Airfreight International Ltd. Inc., 2323 Randolf Avenue, Avenel, NJ07001.1I Whilst every effort had been made to eosure the accuracy of statements in this magazine, we cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not completing his contract.lIlt is requested that all letters to the Editor requiring a personal reply should be acccmpanied by a stamped addressed envelope.lI Printed in England by St Ives (Plymouth) Limited, Plymouth; and London.'1 ISSN 0017·3 lOX

© 1997 Gramophone Publications Limited

2 Gramophone June 1997

Editorial Fax 018 1·869 8403 E-mail editor@gramophone.co.uk

Editor

.James .Jolly

Deputy Editor

Assis1ant Editor

Editorial Assistant

Audio Editor Audio Consulting Editor

Harriet Smith

Mark Wiggins

Vivian Stewart

Ivor Humphreys

Keith Howard

Advertising Fox0181-8698402

E-mail adverts@gramophone. co.uk

Sales Manager lain Hutchison

Advertisement Managers Roger Thomas

Paul Geoghegan

Advertisement Proouction Co-ordinator Patti Alvarez

Production F.x0181 -8698402

Production Manager Designer

Dermot Jones

Dinah Lone

Marketing Fo. 0181 -869 8402

E-mail info@gramophone.cO.uk

Marketing Manager Verity Batchelder

Subscriptions F. . 0181 ·8698404 E-mail subs@gramophone.co.uk

Subscription Manager Valerie Warburton

Gramophone Publications Limited Fo. 0181·869 8400 E-mail info@gramophone.co.uk

Chairman

Anthony Pollard

Editorial Director Christopher Pollard [};rector of ButrteSS

Development Financial Di rector Editorial Manager Product ion Editor

Barry Irving Richard Phalp Philippa Bunting

Emma Roach

Reviews 4 Index to reviews 48 Orchestral 74 Chamber 84 Instrumental 94 Choral and song 106 Opera 119 Collectors' corner 126 World music

Features 14 John Eliot Gardiner

Ever eclectic in his tastes, John Eliot Gardiner discusses his longstanding affection for Britten's music, his most recent series of concerts of Schumann in London and Handel's approach to opera

John Eliot Gardiner Pholo DCI Rock

40 Schubert

In the last of our three-part survey examining the music of Schubert, Hilary Finch discusses his vocal music with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Ian Bostridge, David Wilson Johnson and pianists Graham Johnson and David Owen Norris

12. World music to Fran<;ois Picard explores the array of ingredients which have put France at the forefront of the world music recording industry. Reviews include discs of music from West Africa, Jewish klezmer and a reissue of a 1972 perfonnance given by Ravi Shankar and Akbar Khan

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