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CONTENTS eviews BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols. St Nicolas Soloists; Choirs; City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Layton Hyperion CDA67946 ‘Allan Clayton makes the role of Nicolas entirely his own. What a glorious voice! I was reminded of the clarity of Wilfred Brown.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 74 PARRY Choral Works Amanda Roocroft sop BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Neeme Järvi Chandos CHAN10740 ‘Altogether the disc represents one of the most important Parry issues for many years, a credit to all the performers.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 80 MOZART Don Giovanni Soloists; Rastatt Vocal Ensemble; Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin DG 477 9878GH3 ‘From the fierce opening chords of the Overture to the moralising final ensemble, the pacing can’t be faulted.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 86 STEFFANI ‘Mission’ Cecilia Bartoli mez I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis Decca 478 4732DH ‘Cecilia Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project, which appears to be very much a personal labour of love.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 87 DVD/Blu-ray BERG Wozzeck Soloists; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis; Dmitri Tcherniakov dir Bel Air Classiques BAC068 ‘Everyone involved in this filming knows exactly where they are going and gets there triumphantly.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 84 gramophone.co.uk Reissue/Archive MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter Music & Arts CD1264 ‘It’ll likely move you to tears and I have no hesitation whatever in naming this the pre-eminent “historic” Mahler Second.’ REVIEW ON PAGE 92 Reviewed in this month’s Gramophone: 54 concertos; 20 symphonies; 9 operas ORCHESTRAL Edward Gardner’s Lutosπawski exploration continues; Alan Gilbert tackles Nielsen; Gergiev’s Tchaikovsky First, Second and Third CHAMBER The Takács return to Schubert’s String Quintet with Kirshbaum; transatlantic Schumann Piano Quintets go head-to-head INSTRUMENTAL Wispelwey’s latest Bach Cello Suites; Xenakis’s organ classic Gmeeoorh; Tharaud’s take on ’20s Parisian nightlife VOCAL Haydn’s Nelson Mass from New College, Oxford; Mahler’s Totenfeier live from the South Bank; Anna-Caterina Antonacci at the Wigmore OPERA Handel’s Alessandro in two new recordings; BΔlohlávek’s Bartered Bride from the Barbican; Glyndebourne’s Meistersinger on DVD BOOKS An enthusiast’s tribute to the piano music of Maurice Ravel; a documentary history of Soviet music following the Revolution REPLAY Bruno Walter’s astonishing Mahler from New York; the Paganini Quartet play Beethoven; the art of Bronislav Gimpel THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE This month’s specialist, Peter Dickinson, picks 10 of his favourite recordings of American symphonies of the early-20th century THE GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Jonathan Freeman-Attwood assesses the recorded legacy of Bach’s seasonal cantata collection, the Christmas Oratorio GRAMOPHONE DECEMBER 2012 5

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eviews

BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols. St Nicolas Soloists; Choirs; City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Layton Hyperion CDA67946 ‘Allan Clayton makes the role of Nicolas entirely his own. What a glorious voice! I was reminded of the clarity of Wilfred Brown.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 74

PARRY Choral Works Amanda Roocroft sop BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Neeme Järvi Chandos CHAN10740 ‘Altogether the disc represents one of the most important Parry issues for many years, a credit to all the performers.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 80

MOZART Don Giovanni Soloists; Rastatt Vocal Ensemble; Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin DG 477 9878GH3 ‘From the fierce opening chords of the Overture to the moralising final ensemble, the pacing can’t be faulted.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 86

STEFFANI ‘Mission’ Cecilia Bartoli mez I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis Decca 478 4732DH ‘Cecilia Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project, which appears to be very much a personal labour of love.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 87

DVD/Blu-ray BERG Wozzeck Soloists; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis; Dmitri Tcherniakov dir Bel Air Classiques BAC068 ‘Everyone involved in this filming knows exactly where they are going and gets there triumphantly.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 84

gramophone.co.uk

Reissue/Archive MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter Music & Arts CD1264 ‘It’ll likely move you to tears and I have no hesitation whatever in naming this the pre-eminent “historic” Mahler Second.’

REVIEW ON PAGE 92

Reviewed in this month’s Gramophone: 54 concertos; 20 symphonies; 9 operas

ORCHESTRAL

Edward Gardner’s Lutosπawski exploration continues; Alan Gilbert tackles Nielsen; Gergiev’s Tchaikovsky First, Second and Third

CHAMBER

The Takács return to Schubert’s String Quintet with Kirshbaum; transatlantic Schumann Piano Quintets go head-to-head

INSTRUMENTAL

Wispelwey’s latest Bach Cello Suites; Xenakis’s organ classic Gmeeoorh; Tharaud’s take on ’20s Parisian nightlife

VOCAL

Haydn’s Nelson Mass from New College, Oxford; Mahler’s Totenfeier live from the South Bank; Anna-Caterina Antonacci at the Wigmore

OPERA

Handel’s Alessandro in two new recordings; BΔlohlávek’s Bartered Bride from the Barbican; Glyndebourne’s Meistersinger on DVD

BOOKS

An enthusiast’s tribute to the piano music of Maurice Ravel; a documentary history of Soviet music following the Revolution

REPLAY

Bruno Walter’s astonishing Mahler from New York; the Paganini Quartet play Beethoven; the art of Bronislav Gimpel

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE

This month’s specialist, Peter Dickinson, picks 10 of his favourite recordings of American symphonies of the early-20th century

THE GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood assesses the recorded legacy of Bach’s seasonal cantata collection, the Christmas Oratorio

GRAMOPHONE DECEMBER 2012 5

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