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CONTENTS GRAMOPHONE is published by Mark Allen Group, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com Volume 91 Number 1106 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup / 020 7501 6365 REVIEWS EDITOR Andrew Mellor / 020 7501 6367 FEATURES EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB-EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone / 020 7501 6689 PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson / 020 7501 6369 AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee LIBRARIAN Richard Farr THANKS TO Marija �uric´ Speare and Hannah Nepil EDITOR-IN-CHIEF James Jolly ADVERTISING Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone.ads@markallengroup.com SALES MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Luke Battersby / 020 7501 6373 DISPLAY SALES EXECUTIVE Oli Galvin / 020 7501 6363 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0844 848 8823 (UK) +44 (0)1795 592980 (overseas) gramophone@servicehelpline.co.uk PUBLISHING Phone 020 7738 5454 BRAND MANAGER Luca Da Re / 020 7501 6362 PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE Rachel Cramond / 020 7501 6372 DIGITAL AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Matthew Cianfarani DATA AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Tom Pollard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne SUBSCRIPTIONS DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 GROUP COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR Jon Benson PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Sian Harrington CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen © MA Business & Leisure Ltd, 2014. All rights reserved. ISSN 1350-9829. MA Business & Leisure Ltd is part of the Mark Allen Group www.markallengroup.com The paper used within this publication has been sourced from Chain-of-Custody certified manufacturers, operating within international environmental standards, to ensure sustainable sourcing of the raw materials, sustainable production and to minimise our carbon footprint. The February issue of Gramophone is on sale from January 30; the March issue will be on sale from February 27 (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. Printed in England by Wyndeham Heron. ISSN 0017-310X. © 2014, MA Business & Leisure Limited. All rights reserved North American edition: Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in September by MA Business and Leisure Limited, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. The US annual subscription price is $89. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by agent named Air Business, c/o Worldnet Shipping Inc., 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. Subscription records are maintained at Dovetail Services (UK) Limited, 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU United Kingdom. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent. EDITOR’S CHOICE The 12 best recordings of the month, featuring repertoire from Corelli to Ligeti FOR THE RECORD The latest classical music news 7 8 RICHARD STRAUSS AT 150 10 In Strauss’s 150th anniversary year, Michael Kennedy, author of two books on the composer, surveys Strauss’s legacy and questions why his greatest achievements are yet to be fully understood STRAUSS’S GREATEST ROLES 14 Mike Ashman introduces six of Strauss’s greatest operatic roles – all created for women – and the singers who have best embodied them on record RECORDING OF THE MONTH 26 Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin play Beethoven ORCHESTRAL Serebrier’s latest Dvo∑ák from Bournemouth; a collaborative film score from Philip Glass; a new orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures 28 CHAMBER 44 Hummel and Schubert on period instruments; the complete string trios of Julius Röntgen; transfigured Bach, Geminiani and Marini EDUCATION FOCUS 21 Caroline Gill explores the opportunities that being a chorister brings – opportunities that are, increasingly, becoming open to girls as well as boys THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 42 Edward Gardner analyses the intricacies of Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony, a work he has just recorded for Chandos ICONS 52 Bryce Morrison champions the inimitable Alfred Cortot, a pianist who, despite his tendency to be ‘careless’, is still one of the greats INSTRUMENTAL 54 Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach; piano music by a senior Isserlis; the live legacy of Samson François; new recordings from piano competition winners VOCAL 66 Beethoven from San Francisco; Leeds Cathedral forces survey Duruflé’s sacred music; Philippe Jordan conducts Verdi’s Requiem in Paris REISSUES Fritz Reiner’s recorded legacy with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 78 OPERA 80 Paul Daniel conducts Britten with the Royal Opera and ENO; Handel’s Orlando in Canada; Jonathan Kent’s Die Frau on DVD from the Mariinsky REPLAY Verdi and Wagner from New York; Furtwängler conducts Otello in Vienna 88 BOOKS 90 Peter Dickinson reviews a new anthology of Bernstein’s correspondence; Jeremy Nicholas on a new biography of Hamilton Harty GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 96 Hugo Shirley surveys the key recordings of Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 64 Philip Clark has always admired the music of Helmut Lachenmann – but why don’t more listeners treat his work with the serious devotion that it deserves? CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 92 Critics Mike Ashman and Peter Quantrill weigh up the pros and cons of Bruno Walter’s classic 1938 recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 94 David Threasher chooses his top 10 piano quintet recordings THE SCENE The best classical music concerts worldwide 102 HIGH FIDELITY 105 Reviews of NEAT’s new floorstanding speakers and ATC’s all-in-one system LETTERS & OBITUARIES 115 NEW RELEASES 118 REVIEWS INDEX 120 MY MUSIC 122 Zeb Soanes, the voice of Radio 4 news and the Shipping Forecast, on playing the Voice of God 4 GRAMOPHONE FEBRUARY 2014 gramophone.co.uk
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GRAMOPHONE is published by Mark Allen Group, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com Volume 91 Number 1106 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup / 020 7501 6365 REVIEWS EDITOR Andrew Mellor / 020 7501 6367 FEATURES EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB-EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone / 020 7501 6689 PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson / 020 7501 6369 AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee LIBRARIAN Richard Farr THANKS TO Marija �uric´ Speare and Hannah Nepil EDITOR-IN-CHIEF James Jolly

ADVERTISING Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone.ads@markallengroup.com SALES MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Luke Battersby / 020 7501 6373 DISPLAY SALES EXECUTIVE Oli Galvin / 020 7501 6363

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0844 848 8823 (UK) +44 (0)1795 592980 (overseas) gramophone@servicehelpline.co.uk

PUBLISHING Phone 020 7738 5454 BRAND MANAGER Luca Da Re / 020 7501 6362 PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE Rachel Cramond / 020 7501 6372 DIGITAL AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Matthew Cianfarani DATA AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Tom Pollard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne SUBSCRIPTIONS DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 GROUP COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR Jon Benson PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Sian Harrington CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen

© MA Business & Leisure Ltd, 2014. All rights reserved. ISSN 1350-9829. MA Business & Leisure Ltd is part of the Mark Allen Group www.markallengroup.com

The paper used within this publication has been sourced from Chain-of-Custody certified manufacturers, operating within international environmental standards, to ensure sustainable sourcing of the raw materials, sustainable production and to minimise our carbon footprint.

The February issue of Gramophone is on sale from January 30; the March issue will be on sale from February 27 (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. Printed in England by Wyndeham Heron. ISSN 0017-310X. © 2014, MA Business & Leisure Limited. All rights reserved North American edition: Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in September by MA Business and Leisure Limited, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. The US annual subscription price is $89. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by agent named Air Business, c/o Worldnet Shipping Inc., 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. Subscription records are maintained at Dovetail Services (UK) Limited, 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU United Kingdom. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 best recordings of the month, featuring repertoire from Corelli to Ligeti

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

7

8

RICHARD STRAUSS AT 150 10 In Strauss’s 150th anniversary year, Michael Kennedy, author of two books on the composer, surveys Strauss’s legacy and questions why his greatest achievements are yet to be fully understood

STRAUSS’S GREATEST ROLES 14 Mike Ashman introduces six of Strauss’s greatest operatic roles – all created for women – and the singers who have best embodied them on record

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 26 Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin play Beethoven

ORCHESTRAL

Serebrier’s latest Dvo∑ák from Bournemouth; a collaborative film score from Philip Glass; a new orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures

28

CHAMBER

44

Hummel and Schubert on period instruments; the complete string trios of Julius Röntgen; transfigured Bach, Geminiani and Marini

EDUCATION FOCUS

21

Caroline Gill explores the opportunities that being a chorister brings – opportunities that are, increasingly, becoming open to girls as well as boys

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 42 Edward Gardner analyses the intricacies of Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony, a work he has just recorded for Chandos

ICONS

52

Bryce Morrison champions the inimitable Alfred Cortot, a pianist who, despite his tendency to be ‘careless’, is still one of the greats

INSTRUMENTAL

54

Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach; piano music by a senior Isserlis; the live legacy of Samson François; new recordings from piano competition winners

VOCAL

66

Beethoven from San Francisco; Leeds Cathedral forces survey Duruflé’s sacred music; Philippe Jordan conducts Verdi’s Requiem in Paris

REISSUES

Fritz Reiner’s recorded legacy with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

78

OPERA

80

Paul Daniel conducts Britten with the Royal Opera and ENO; Handel’s Orlando in Canada; Jonathan Kent’s Die Frau on DVD from the Mariinsky

REPLAY

Verdi and Wagner from New York; Furtwängler conducts Otello in Vienna

88

BOOKS

90

Peter Dickinson reviews a new anthology of Bernstein’s correspondence; Jeremy Nicholas on a new biography of Hamilton Harty

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 96 Hugo Shirley surveys the key recordings of Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 64 Philip Clark has always admired the music of Helmut Lachenmann – but why don’t more listeners treat his work with the serious devotion that it deserves?

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 92 Critics Mike Ashman and Peter Quantrill weigh up the pros and cons of Bruno Walter’s classic 1938 recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 94 David Threasher chooses his top 10 piano quintet recordings

THE SCENE

The best classical music concerts worldwide

102

HIGH FIDELITY

105

Reviews of NEAT’s new floorstanding speakers and ATC’s all-in-one system

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 115 NEW RELEASES 118 REVIEWS INDEX 120 MY MUSIC 122 Zeb Soanes, the voice of Radio 4 news and the Shipping Forecast, on playing the Voice of God

4 GRAMOPHONE FEBRUARY 2014

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