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CONTENTS GRAMOPHONE is published by MA Business & Leisure Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com or subscriptions@markallengroup.com Volume 93 Number 1123 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup / 020 7501 6365 REVIEWS EDITOR Hugo Shirley / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE AND 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 Hannah Nepil, Marija �uric´ Speare and Andrew Mellor 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 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0800 137201 (UK) +44 (0)1722 716997 (overseas) subscriptions@markallengroup.com PUBLISHING Phone 020 7738 5454 HEAD OF MARKETING AND DIGITAL STRATEGY Luca Da Re / 020 7501 6362 MARKETING EXECUTIVE Julian Halse / 020 7501 6372 DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Matthew Cianfarani DATA AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Tom Pollard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Siân Harrington MANAGING DIRECTOR Jon Benson CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen © MA Business & Leisure Ltd, 2015. 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 June issue of Gramophone is on sale from May 21; the July issue will be on sale from June 19 (both UK, print editions only). 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 £60-£99. Printed in England by Wyndeham Heron. © 2015, MA Business & Leisure Limited. All rights reserved North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): 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. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, Worldnet Shipping Inc. (see above). Subscription records are maintained at MA Business and Leisure Ltd, Jesses Farm, Snow Hill, Dinton, Wiltshire SP3 5HN, UK. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent. EDITOR’S CHOICE The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month 7 FOR THE RECORD The latest classical music news 8 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE 10 As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first performance of Tristan und Isolde, Hugo Shirley reflects on the profound impact that Wagner’s masterpiece had on the history of opera GRAMOPHONE HALL OF FAME 16 We reveal the 10 artists who have been elected by Gramophone readers to enter the Hall of Fame 2015, with commendations from their peers and suggested recordings relating to each entry RECORDING OF THE MONTH 22 Revelatory Schubert from András Schiff on ECM ORCHESTRAL 24 Brahms and Bruch from David Garrett; Nelsons’s Manfred; Mahler Ninths from Elder and Fischer; Vivaldi played and sung by Dmitry Sinkovsky CHAMBER Schubert chamber works from Tasmin Little; Andreas Ottensamer explores Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Connection’; Phantasm’s Lawes 46 INSTRUMENTAL 64 Mahan Esfahani’s Archiv debut; Lisitsa plays Glass; Sapellnikoff rediscovered; Grieg from Stephen Hough; Sergey Schepkin’s Bach French Suites VOCAL 76 Original St Matthew Passions from Seymour and Egarr; Brahms and Dvo∑ák Requiems from Norrington and Herreweghe; McCreesh’s L’allegro REISSUES 88 Three new box-sets celebrating the 90th birthday of conductor and composer Pierre Boulez OPERA 90 Opera Rara’s Les martyrs; The Royal Opera’s Vêpres siciliennes; a ‘complete’ Guillaume Tell from Bad Wildbad; Gergiev conducts Shchedrin REPLAY Rare Stokowski 78s on Music & Arts; Enescu, Stravinsky and Glazunov on the podium 96 BOOKS 98 Peter Quantrill on a collection of essays exploring Brahms in domestic and public spheres; John Warrack on a celebration of Sir Charles Mackerras GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 A survey of the different recorded versions of Haydn’s Drumroll Symphony THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 44 Conductor Iván Fischer shares the intricacies of the score of Mahler’s last completed work – the Ninth Symphony – with writer Rebecca Schmid ICONS The soprano Elizabeth Watts pays tribute to a singer of another era, Gundula Janowitz, whose distinctive voice continues to inspire 62 CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 74 One of the most popular living composers, Jennifer Higdon’s open-hearted music welcomes all listeners, discovers Andrew Farach-Colton CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs with George Szell is reappraised by Mike Ashman and David Patrick Stearns THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 Jeremy Nicholas recommends 10 works inspired by the British Royal Family, past and present PLAYLISTS 110 Alice in Wonderland-inspired tracks; music evoking love and death; English experimentalism PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 113 The best classical music concerts worldwide HIGH FIDELITY 115 Reviews of Classé’s Sigma SSP and AMP 2, and Onkyo’s C-N7050 CD/network music player LETTERS & OBITUARIES 124 NEW RELEASES 126 REVIEWS INDEX 128 MY MUSIC 130 Cathy Newman, the Channel 4 News anchor, on learning the violin and the marvel of Mutter 4 GRAMOPHONE JUNE 2015 gramophone.co.uk

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GRAMOPHONE is published by MA Business & Leisure Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com or subscriptions@markallengroup.com Volume 93 Number 1123 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup / 020 7501 6365 REVIEWS EDITOR Hugo Shirley / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE AND 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 Hannah Nepil, Marija �uric´ Speare and Andrew Mellor 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

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0800 137201 (UK) +44 (0)1722 716997 (overseas) subscriptions@markallengroup.com

PUBLISHING Phone 020 7738 5454 HEAD OF MARKETING AND DIGITAL STRATEGY Luca Da Re / 020 7501 6362 MARKETING EXECUTIVE Julian Halse / 020 7501 6372 DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Matthew Cianfarani DATA AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Tom Pollard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Siân Harrington MANAGING DIRECTOR Jon Benson CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen

© MA Business & Leisure Ltd, 2015. 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 June issue of Gramophone is on sale from May 21; the July issue will be on sale from June 19 (both UK, print editions only). 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 £60-£99. Printed in England by Wyndeham Heron. © 2015, MA Business & Leisure Limited. All rights reserved North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): 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. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, Worldnet Shipping Inc. (see above). Subscription records are maintained at MA Business and Leisure Ltd, Jesses Farm, Snow Hill, Dinton, Wiltshire SP3 5HN, UK. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month

7

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

8

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

10

As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first performance of Tristan und Isolde, Hugo Shirley reflects on the profound impact that Wagner’s masterpiece had on the history of opera

GRAMOPHONE HALL OF FAME 16 We reveal the 10 artists who have been elected by Gramophone readers to enter the Hall of Fame 2015, with commendations from their peers and suggested recordings relating to each entry

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 22 Revelatory Schubert from András Schiff on ECM

ORCHESTRAL

24

Brahms and Bruch from David Garrett; Nelsons’s Manfred; Mahler Ninths from Elder and Fischer; Vivaldi played and sung by Dmitry Sinkovsky

CHAMBER

Schubert chamber works from Tasmin Little; Andreas Ottensamer explores Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Connection’; Phantasm’s Lawes

46

INSTRUMENTAL

64

Mahan Esfahani’s Archiv debut; Lisitsa plays Glass; Sapellnikoff rediscovered; Grieg from Stephen Hough; Sergey Schepkin’s Bach French Suites

VOCAL

76

Original St Matthew Passions from Seymour and Egarr; Brahms and Dvo∑ák Requiems from Norrington and Herreweghe; McCreesh’s L’allegro

REISSUES

88

Three new box-sets celebrating the 90th birthday of conductor and composer Pierre Boulez

OPERA

90

Opera Rara’s Les martyrs; The Royal Opera’s Vêpres siciliennes; a ‘complete’ Guillaume Tell from Bad Wildbad; Gergiev conducts Shchedrin

REPLAY

Rare Stokowski 78s on Music & Arts; Enescu, Stravinsky and Glazunov on the podium

96

BOOKS

98

Peter Quantrill on a collection of essays exploring Brahms in domestic and public spheres; John Warrack on a celebration of Sir Charles Mackerras

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 A survey of the different recorded versions of Haydn’s Drumroll Symphony

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 44 Conductor Iván Fischer shares the intricacies of the score of Mahler’s last completed work – the Ninth Symphony – with writer Rebecca Schmid

ICONS

The soprano Elizabeth Watts pays tribute to a singer of another era, Gundula Janowitz, whose distinctive voice continues to inspire

62

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 74 One of the most popular living composers, Jennifer Higdon’s open-hearted music welcomes all listeners, discovers Andrew Farach-Colton

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs with George Szell is reappraised by Mike Ashman and David Patrick Stearns

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 Jeremy Nicholas recommends 10 works inspired by the British Royal Family, past and present

PLAYLISTS

110

Alice in Wonderland-inspired tracks; music evoking love and death; English experimentalism

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 113 The best classical music concerts worldwide

HIGH FIDELITY

115

Reviews of Classé’s Sigma SSP and AMP 2, and Onkyo’s C-N7050 CD/network music player

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 124 NEW RELEASES 126 REVIEWS INDEX 128 MY MUSIC 130 Cathy Newman, the Channel 4 News anchor, on learning the violin and the marvel of Mutter

4 GRAMOPHONE JUNE 2015

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