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CONTENTS Volume 94 Number 11 43 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 Tim Parry / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 SUB EDITOR Marija ­uric´ Speare 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 Emma Baker, Hannah Nepil and Charlotte Gardner EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly ADVERTISING Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone.ads@markallengroup.com COMMERCIAL MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SALES EXECUTIVE Simon Davies / 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 Edward Craggs / 020 7501 6384 DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Matthew Cianfarani PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Paul Geoghegan CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen www.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 December issue of Gramophone is on sale from December 7; the January issue will be on sale from January 4 (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 £64. Printed in England by Southernprint. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in September by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, 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 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, 2016. 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. 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 of the month FOR THE RECORD The latest classical music news RECORDING OF THE MONTH Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet concludes his Beethoven sonata cycle on Chandos in style ORCHESTRAL Tamsin Waley-Cohen plays Adams and Harris violin concertos; masterful MacMillan from the BBC Scottish and Donald Runnicles; a new Nutcracker from Valery Gergiev CHAMBER The Jerusalem Quartet in Bartók; Pierre Fouchenneret and Romain Descharmes play Beethoven; the Brodsky’s complete Shostakovich INSTRUMENTAL Joseph Moog breezes through Chopin sonatas; scholarly Froberger from US harpsichordist Glen Wilson; a round-up of debut piano albums VOCAL Gesualdo madrigals; Jonas Kaufmann’s latest album; mixed sonnets from Johnson and Johnson; Carolyn Sampson’s exquisite French programme OPERA Contrasting Bellini DVDs; Alan Curtis’s final Handel recording; Franco Fagioli’s florid Rossini REISSUES De luxe opera sets and Muti’s Verdi; the Florilegium series on L’Oiseau-Lyre; the complete works of Bartók and other bargains REPLAY Charles Munch’s Boston legacy on RCA; the art of Hermann Scherchen; the Barylli Quartet BOOKS Peter Williams’s final Bach tome; the Overture Opera Guide to Bellini’s Norma GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Ivan Moody surveys the recording history of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil NEW RELEASES REVIEWS INDEX ALISON BALSOM Sarah Kirkup talks to the pioneering trumpeter about her new Christmas album and more CLARE COLLEGE Martin Cullingford visits Cambridge to discuss choral life with music director Graham Ross CRITICS’ CHOICE Our critics choose their personal favourites from the past 12 months of releases CHRISTMAS ROUND-UP Andrew Mellor casts an ear over this season’s festive offerings, some more traditional than others COMPETITIONS GUIDE Our guide to the greatest music competitions, and how fans across the world can tune in MUSICIAN & SCORE Masaaki Suzuki talks to David Vickers about Mozart’s unfinished C minor Mass ICONS Marc Rochester celebrates the enormous influence of British organist Simon Preston CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS The perennial appeal of John Rutter’s Christmasinfused music is rejoiced by Alexandra Coghlan CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Caroline Gill and Edward Breen revisit The Tallis Scholars’ recording of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE The Book of Psalms has been treated in multiple ways through the ages, finds Andrew Mellor PERFORMANCES & EVENTS The best live music on radio and online HIGH FIDELITY The latest developments in audio equipment LETTERS & OBITUARIES MY MUSIC Children’s author Julia Donaldson reflects on what classical music means to her 4 GRAMOPHONE DECEMBER 2016 gramophone.co.uk

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Volume 94 Number 11 43 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 Tim Parry / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 SUB EDITOR Marija ­uric´ Speare 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 Emma Baker, Hannah Nepil and Charlotte Gardner EDITOR IN CHIEF James Jolly

ADVERTISING Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone.ads@markallengroup.com COMMERCIAL MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SALES EXECUTIVE Simon Davies / 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 Edward Craggs / 020 7501 6384 DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Matthew Cianfarani PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Paul Geoghegan CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen www.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 December issue of Gramophone is on sale from December 7; the January issue will be on sale from January 4 (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 £64. Printed in England by Southernprint. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in September by MA Music Leisure & Travel Ltd, 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 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, 2016. 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. 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 of the month

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

RECORDING OF THE MONTH Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet concludes his Beethoven sonata cycle on Chandos in style

ORCHESTRAL

Tamsin Waley-Cohen plays Adams and Harris violin concertos; masterful MacMillan from the BBC Scottish and Donald Runnicles; a new Nutcracker from Valery Gergiev

CHAMBER

The Jerusalem Quartet in Bartók; Pierre Fouchenneret and Romain Descharmes play Beethoven; the Brodsky’s complete Shostakovich

INSTRUMENTAL

Joseph Moog breezes through Chopin sonatas; scholarly Froberger from US harpsichordist Glen Wilson; a round-up of debut piano albums

VOCAL

Gesualdo madrigals; Jonas Kaufmann’s latest album; mixed sonnets from Johnson and Johnson; Carolyn Sampson’s exquisite French programme

OPERA

Contrasting Bellini DVDs; Alan Curtis’s final Handel recording; Franco Fagioli’s florid Rossini

REISSUES

De luxe opera sets and Muti’s Verdi; the Florilegium series on L’Oiseau-Lyre; the complete works of Bartók and other bargains

REPLAY

Charles Munch’s Boston legacy on RCA; the art of Hermann Scherchen; the Barylli Quartet

BOOKS

Peter Williams’s final Bach tome; the Overture Opera Guide to Bellini’s Norma

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Ivan Moody surveys the recording history of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil

NEW RELEASES

REVIEWS INDEX

ALISON BALSOM

Sarah Kirkup talks to the pioneering trumpeter about her new Christmas album and more

CLARE COLLEGE

Martin Cullingford visits Cambridge to discuss choral life with music director Graham Ross

CRITICS’ CHOICE

Our critics choose their personal favourites from the past 12 months of releases

CHRISTMAS ROUND-UP Andrew Mellor casts an ear over this season’s festive offerings, some more traditional than others

COMPETITIONS GUIDE Our guide to the greatest music competitions, and how fans across the world can tune in

MUSICIAN & SCORE

Masaaki Suzuki talks to David Vickers about Mozart’s unfinished C minor Mass

ICONS

Marc Rochester celebrates the enormous influence of British organist Simon Preston

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS The perennial appeal of John Rutter’s Christmasinfused music is rejoiced by Alexandra Coghlan

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Caroline Gill and Edward Breen revisit The Tallis Scholars’ recording of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE The Book of Psalms has been treated in multiple ways through the ages, finds Andrew Mellor

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS The best live music on radio and online

HIGH FIDELITY

The latest developments in audio equipment

LETTERS & OBITUARIES MY MUSIC Children’s author Julia Donaldson reflects on what classical music means to her

4 GRAMOPHONE DECEMBER 2016

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