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CONTENTS Volume 95 Number 11 52 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 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 MANAGER 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 September issue of Gramophone is on sale from August 16; the Awards issue will be on sale from September 14 (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, 2017. 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 7 FOR THE RECORD The latest classical music news 8 RECORDING OF THE MONTH 46 Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe give lithe, lean and buoyant accounts of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies, with compelling results ORCHESTRAL 48 Muti’s Chicago Bruckner Ninth; Chineke!’s winning Dvo∑ák; Christian Poltéra shines in Martin≤ and Shostakovich; a Steinberg symphony CHAMBER 64 The Chiaroscuro Quartet play Haydn; Reger from Michael Collins; Avital meets Avital on DG INSTRUMENTAL Amir Katz plays Chopin Études; Marc-André Hamelin’s Feldman; lesser-known Widor 76 VOCAL 88 Choral music by David Bednall on Delphian; Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Sviridov; Vaughan Williams’s Scott of the Antarctic; a Weill double REISSUES 102 American pianist John Browning’s complete RCA albums; a birthday tribute to Gundula Janowitz OPERA 104 Pfitzner’s Die Rose vom Liebesgarten; Karajan’s 1978 Trovatore; Olga Peretyatko’s ‘Russian Light’ JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC 112 Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines REPLAY 114 Lili Kraus’s Mozart; vintage Beethoven from the Vlach Quartet BOOKS 116 A violin collection; Gerard Schwarz’s memoirs GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 122 Richard Whitehouse investigates the multiple versions of Stravinsky’s Les noces NEW RELEASES REVIEWS INDEX 142 144 BARBARA HANNIGAN In advance of releasing her first disc as a conductor, on Alpha, the soprano talks to Neil Fisher about new music and the importance of challenging an audience’s preconceptions 12 ELLIOTT CARTER Jed Distler examines the late flourishing of the long-lived American composer 18 GERARD SCHWARZ AT 70 24 As the conductor turns 70, Andrew FarachColton finds his enthusiasm still burns brightly AWARDS SHORTLIST We announce the top three albums in each of our 12 recording categories 28 SEASON PREVIEW 32 The key performances and events from the UK, Europe and North America in the 2017-18 season THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 62 Francesco Piemontesi discusses the challenges in Mozart’s C major Piano Concerto, K503 ICONS Tully Potter on the career of Ruggiero Ricci 74 CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 86 Andrew Mellor examines the work of Pe teris Vasks, whose music reflects his nation’s suffering CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 118 Two critics take a fresh look at Carlos Kleiber’s DG recording of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 120 Works associated with Paris’s IRCAM PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 128 The best live music on radio and online HIGH FIDELITY 131 Our monthly offering of audio news and reviews NOTES & LETTERS 140 Inspired by Nathan Milstein; reflections on Elgar MY MUSIC National Trust chairman Tim Parker 146 4 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2017 gramophone.co.uk
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Volume 95 Number 11 52 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 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 MANAGER 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 September issue of Gramophone is on sale from August 16; the Awards issue will be on sale from September 14 (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, 2017. 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

7

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

8

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 46 Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe give lithe, lean and buoyant accounts of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies, with compelling results

ORCHESTRAL

48

Muti’s Chicago Bruckner Ninth; Chineke!’s winning Dvo∑ák; Christian Poltéra shines in Martin≤ and Shostakovich; a Steinberg symphony

CHAMBER

64

The Chiaroscuro Quartet play Haydn; Reger from Michael Collins; Avital meets Avital on DG

INSTRUMENTAL

Amir Katz plays Chopin Études; Marc-André Hamelin’s Feldman; lesser-known Widor

76

VOCAL

88

Choral music by David Bednall on Delphian; Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Sviridov; Vaughan Williams’s Scott of the Antarctic; a Weill double

REISSUES

102

American pianist John Browning’s complete RCA albums; a birthday tribute to Gundula Janowitz

OPERA

104

Pfitzner’s Die Rose vom Liebesgarten; Karajan’s 1978 Trovatore; Olga Peretyatko’s ‘Russian Light’

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

112

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

REPLAY

114

Lili Kraus’s Mozart; vintage Beethoven from the Vlach Quartet

BOOKS

116

A violin collection; Gerard Schwarz’s memoirs

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 122 Richard Whitehouse investigates the multiple versions of Stravinsky’s Les noces

NEW RELEASES

REVIEWS INDEX

142

144

BARBARA HANNIGAN

In advance of releasing her first disc as a conductor, on Alpha, the soprano talks to Neil Fisher about new music and the importance of challenging an audience’s preconceptions

12

ELLIOTT CARTER

Jed Distler examines the late flourishing of the long-lived American composer

18

GERARD SCHWARZ AT 70 24 As the conductor turns 70, Andrew FarachColton finds his enthusiasm still burns brightly

AWARDS SHORTLIST

We announce the top three albums in each of our 12 recording categories

28

SEASON PREVIEW

32

The key performances and events from the UK, Europe and North America in the 2017-18 season

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 62 Francesco Piemontesi discusses the challenges in Mozart’s C major Piano Concerto, K503

ICONS

Tully Potter on the career of Ruggiero Ricci

74

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 86 Andrew Mellor examines the work of Pe teris Vasks, whose music reflects his nation’s suffering

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 118 Two critics take a fresh look at Carlos Kleiber’s DG recording of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 120 Works associated with Paris’s IRCAM

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 128 The best live music on radio and online

HIGH FIDELITY

131

Our monthly offering of audio news and reviews

NOTES & LETTERS

140

Inspired by Nathan Milstein; reflections on Elgar

MY MUSIC

National Trust chairman Tim Parker

146

4 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2017

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