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CONTENTS Volume 95 Number 11 60 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 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 April 2018 issue of Gramophone is on sale from March 28; the May issue will be on sale from April 25 (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, 2018. 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 RECORDING OF THE MONTH 50 Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio forces give inspiring and richly detailed accounts of Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Symphonic Dances ORCHESTRAL Bartók violin concertos from Renaud Capuçon; Rattle’s Haydn Journey; a soundtrack to Howards End; Yevgeny Sudbin plays Rachmaninov 52 CHAMBER 70 Brahms sonatas from Tasmin Little; the Doric Quartet’s Haydn; a round-up of piano trio discs INSTRUMENTAL 82 Joseph Kelemen’s monumental Bach; Pavel Kolesnikov plays Couperin; Tiempo’s ‘Legacy’ VOCAL 94 William Christie records Bach’s B minor Mass; Benjamin Appl sings Brahms; Gounod cantatas and sacred works; Sophie Bevan at Wigmore Hall OPERA 108 Porpora’s Germanico in Germania; a Rossini rarity; a pair of star-attraction Verdi albums JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC 116 Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines REISSUES 118 ‘Complete’ Debussy on DG and Warner Classics; a tribute to Christa Ludwig; André Tchaikowsky BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY Bruckner boxes; Kurt Sanderling Edition 123 124 CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 126 Two of our reviewers put Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Symphony No 7 under the spotlight BOOKS Beethoven and the cello; a detailed study of Liszt’s symphonic poems 128 GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 130 Richard Wigmore surveys the recorded history of Handel’s Saul and recommends a top version REVIEWS INDEX 152 FOR THE RECORD The latest classical music news 8 TICCIATI ON BRAHMS 14 Robin Ticciati discusses recording Brahms symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and his new position at the DSO in Berlin HAYDN AND BEYOND As Paul Lewis embarks on a project to record Haydn’s piano sonatas, he discusses repertoire past and present 20 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2018 24 Everything you need to know about festivals large and small to plan your summer concert-going THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 68 Pierre-Laurent Aimard discusses the unique challenges posed by Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux ICONS A look at the tragically short career of the magnificent French violinist Ginette Neveu 80 CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 92 Richard Whitehouse explores the music of the influential German composer York Höller MUSICAL CONNECTIONS 101 James Jolly offers a listening list of Debussyinspired composers, then sets out to sea with British works inspired by the waves THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 106 Ten ballet scores compiled from earlier music PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS 136 Live music listings, plus reviews of Jonathan Harvey’s Bhakti and a rare Gluck performance HIGH FIDELITY 139 Our monthly offering of audio news and reviews NOTES & LETTERS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Dancer Akram Khan’s musical choices 148 150 154 4 GRAMOPHONE APRIL 2018 gramophone.co.uk
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NEW RELEASES ON WARNER CLASSICS AND ERATO JOYCE DIDONATO GREAT SCOTT Life meets art as Joyce DiDonato stars in the world-premiere recording of Great Scott, a new opera written especially for her by Jake Heggie. AUGUSTIN HADELICH PAGANINI: 24 CAPRICES Winner in 2015 of the inaugural Warner Music Prize, Hadelich releases his first recording for Warner Classics: Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin. ALEXANDRE THARAUD & JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS BRAHMS: SONATAS Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras in a programme of two Brahms cello sonatas and Hungarian Dance transcriptions. EDGAR MOREAU & DAVID KADOUCH SONATAS Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch in a programme of sonatas by Franck, Poulenc, Rita Strohl and Fernand de La Tombelle. PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS This pairing of concertos Nos 25 and 27, recorded with Chamber Orchestra of Europe is Piotr Anderszewski’s third album of Mozart concertos. GAUTIER CAPUÇON INTUITION A captivating album of short pieces brining together muchloved lollipops by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Elgar. RENAUD CAPUCON BARTOK: VIOLIN CONCERTOS Renaud Capuçon expands his wide-ranging concerto discography performing Bartók with the London Symphony Orchestra under François-Xavier Roth. KYUNG WHA CHUNG FRANCK & DEBUSSY SONATAS The centrepiece of this Frenchthemed recital by legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung is the splendid violin sonata by César Franck. LES VENTS FRANCAIS FEAT. EMMANUEL PAHUD CONCERTANTE! The members of Les Vents Français, which has been described as “the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup” in five examples of the sinfonia concertante. DAVID AARON CARPENTER MOTHERLAND The star violist brings together concertos by Dvorˇák, Bartók, Walton and a dance cycle by contemporary composer Alexey Shor.

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Volume 95 Number 11 60 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 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 April 2018 issue of Gramophone is on sale from March 28; the May issue will be on sale from April 25 (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, 2018. 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

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 50 Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio forces give inspiring and richly detailed accounts of Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Symphonic Dances

ORCHESTRAL

Bartók violin concertos from Renaud Capuçon; Rattle’s Haydn Journey; a soundtrack to Howards End; Yevgeny Sudbin plays Rachmaninov

52

CHAMBER

70

Brahms sonatas from Tasmin Little; the Doric Quartet’s Haydn; a round-up of piano trio discs

INSTRUMENTAL

82

Joseph Kelemen’s monumental Bach; Pavel Kolesnikov plays Couperin; Tiempo’s ‘Legacy’

VOCAL

94

William Christie records Bach’s B minor Mass; Benjamin Appl sings Brahms; Gounod cantatas and sacred works; Sophie Bevan at Wigmore Hall

OPERA

108

Porpora’s Germanico in Germania; a Rossini rarity; a pair of star-attraction Verdi albums

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

116

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

REISSUES

118

‘Complete’ Debussy on DG and Warner Classics; a tribute to Christa Ludwig; André Tchaikowsky

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Bruckner boxes; Kurt Sanderling Edition

123

124

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 126 Two of our reviewers put Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Symphony No 7 under the spotlight

BOOKS

Beethoven and the cello; a detailed study of Liszt’s symphonic poems

128

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 130 Richard Wigmore surveys the recorded history of Handel’s Saul and recommends a top version

REVIEWS INDEX

152

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

8

TICCIATI ON BRAHMS

14

Robin Ticciati discusses recording Brahms symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and his new position at the DSO in Berlin

HAYDN AND BEYOND

As Paul Lewis embarks on a project to record Haydn’s piano sonatas, he discusses repertoire past and present

20

FESTIVAL GUIDE 2018

24

Everything you need to know about festivals large and small to plan your summer concert-going

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 68 Pierre-Laurent Aimard discusses the unique challenges posed by Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux

ICONS

A look at the tragically short career of the magnificent French violinist Ginette Neveu

80

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 92 Richard Whitehouse explores the music of the influential German composer York Höller

MUSICAL CONNECTIONS 101 James Jolly offers a listening list of Debussyinspired composers, then sets out to sea with British works inspired by the waves

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 106 Ten ballet scores compiled from earlier music

PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS 136 Live music listings, plus reviews of Jonathan Harvey’s Bhakti and a rare Gluck performance

HIGH FIDELITY

139

Our monthly offering of audio news and reviews

NOTES & LETTERS

NEW RELEASES

MY MUSIC

Dancer Akram Khan’s musical choices

148

150

154

4 GRAMOPHONE APRIL 2018

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