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CONTENTS Volume 97 Number 117 7 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 SUB EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 SUB EDITOR Marija ­uric´ Speare ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone / 020 7501 6689 PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee THANKS TO Charlotte Gardner, Hannah Nepilova, Edward Christian-Hare and Harriet Cochrane 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 Samuel Desborough / 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 Rè / 020 7501 6362 MARKETING MANAGER John Barnett / 020 7501 6233 MARKETING EXECUTIVE Hayley Sigrist / 020 7738 6459 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal 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 August 2019 issue of Gramophone is on sale from July 17; the September issue will be on sale from August 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 WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. 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, 2019. 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. Please read our privacy policy, by visiting privacypolicy.markallengroup.com. This will explain how we process, use & safeguard your data. 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 reviewed in this issue RECORDING OF THE MONTH Nicky Spence and Julius Drake give moving accounts of songs by Janá∂ek, including The Diary of One who Disappeared – haunting music, exquisitely performed ORCHESTRAL Outstanding Bartók from Helsinki; Lisa Jacobs plays Nielsen; Nino Rota’s film music; Sakari Oramo with a ‘Russian Masquerade’ CHAMBER Rachmaninov from Trio Wanderer; Fabio Biondi plays violin sonatas from 18th-century Italy INSTRUMENTAL Hilary Hahn showcases the music of García Abril; Bavouzet’s latest Haydn offering; Elizabeth Kenny plays music for the theorbo, both old and new VOCAL Renée Fleming’s return to Lieder; Dausgaard’s Sibelius; Les Éléments sing Iberian polyphony OPERA Thomas Arne’s The Judgment of Paris; Porpora and Handel in London; Vinci’s Siroe, re di Persia JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC ­ Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines LP ROUND-UP REISSUES Haydn symphonies and Offenbach operettas ­ BOX-SET ROUND-UP REPLAY A miscellany of maestros; Jascha Heifetz, live CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Charlotte Gardner and Richard Bratby reignite their mutual love affair with Rostropovich’s Dvo∑ák BOOKS Schoenberg’s life and works; a cellist’s memoir GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION A survey of Elgar’s First Symphony on record REVIEWS INDEX FOR THE RECORD All the latest classical music news, and more BALTIC CHORAL MUSIC Ivan Moody explores the profound spirituality and unique sound world of choral music from Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania – is there a common characteristic to all these works ? BENEDETTI EMBRACES JAZZ The Scottish violinist has recorded two works written for her by jazz supremo Wynton Marsalis and, as she tells Charlotte Gardner, they both fuse Celtic and jazz music in unimaginable ways LES ARTS FLORISSANTS AT Lindsay Kemp meets founder William Christie and alumnus-turned-conductor Paul Agnew and discovers that the Baroque vocal group is still pushing boundaries, 40 years after it began MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Richard Bratby meets the ever-probing harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani to discuss the challenge of recording Bach’s Toccatas ICONS Jeremy Nicholas pays tribute to the pianist Shura Cherkassky whose every recital was, for the audience, a case of ‘expect the unexpected’ CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Finding beauty through basic musical objects is Laurence Crane’s principal aim, says Paul Kilbey WHAT NEXT? Richard Strauss’s Salome is the starting point for Hugo Shirley’s eclectic listening journey, which takes in Saint-Saëns, Massenet and Zemlinsky PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Director Tom Morris on music in the theatre 4 GRAMOPHONE AUGUST 2019 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 97 Number 117 7 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 SUB EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 SUB EDITOR Marija ­uric´ Speare ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone / 020 7501 6689 PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee THANKS TO Charlotte Gardner, Hannah Nepilova, Edward Christian-Hare and Harriet Cochrane 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 Samuel Desborough / 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 Rè / 020 7501 6362 MARKETING MANAGER John Barnett / 020 7501 6233 MARKETING EXECUTIVE Hayley Sigrist / 020 7738 6459 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal 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 August 2019 issue of Gramophone is on sale from July 17; the September issue will be on sale from August 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 WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Gramophone, WN Shipping USA, 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. 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, 2019. 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. Please read our privacy policy, by visiting privacypolicy.markallengroup.com. This will explain how we process, use & safeguard your data. 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 reviewed in this issue

RECORDING OF THE MONTH Nicky Spence and Julius Drake give moving accounts of songs by Janá∂ek, including The Diary of One who Disappeared – haunting music, exquisitely performed

ORCHESTRAL

Outstanding Bartók from Helsinki; Lisa Jacobs plays Nielsen; Nino Rota’s film music; Sakari Oramo with a ‘Russian Masquerade’

CHAMBER

Rachmaninov from Trio Wanderer; Fabio Biondi plays violin sonatas from 18th-century Italy

INSTRUMENTAL

Hilary Hahn showcases the music of García Abril; Bavouzet’s latest Haydn offering; Elizabeth Kenny plays music for the theorbo, both old and new

VOCAL

Renée Fleming’s return to Lieder; Dausgaard’s Sibelius; Les Éléments sing Iberian polyphony

OPERA

Thomas Arne’s The Judgment of Paris; Porpora and Handel in London; Vinci’s Siroe, re di Persia

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

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Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

LP ROUND-UP

REISSUES

Haydn symphonies and Offenbach operettas

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BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

A miscellany of maestros; Jascha Heifetz, live

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Charlotte Gardner and Richard Bratby reignite their mutual love affair with Rostropovich’s Dvo∑ák

BOOKS

Schoenberg’s life and works; a cellist’s memoir

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION A survey of Elgar’s First Symphony on record

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

All the latest classical music news, and more

BALTIC CHORAL MUSIC Ivan Moody explores the profound spirituality and unique sound world of choral music from Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania – is there a common characteristic to all these works ?

BENEDETTI EMBRACES JAZZ The Scottish violinist has recorded two works written for her by jazz supremo Wynton Marsalis and, as she tells Charlotte Gardner, they both fuse Celtic and jazz music in unimaginable ways

LES ARTS FLORISSANTS AT Lindsay Kemp meets founder William Christie and alumnus-turned-conductor Paul Agnew and discovers that the Baroque vocal group is still pushing boundaries, 40 years after it began

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Richard Bratby meets the ever-probing harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani to discuss the challenge of recording Bach’s Toccatas

ICONS

Jeremy Nicholas pays tribute to the pianist Shura Cherkassky whose every recital was, for the audience, a case of ‘expect the unexpected’

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Finding beauty through basic musical objects is Laurence Crane’s principal aim, says Paul Kilbey

WHAT NEXT?

Richard Strauss’s Salome is the starting point for Hugo Shirley’s eclectic listening journey, which takes in Saint-Saëns, Massenet and Zemlinsky

PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Director Tom Morris on music in the theatre

4 GRAMOPHONE AUGUST 2019

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