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CONTENTS Volume 98 Number 1190 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 Hannah Nepilova 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 SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Gordana Jevic´ / 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 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Kyri Apostolou CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Bethany Foy / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford MANAGING 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 2020 issue of Gramophone is on sale from July 22; the September issue will be on sale from August 19 (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 £70. Printed in England by Walstead Roche. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in October 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, 2020. 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 Tim Ashley welcomes a fine recording of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (The Prisoner), the concentrated and potent opera written at the end of the Second World War, from Gianandrea Noseda and his superb Danish forces ORCHESTRAL Beethoven symphonies from Malmö under Robert Trevino; Lawrence Power plays MacMillan’s Viola Concerto; Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko’s Oslo forces; Martin Fröst plays Vivaldi CHAMBER The Chiaroscuro Quartet plays Haydn; Baroque delights from Jean Rondeau and Thomas Dunford INSTRUMENTAL Trevor Pinnock’s Bach; Zoltán Fejérvári impresses in Schumann; Mari Kodama plays Beethoven VOCAL Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano join forces in Beethoven; Cappella Amsterdam sing motets by Lassus; choral music by Owain Park OPERA Franco Fagioli celebrates the music of Leonardo Vinci; a coloratura album from Sarah Traubel JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines REISSUES Bumper Barbirolli boxes; 20th-century composers from the Fromm Music Foundation REPLAY A Decca Eloquence batch; Willem Mengelberg CLASSICS RECONSIDERED David Vickers and Lindsay Kemp compare notes on Christopher Hogwood’s Mozart symphonies BOOKS A memoir from Philip Kennicott; Mahler’s Eighth GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Edward Seckerson takes stock of the available recordings of Bernstein’s Mass REVIEWS INDEX FOR THE RECORD All the latest classical music news MUSIC AT HOME   Editor Martin Cullingford introduces our special focus on online concerts and opera. Where has the growth of online music reached – and where will it lead us next? BERLIN IS WHERE IT’S AT   James Jolly discovers why, and how, Berlin has been a pioneer when it comes to connecting audiences online – from the Berlin Phil’s Digital Concert Hall to Daniel Hope’s Hope@Home LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Sarah Kirkup learns how a musical experience transfers from venue to screen, and how the role of video director is key to the whole experience AUDIO GUIDE Boost your sound to emulate the live event MAX BRUCH: HIDDEN GENIUS Ahead of the centenary of the composer’s death, Andrew Mellor looks beyond the violin concertos and finds some undiscovered gems MUSICIAN AND SCORE David Patrick Stearns speaks to Ian Bostridge about recording Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte ICONS Reviews Editor Tim Parry assesses the legacy of Soviet pianist Youri Egorov, who died at just 33 CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER James McCarthy appraises Hildur Gu²nadóttir, the sought-after Icelandic composer and cellist WHAT NEXT? Peter Quantrill takes Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex as the starting point for an eclectic listening journey HIGH FIDELITY     LETTERS AND OBITUARIES   NEW RELEASES    MY BEETHOVEN    The Southbank’s Gillian Moore recalls the visceral impact of Beethoven’s music as a child 4 GRAMOPHONE AUGUST 2020 gramophone.co.uk

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CONTENTS Volume 98 Number 1190 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 Hannah Nepilova 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 SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Gordana Jevic´ / 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 GROUP INSTITUTIONAL SALES MANAGER Jas Atwal PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Kyri Apostolou CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Bethany Foy / 01722 716997 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Martin Cullingford MANAGING 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 2020 issue of Gramophone is on sale from July 22; the September issue will be on sale from August 19 (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 £70. Printed in England by Walstead Roche. North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in October 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, 2020. 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 Tim Ashley welcomes a fine recording of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (The Prisoner), the concentrated and potent opera written at the end of the Second World War, from Gianandrea Noseda and his superb Danish forces

ORCHESTRAL

Beethoven symphonies from Malmö under Robert Trevino; Lawrence Power plays MacMillan’s Viola Concerto; Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko’s Oslo forces; Martin Fröst plays Vivaldi

CHAMBER

The Chiaroscuro Quartet plays Haydn; Baroque delights from Jean Rondeau and Thomas Dunford

INSTRUMENTAL

Trevor Pinnock’s Bach; Zoltán Fejérvári impresses in Schumann; Mari Kodama plays Beethoven

VOCAL

Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano join forces in Beethoven; Cappella Amsterdam sing motets by Lassus; choral music by Owain Park

OPERA

Franco Fagioli celebrates the music of Leonardo Vinci; a coloratura album from Sarah Traubel

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

REISSUES

Bumper Barbirolli boxes; 20th-century composers from the Fromm Music Foundation

REPLAY

A Decca Eloquence batch; Willem Mengelberg

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED David Vickers and Lindsay Kemp compare notes on Christopher Hogwood’s Mozart symphonies

BOOKS

A memoir from Philip Kennicott; Mahler’s Eighth

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Edward Seckerson takes stock of the available recordings of Bernstein’s Mass

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

All the latest classical music news

MUSIC AT HOME   Editor Martin Cullingford introduces our special focus on online concerts and opera. Where has the growth of online music reached – and where will it lead us next? BERLIN IS WHERE IT’S AT   James Jolly discovers why, and how, Berlin has been a pioneer when it comes to connecting audiences online – from the Berlin Phil’s Digital Concert Hall to Daniel Hope’s Hope@Home LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Sarah Kirkup learns how a musical experience transfers from venue to screen, and how the role of video director is key to the whole experience AUDIO GUIDE Boost your sound to emulate the live event

MAX BRUCH: HIDDEN GENIUS Ahead of the centenary of the composer’s death, Andrew Mellor looks beyond the violin concertos and finds some undiscovered gems

MUSICIAN AND SCORE

David Patrick Stearns speaks to Ian Bostridge about recording Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte

ICONS

Reviews Editor Tim Parry assesses the legacy of Soviet pianist Youri Egorov, who died at just 33

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER James McCarthy appraises Hildur Gu²nadóttir, the sought-after Icelandic composer and cellist WHAT NEXT? Peter Quantrill takes Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex as the starting point for an eclectic listening journey HIGH FIDELITY     LETTERS AND OBITUARIES   NEW RELEASES    MY BEETHOVEN    The Southbank’s Gillian Moore recalls the visceral impact of Beethoven’s music as a child

4 GRAMOPHONE AUGUST 2020

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