Page 4

CONTENTS

GRAMOPHONE is published by MA Business & Leisure Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB, United Kingdom. gramophone.co.uk email gramophone@markallengroup.com or subscriptions@markallengroup.com Volume 92 Number 1118 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 Andrew Mellor / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE AND FEATURES EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB-EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 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 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF James Jolly

ADVERTISING Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone.ads@markallengroup.com SALES MANAGER Esther Zuke / 020 7501 6368 SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Luke Battersby / 020 7501 6373

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK ISSUES 0800 137201 (UK) +44 (0)1722 716997 (overseas) subscriptions@markallengroup.com

PUBLISHING Phone 020 7738 5454 GROUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Luca Da Re / 020 7501 6362 MARKETING EXECUTIVE Julian Halse / 020 7501 6372 DIGITAL AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Matthew Cianfarani DATA AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Tom Pollard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Hamshere / 01722 716997 PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Redmayne CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Sally Boettcher / 01722 716997 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Chris Hoskins / 01722 716997 PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Siân Harrington CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ben Allen CHAIRMAN Mark Allen

The paper used within this publication has been sourced from Chain-of-Custody certified manufacturers, operating within international environmental standards, to ensure sustainable sourcing of the raw materials, sustainable production and to minimise our carbon footprint.

The January issue of Gramophone is on sale from January 4; the February issue will be on sale from January 30 (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 £60-£99. Printed in England by Wyndeham Heron. © 2015, MA Business & Leisure Limited. All rights reserved North American edition (ISSN 0017-310X): Gramophone, USPS 881080, is published monthly with an additional issue in September by MA Business and Leisure Limited, 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 Business and Leisure Ltd, Jesses Farm, Snow Hill, Dinton, Wiltshire SP3 5HN, UK. Air Business Ltd is acting as our mailing agent.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

WINTERREISE

Richard Wigmore speaks to Mark Padmore, Jonas Kaufmann, Ian Bostridge, Christoph Prégardien, Gerald Finley and others about the daunting challenge of recording Schubert’s spinechilling winter’s journey

MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS 16 As the great American conductor turns 70, Richard S Ginell looks back at MTT’s two decades with the San Francisco Symphony and his ambitious plans for the future

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 22 Les Arts Florissants turn to Monteverdi

ORCHESTRAL

Hannu Lintu’s blistering Berio; new music by Charlotte Bray, Anders Koppel and Erkki-Sven Tüür; cello concertos from London and São Paulo

CHAMBER

Captain Tobias Hume docks on Alpha records; Vivaldi from Baltic Baroque; Rimsky’s Scheherazade scored for chamber ensemble

INSTRUMENTAL

John Butt’s Well-Tempered Clavier; Pizarro’s ‘complete’ Rachmaninov cycle begins; exploring Peruvian guitar manuscripts discovered in Bolivia

VOCAL

Byrd’s monolith Infelix ego from Herreweghe; Elgar’s collaborations with Laurence Binyon; French song from Stéphanie d’Oustrac

REISSUES

Big box-sets from major maestros, including ‘Pierres’ Boulez and Monteux

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 42 The New York Philharmonic’s Music Director, Alan Gilbert, talks to Andrew Mellor about the fascinating score to Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony

ICONS

American soprano Leontyne Price was one of the great Verdi singers of the 20th century, David Patrick Stearns looks back at her remarkable career

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 64 James McCarthy looks at the breakthrough works of one of the most popular and frequently performed composers of our time: John Adams

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 Kathleen Ferrier’s 1952 account of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic comes under the spotlight

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 Michael White chooses 10 recordings that best epitomise the Choral Evensong tradition

PLAYLISTS

110

A Liszt list; music and travel; works in E flat major

OPERA

Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet setting from San Francisco; ‘Siroe’ operas by Handel and Hasse; Pavarotti on DVD in the Met’s Rigoletto

REPLAY

Latest batch of ‘Icons’ boxes from Warner; six decades of recordings from the Opéra de Paris

BOOKS

Jeff Warren’s Cambridge study Music and Ethical Responsibility; Robert Spruytenburg’s conversations with the LaSalle Quartet

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 David Gutman recommends the most exceptional recordings of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 113 The best streamed or broadcast events worldwide

HIGH FIDELITY

115

Hi-fi highlights of 2014; introducing mu-so by Naim; Yamaha’s new network CD player

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 124 NEW RELEASES 126 REVIEWS INDEX 128 MY MUSIC 130 Actor Roger Allam discusses his lifelong interest in classical music and reveals the recording he favours above all others

4 GRAMOPHONE JANUARY 2015

gramophone.co.uk