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IN THIS ISSUE

JANUARY 2013ISSUE 980

COVER STORY

32 JANINA FIALKOWSKARenowned Chopin specialist on UK tour

FEATURES

25 CRYSTAL BALLTop industry fi gures make their 2013 predictions

28 BIRTHDAY BREAKS Why composer anniversaries dictate our listening

30 ANNIVERSARY CHOICEOur look ahead at a year of signifi cant dates

36 MUSICIAN INJURYBreaking the taboo

40 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

Two hundred years of hits

44 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF INDIA

Mumbai’s pro orchestra

REGULARS

5 EDITORIAL

6 LETTERSA poignant story

7 INSIDE VIEWKeith Clarke looks at 2013’s musical promise

8 NEWS

14 BARLINES

19 Q&AJonathan Cohen

21 PREMIERES

23 MANAGERSNew boss at IAMA

60 RECORDINGFunding The Sixteen

Reconstructing Ivor Gurney

Alice Sara Ott

65 BROADCASTINGAnniversaries on air

70 DIARYArts grant increases of yore

REVIEWS

62 BOOKSToscanini in Britain

The Orchestra:

A Very Short IntroductionIn Two Minds:

Biography of Jonathan Miller

63 CDSQuick reviews, best of the fortnight

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EDITOR’S LETTER

JANUARY 2013 CLASSICALMUSICMAGAZINE.ORG 5

� e changes coquettishly hinted at by my predecessor Keith Clarke in his editorial last issue have pretty much come to fruition. � e � rst is that, as of this issue, we are a monthly magazine. CM has been fortnightly for 35 years, and although I think the printing press was around back then, pretty much every other aspect of publishing has changed. Our raison d’être has always been to bring you up-to-date and authoritative news coverage, and we’re going to keep doing that in the most e� cient way possible, which happens to be the internet these days. � us our now monthly rag can concentrate on doing what the print medium does better – gathering things together in one handy package.

� e new website is now live at www.classicalmusicmagazine.org and we’d love to hear what you think. We’d be foolish if we didn’t expect some teething troubles, and you can help us to � x these by letting us know when things go wrong. We are also starting a daily roundup of classical music in the news, so every morning you can browse what’s been going on in the industry.

We are o� ering a number of di� erent subscription packages to cover readers’ di� erent needs, and you’ll � nd all the info about that on page 38.

Finally, admittedly rather more signi� cant to me than anyone else, is my mug and these words on this very page. I have been deputy editor of the magazine for over � ve years now, and this is my � rst issue as editor – but don’t worry, I won’t be ripping out the panelling and pebble dashing the walls. However, if you would like to take this as an opportunity to tell us what you want more of and what you don’t like so much, feel free to send your thoughts to classical.music@rhinegold.co.uk.

As for Keith, you won’t miss him, because he’s still here. He’ll be dispensing his wisdom every issue on page 7, and helping keep the ship steady in his new capacity as consultant editor.

IN THIS ISSUEJANUARY 2013

ISSUE 980

WELCOME

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The MUSO Pages48 Jennifer Pike52 Borletti Buitoni Trust54 LPO BrightSparks57 Musician’s Handbook

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YOUR SAY…

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POIGNANT STORYSUSAN MEADOWESLONDON SW4

It is pretty amazing that BBC One should have devoted an hour and a half of prime-time viewing over Christmas to anything to do with classical music, and what a great drama we got in Loving Miss Hatto, the story of how pianist Joyce Hatto’s career was ‘extended’ by her husband with the help of other people’s recordings and some computer software. I don’t know how accurately the characters were portrayed but I did enjoy former Gramophone editor James Inverne’s remark in the Times: ‘I had suggested Johnny Depp for the role, my publisher had suggested Danny DeVito.’

In the end, we had a truly poignant story, and it is to the credit of the defrauded record companies involved that they chose not to

prosecute the erring husband, believing that what he did was not for commercial gain but to build a monument to his dying wife.

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I enjoyed reading Elena Gabor’s contribution to the ongoing debate about the value of El Sistema and its philosophically-aligned cousins in the UK [Letters, 15 Dec]. Few people reading this magazine are likely to disagree with the notion that classical music, and music education in general, has some intrinsic value. Yet, if we are going to make that point convincingly to those outside the music family, those holding the purse strings, it can only help to have some academic arguments at the ready.

Ms Gabor is of course careful to point out that more research is necessary. Yet that is surely one of the main benefi ts of the various In Harmony pilot projects in the UK, which have been criticised for being expensive and focusing their resources unfairly on small groups. I should like to see a breakdown of how much all those gold medals cost us before having much truck with that argument.

GOOD MONEY, BAD MONEYNAME & ADDRESS SUPPLIEDLONDON

I think it is reasonable to expect that the main ‘issue’ facing the arts in 2013 will be that of funding. Arts organisations are of course

accustomed to being creative when it comes to building an operating budget. Using a combination of sources – subsidy, lottery grants, tickets, fundraising, sponsorship – will be familiar to any arts company, or at least any which is serious about surviving.

But I wonder if anyone asks or cares where the money comes from. Do I stop to think that a lottery grant is the result of a regressive form of taxation? Or that the corporate entity I’m petitioning for loose change is not only using its clout to decide how tax revenues are spent – via match funding or even just gift aid – but most likely using all manner of ingenious schemes to avoid tax at the other end.

As a fundraiser, my job is to raise funds, not to look gift horses in the mouth. It’s a complicated world, and mostly I think that the money is better spent on music than going towards bonuses. Then again, we don’t just take the money – we allow these companies to use our names to portray themselves as pillars of society. But do lines need to be drawn? Is oil money ok? Arms manufacturers?

It feels like a debate needs to be had.

Francesca Annis and Alfred Molina as Joyce

and Barrie in the BBC’s Loving Miss Hatto

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inside view

Keith ClarKe Consultant Editor new year, new beginnings. In january we emerge from the warm glow of nostalgia to face the cold light of a

new dawn, whatever it may bring. In music, the warm glow got off to an early start at the tail end of november with an 80th birthday concert for former Wigmore Hall manager William Lyne, looking unbelievably sprightly for an octogenarian. (Top marks to senior house manager David King for his pre-concert warm-up act. ‘Coughing. We don’t like it, so don’t do it,’ he said with schoolmarm severity, before swooping to the Steinway to lead us all in Happy Birthday to You, a duty he seems to perform for his old boss at ten-year intervals.) The programme was a classy version of These You Have Loved but also boasted the world premiere of From the Jersey Side by William Bolcom, who was in the audience.

What about the new dawn? By the time this issue hits doormats and iPads the Park lane group Young artists series will have been putting some sparkle in the new Year (it runs 7-11 January, so early readers might still catch a bit of it in the Purcell room) and the fact that the series has been running for half a century should not let us take for granted a positively inspiring celebration of young music-making with an emphasis on new music.

contemporary music is the theme of the year, really, since the whole 12 months are

filled with the wonder of The Rest is Noise festival at the southbank centre, based on alex ross’s iconic book. With 250 events, 18 orchestras, 100 concerts, 150 talks, debates and film screenings, this is really one for the record books. But never mind the width, feel the quality. What better way of celebrating the soundtrack of the 20th century? it is amusing to see the london Philharmonic giving over a whole year to an exploration of ‘how war, race, sex and politics shaped the most important music of the 20th century’ so soon after suspending musicians on the basis that ‘music and politics don’t mix’, but

there we are. For me, the winning remark at the launch event was principal conductor and artistic advisor Vladimir Jurowski saying never mind the 20th century, when can we give over a whole year to the music of the 21st century?

There are not many cities in the world that could rise to the occasion with a festival on this scale. london 2012 might have got all the column inches, but 2013 looks like an absolute cracker from a music business that is up against the wall financially, yet time and again proves itself absolutely world class at putting on a show.

never mind the width, feel the quality

Coughing. We don’t like it, so don’t do it

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news

In a new year honours list dominated by sporting personalities, a number of figures from the classical music world were also recognised, including CBEs for Ruth Mackenzie, director of the Cultural Olympiad, for services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Michael Berman, chairman of the Southbank Sinfonia, for services to music and philanthropy.

Darren Henley, managing director of classic Fm, was awarded the oBe for services to music. mr Henley is also an influential voice in music education.

Violinist nicola Benedetti, who has been active as a mentor and advocate for the sistema scotland education project as well as maintaining her career as an international soloist, was awarded the mBe. The honour capped a successful year for the 25-year-old violinist, as her cD The Silver Violin was the best-selling disc of 2012.

CBe michael Berman, chairman, southbank sinfo-XX

nia – for services to music and philanthropy ruth mackenzie, director, cultural olympiad – XX

for services to the london 2012 olympic and Paralympic games

OBe Prof Derek William aviss, lately executive XX

director and joint principal, Trinity laban con-servatoire of music and Dance – for services to higher and music education Professor John Butt, gardiner professor of XX

music, university of glasgow – for services to music in scotland Keith John Griffin, musician – for services to XX

music in Wales (founder of the national Youth Brass Band of Wales and the Welsh amateur music Federation) Darren richard Henley, managing director, XX

classic Fm – for services to music Pauline etkin, chief executive, nordoff-robbins XX

music Therapy – for services to music therapy David munns, chair, board of governors, nordoff-robbins music Therapy – for services to the music industry and charity František Jan nevrkla, chair, Phonographic XX

Performance limited – for services to the British music industry

MBe nicola Benedetti, violinist – for services to XX

music and to charity spencer William Freeman – for services to XX

music and the arts in eastbourne, east sussex coral lydia gould, singing teacher – XX

for services to music and the arts Trevor george Tipple – for services to church XX

music in Worcestershire Mrs Elaine Griffiths, music teacher, Stanley XX

Primary school, Teddington – for services to education Jillian lesley Johnson, artistic director of XX

concerts, university of leeds – for services to higher education and music in leeds ms Jill love, creative director, silver Pro-XX

gramme, The sage gateshead – for services to music in the community lady Judy gordon martin, director, Young XX

Person’s concert Foundation – for services to music and to charity

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