Gramophone

Gramophone has been the world’s leading authority on classical music since 1923. With 13 issues a year every edition will enrich your classical music knowledge with in-depth interviews and features about composers past and present, plus established and new artists from across the globe. Each issue includes over 100 reviews of the latest CDs, downloads, DVDs and books all written by our globally acclaimed panel of expert critics. Gramophone is the magazine for the classical collector, as well for the enthusiast starting a voyage of discovery. 

The trial issue features an in-depth retrospective on Schubert’s Winterreise, with input from some of the leading performers of the song cycle, including Jonas Kauffman, Ian Bostridge, Gerald Finley and Brigitte Fassbaender. 

It also includes an interview with the San Francisco Symphony’s conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas; the New York Philharmonic’s Music Director, Alan Gilbert, discusses Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony; plus we look back at the remarkable career of American soprano Leontyne Price. 

Also featured in the trial issue: we analyse the breakthrough works of John Adams, we reconsider Sir Thomas Beecham’s classic recording of Puccini’s La bohème, and we recommend the very best recordings of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2.

Please note: This is the North American edition of Gramophone. It includes all the pages of the UK edition and also a specialised 16 page supplement each issue, “Sounds of America”. This details the most exciting musical developments across North America as well as reviewing the most interesting specialist American releases.

This special Awards edition of Gramophone brings you full coverage of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, including all 11 category winners, plus the special awards including Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Orchestra of the Year, Label of the Year and more - plus, of course, we reveal the 2024 Gramophone Recording of the Year! We also bring you Gramophone's usual expert features, including the latest reviews by the world’s leading critics, our Editor's Choices, and our Collection, which is this month focussed on the recorded history of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The Budapest Quartet are our Icons, and Timo Andres our Contemporary Composer focus, while Musician and the Score this month explores Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2. Plus, Chris Patten tells us about the place of music in his life in My Music interview.