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.

Our February 2026 issue features the great Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski on the cover, as he releases his new recording of solo piano music by Johannes Brahms, a highly personal selection from the composer’s magical pool of autumnal late piano pieces, Opp 116-119. Titled ‘1851’, the latest album from cellist Steven Isserlis – alongside the pianist Connie Shih, who plays an 1851 Érard – features sonatas by Schumann and Moscheles written in that year. Meanwhile, we also explore a new recording of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontiusperformed by the Huddersfield Choral Society, and conducted by the indefatigable Martyn Brabbins – timed to coincide with the new Alan Bennett film The Choral, which deals with the same choral society mounting a wartime performance of the same work. Elsewhere in the issue, in Icons, we discuss the career and legacy of the Australian pianist Eileen Joyce, renowned for her elegant virtuosity, while in Classics Reconsidered, we return to Carlo Maria Guilini’s famous 1959 recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with a stellar cast including Joan Sutherland and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – does it deserve its classic status? Collection guides readers through the available recordings of a great organ work, Julius Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm, while Contemporary Composers introduces the work of the British composer Peter Fribbins and suggests some listening. Musician & the Score sees American violinist Stella Chen – Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year in 2023 – talk about recording Barber’s Violin Concerto for Platoon, while, as always, we bring you our expert reviews of the finest classical releases, with the very best being named Editor’s Choices.