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 month’s Gramophone features American tenor Jonathan Tetelman on the cover – Editor Martin Cullingford met him in Rome as he recorded the role of Cavaradossi in Deutsche Grammophon’s new recording of Puccini’s Tosca. Plus, as Opera Rara, Gramophone’s current Label of the Year, releases the lesser-known 1857 version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Mark Pullinger finds out more about resurrecting this version and the label’s distinctive philosophy. Elsewhere in the issue, in Icons, Tully Potter considers the career and enormous influence of the English viola player Lionel Tertis; in Classics Reconsidered, Rob Cowan and Jeremy Nicholas return to Leon Fleisher’s 1964 release of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, with The Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell; while Collection sees Lindsay Kemp listen to the available recordings of Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, and recommends the best versions. Our Contemporary Composers feature this month focuses on the music of the Danish composer Ole Buck, while in Musician & the Score, Mark Seow talks to the conductor Raphaël Pichon about recording Bach’s B minor Mass for Harmonia Mundi. Plus, as always, our expert critics reviews the latest releases, and the best are named Editor’s Choices.