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.

The February 2023 issue of Gramophone devotes its cover story to celebrating a major studio opera – rare nowadays – of Puccini’s Turandot, featuring a star-studded cast, and conducted by Antonio Pappano. We also meet with the defiantly individual harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani to discuss his new recording of three 20th-century Czech harpsichord concertos, and celebrate the music of Schütz 350 years after his death by talking to some of his leading interpreters today. This month’s Collection is Schumann’s First Piano Trio – which is the best recording to hear? In Icons we pay tribute to Spanish pianist Joaquin Achúcarro, and in Contemporary Composer survey the career of Edward Gregson. In Musician and Score Mary Bevan talks about her approach to Britten’s Les Illuminations, while Bernstein’s recording of Nielsen’s Third is the subject of Classics Reconsidered. Finally, in My Music, actor Siân Phillips shares her classical music passions. Plus, as always, our expert critics review the latest classical music releases, with the best being named Editor’s Choices.