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 the superb Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto on the cover, who talks to us about his highly personal new album with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra for Platoon, ‘Willows’, which includes a gently radical re-imagining of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending alongside works by Caroline Shaw, Ellen Reid and the American folk singer Sam Amidon, whose songs have been arranged by Nico Muhly. Elsewhere in the issue, we mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the English composer and lutenist John Dowland, whose melancholy songs still feel relevant today, offering some essential listening recommendations. We also explore Russian symphonies written in the immediate aftermath of Shostakovich’s death in 1975, discussing works composed by Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Bibik, Mikhail Nosyrev, Boris Tishchenko and Mieczysław Weinberg. Our monthly Icons celebrates the career and recordings of the great British bass-baritone Owen Brannigan, while in Classics Reconsidered we listen again to Murray Perahia’s Gramophone Award-winning recording of Handel and Scarlatti on Sony Classical – does it still sound as good today as it did in the late 1990s? The Collection surveys the available recordings of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 5, the ‘Reformation’, composed in 1830, and our Contemporary Composers feature introduces the music of Kerensa Briggs, best known for her choral music. Musician & the Score talks to the chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada, about recording Walton’s First Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon, while My Music meets broadcaster and extreme angler Jeremy Wade to hear about his musical reflections. Plus, as always, our expert critics review the latest classical releases, with the very best named Editor’s Choices.