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 edition of Gramophone is a very special celebration of the 2026 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. You can read full coverage of our winners, written by our world-leading experts, including our Recording of the Year, alongside a special celebration of the career of our Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dame Imogen Cooper.

Elsewhere in the issue, Richard Wigmore surveys the recorded history of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 27 in our Collection feature; conductor Cristian Măcelaru talks Andrew Farach-Colton through the score of Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin; in Classics Reconsidered, David Threasher and Geraint Lewis discuss Rostropovich’s 1964 recording of Britten and Haydn; and in My Music, writer Robert Macfarlane explores the relationship between classical music and the natural world.

Plus, as always, we review the latest classical recordings – and reveal which recordings have been named Editors’ Choices.