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 June 2026 issue of Gramophone features violinist Alina Ibragimova on the cover, to tie in with her new recording of Beethoven’s violin sonatas for BIS with Cédric Tiberghien. We also meet with conductor Jakub Hrůša who has recorded the complete symphonies of Martinů with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, plus another conductor, Fabio Luisi, who has recorded Wagner’s Ring cycle in Dallas, released on the Delos label. Elsewhere in the issue, in Icons, we explore the legacy and recordings of the Juilliard Quartet, while in Classics Reconsidered the famous 1983 Decca recording of Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Alicia de Larrocha is this month’s focus. Collection explores the history on record of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, while in Contemporary Composers we look at the music of British composer Edward Nesbit. Musician & the Score sees conductor Nathalie Stutzmann talk us through Bruckner’s Symphony No 4 – plus, as always, the latest classical music releases are reviewed by our expert critics, with the very best named Editor’s Choices.