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 cover artist is the Spanish violinist María Dueñas who talks about her new album for Deutsche Grammophon, ‘Homage to Heifetz’, recorded in collaboration with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel. Two new recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers – from Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini on Coro, and Lambert Colson and InAlto on Ricercar – appear this month, and the conductors tell us about their engagement with the music. We also celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Husum Festival – ‘Rarities of Piano Music’ – in northern Germany, as well as travel to Berlin to go behind the scenes of the Decca Pure Analogue LP releases, witnessing the fascinating equipment and techniques involved in restoring famous old recordings to their analogue glory on high-quality vinyl.

Elsewhere in the issue, in Icons we explore the life and legacy of the violinist and conductor Sir Neville Marriner, who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Classics Reconsidered looks back at the 1965 recording of Puccini’s Turandot, starring Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli. The September issue’s Collection explores the history on record of Mozart’s Symphony No 35, the ‘Haffner’, while Contemporary Composers introduces the work of the Norwegian composer Ørjan Matre and recommends some essential listening. Musician & the Score sees conductor Enrico Onofri talk us through his individual approach to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Plus, as always, the latest classical albums are reviewed by our expert critic, with the very best being named Editor’s Choices.