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.

In the October issue of Gramophone, we celebrate the 90th birthday of composer Steve Reich by speaking to musicians and fellow composers who have been influenced by his music, including Nico Muhly, Kuniko Kato, Colin Currie and Zoë Martlew.

Also this month, Richard Bratby explores the music of Manuel de Falla with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, and Andrew Farach-Colton talks to US vocal ensemble Chanticleer’s Tim Keeler about recording Machaut.

In addition, we have two indispensable guides this month – our 2026-27 Season Preview, which gives an overview of the most exciting concerts and operas from venues and ensembles worldwide, and our Gramophone Awards Shortlist, which reveals the three shortlisted recordings in each of our recording categories.

For this month’s Collection, David Threasher compares recordings of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, and in a new feature this month – Collection Revisited – Richard Osborne updates his survey of recordings of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In Classics Reconsidered, Charlotte Gardner and Mark Seow discuss Nigel Kennedy’s 1989 recording of The Four Seasons and, in Icons, Richard Fairman remembers the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died aged just 52.

The Japanese Ambassador to the UK, Hiroshi Suzuki, shares his love of classical music in My Music, and for our Contemporary Composers series, Gavin Dixon introduces the fascinatingly diverse works of Alexander Raskatov.

And, as always, there are our unrivalled reviews of new, reissued and archive recordings, including Gustavo Dudamel’s Schumann cycle, Beethoven from the Doric Quartet and Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto from The English Concert.