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 feature marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Carl Maria von Weber, who helped to shape the birth of German Romanticism. Flora Willson paints a vivid picture of a composer of pivotal importance well beyond the handful of works that enjoy performances today. Elsewhere in the issue we talk to Manfred Honeck about his partnership with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, as well as to James Ehnes about the Seattle Chamber Music Society and their new label. In this month’s Icons, we pay tribute to the life and legacy of the American harpsichordist Scott Ross, best known for his complete Scarlatti recordings, while in Classics Reconsidered, we revisit Concerto Italiano’s recording of Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, which won a Gramophone Award in 1994. Plus: this month’s Collection explores available recordings of César Franck’s Piano Quintet, Contemporary Composers focuses on the music of the Canadian composer Emily Doolittle, and Musician & the Score sees pianist Lukas Genuišas talk about Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasia. Plus, as always, the month’s classical music releases are reviewed by our world-leading critics, with the very best being named Editor’s Choices.