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 November 2025 issue of Gramophone features one of the finest pianists of our time on the cover, Marc-André Hamelin, an artist long renowned for his astonishing virtuosity and his voracious appetite for more obscure corners of the repertory. We also mark what would have been conductor Sir Charles Mackerras 100th birthday with a tribute to his art and an introduction to his legacy on record – from G&S to Janáček – while in an interview with Jean Rondeau the harpsichordist talks about recording the complete works by Louis Couperin. This month’s Icons introduces the artistry of the Irish lyric soprano Margaret Sheridan whose reputation shone brightly before she retired in obscurity in the 1930s, while in Classics Reconsidered we compare notes on Leonard Bernstein’s 1971 recording of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier for Colombia. The November issue’s Collection explores the six Bartók string quartets, Contemporary Composers looks at the music of the Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen and recommends some listening, this month’s Musician & the Score invites Hallé conductor Kahchun Wong to talk us through Mahler’s Symphony No 2, and in My Music DJ Armin van Buuren shares his classical music passions. Plus, as always, our expert critics review the latest classical albums, with the very best being named Editor’s Choices.