Gramophone

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 Gramophone features the viola player Timothy Ridout on our cover – we talk to the superb young virtuoso about his new album of solo works by Bach, Telemann, Britten and Shaw. We also meet with Alice Sara Ott, who has recorded the complete nocturnes by John Field, and in his 500th anniversary year explore the music of Palestrina with vocal ensemble Stile Antico. Kent Nagano, meanwhile, talks us through his recording of Brahms’s A German Requiem as it would have been performed on Good Friday 1868, this month Icons is conductor Rudolf Barshai, while in Classics Reconsidered we revisit the 1968 DG recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Our Collection explores the wealth of recordings of Chausson’s Concert for piano, violin and string quartet, our Contemporary Composer focus this month is German composer Detlev Glanert, and Musician & the Score sees conductor Cristian Măcelaru talks about Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 3. Plus, as always, our expert critics review this month’s classical releases, with the finest being named Editor’s Choices.