Gramophone Magazine

Gramophone enriches your classical music experience and connects you with great recordings.

Packed with features across all classical music genres, our globally acclaimed writers will inform and entertain you with independent and intelligent editorial and more than 150 reviews in every issue. Our reputation is founded on our acclaimed critical analyses of the latest CD releases, in-depth features and interviews with classical stars, and our comprehensive coverage of recorded and live music. Please Note: This price excludes VAT which will be added when you checkout.

Hearing directly from today’s great composers • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

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Editor’s cboice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD

Sypniewski Trio

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Delos • In our latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history and catalogue of a pioneering American company

IN THE NEW EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL PIANO • Editor Tim Parry introduces the Spring issue of Gramophone’s sister title devoted to the piano

Michael Spring • … about coordinating Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series

Capricci • Fabrice Fitch listens to the available recordings of an early keyboard collection usually played on the organ

Recalling one of the conducting greats • With the centenary of the birth of Klaus Tennstedt in June, James Jolly talks to the conductor’s producer and former Managing Director of the LPO, John Willan

Letter of the Month

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OBITUARIES

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Remembered ROOTS • As Sean Shibe releases an album of contemporary works including Thomas Adès’s Forgotten Dances, Martin Cullingford hears from the guitarist – and from Adès – about the instrument’s place in modern music

Out of the ashes • Having finally recorded the only surviving piano sonata by fellow Norwegian Geirr Tveitt, who famously lost much of his music in a fire, Leif Ove Andsnes tells Harriet Smith about his relationship with the composer and how the project came to fruition

Perfect partnerships • US composer Nico Muhly shares with Hattie Butterworth his thoughts on writing new church music, and discusses his relationship with faith and with the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

UK FESTIVALS • Charlotte Gardner presents our annual guide to upcoming festivals throughout the world, covering events from concerts and recitals to large-scale operas

EUROPE FESTIVALS

NORTH AMERICA & BEYOND

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Mark Pullinger discovers an elegant and imaginative take on the Sleeping Beauty legend, Charles Silver’s 1902 opera – the latest repertoire revival from the Bru Zane label

Orchestral

THE GREAT PIANISTS • Discover the greatest pianists, their repertoire and recordings in this 100-page collectors’ edition, bringing together the very finest writing from Gramophone and International Piano

GRAMOPHONE Focus SEMYON BYCHKOV’S MAHLER • Richard Osborne finds plenty to enjoy in the conductor’s patiently assembled Mahler cycle with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

THE WORLD‘S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

Brahms’s Piano Quartet No 1 • Tom Poster and Elena Urioste join Charlotte Gardner to share thoughts on this popular work

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Eleanor Steber • Tim Ashley celebrates the great American soprano whose wide-ranging...