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.

GRAMOPHONE • THE WORLD‘S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

New Year, new generation of recording artists • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

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

FOR THE RECORD • Anne-Sophie Mutter marks 50 years on stage

ONE TO WATCH • Bellot Ensemble

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Pentatone • In our latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of a Dutch label that emerged from a major company

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

Kitty Whately • The mezzo-soprano on recording the songs of Rebecca Clarke

Distant Light • Andrew Mellor guides us through the available recordings of one of the most popular of modern violin concertos

Celebrating a career devoted to the new • As one of the most influential people on the contemporary music scene prepares to retire, James Jolly visits the offices of Boosey & Hawkes to talk to Janis Susskind

Letter of the Month • The silence is deafening

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The new generation • Today’s most creative young artists are reshaping recording in their own image. Charlotte Gardner talks to some of the most innovative figures about what the art form means to them

A musical miracle • The Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has overcome blindness to achieve worldwide recognition and a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Jeremy Nicholas meets him in advance of the release of his second album for the yellow label

MUSIC COMPETITIONS GUIDE • Charlotte Gardner scours the UK, Europe, the US and the rest of the world to find the best competitions in all manner of musical disciplines – and here are the results

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GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Jed Distler welcomes an account of Schubert four-hand works that finds Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou in perfect sympathy, both with each other and with the music

Orchestral

BALLET ON FILM • Mark Pullinger rounds up a collection of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs of ballet both traditional and modern

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No 7 • Jed Distler hears from Giorgi Gigashvili about his approach to the second of the ‘War Sonatas’

Chamber

Boris Christoff • Mark Pullinger pays homage to the Bulgarian operatic bass well known for his interpretations of Boris Godunov and Philip II, and who left an abundance of recorded Russian song

Instrumental

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Seppo Pohjola • Andrew Mellor profiles the outstanding musical architect from Finland as he enters his seventh decade

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