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.

Conference conversations about recordings • 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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EDIRTOR’S CHOICE • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Harmonia Mundi signs Petrenko and the RPO

ONE TO WATCH • Julia Hamos – piano

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Cedille • In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the history of a Chicago-based company that champions local musicians

IN THE NEW EDITION OF CHOIR & ORGAN • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Sam Jackson • The Controller of BBC Radio 3 and the Proms on this year’s festival

Missa Se la face ay pale • Fabrice Fitch surveys the history on record of one of the most disctinctive of all Renaissance Masses

A career in the service of art song • During a visit to the Leeds Song festival, James Jolly met up with one of his musical heroines, the Dutch soprano Elly Ameling to talk about her distinguished career

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Letter of the Month • Marking a significant centenary

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Collaboration, conversation and creativity • Their first album together brings songs by Debussy and Messiaen, and as Hugo Shirley discovers, Magdalena KoŽená and Mitsuko Uchida not only display a wonderful rapport but also offer some intriguing ideas

A tradition for today • As Christopher Gray records his first album with the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, he tells Martin Cullingford about how music both past and present enriches its sound

The brilliance of BIBER • As Croatian violinist Bojan Čičić releases a new album of sonatas by Biber, he tells Lindsay Kemp about the profound part this composer’s music has played in his career

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • A passionate, powerful account of Strauss’s great opera, writes Richard Lawrence, with sumptuous orchestral playing and a dramatically astute cast

Orchestral • Click album covers to buy CDs and downloads or to stream all our featured recordings

Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’ Sonata • Mariam Batsashvili tells Jed Distler about her approach to this eminently popular piece

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A BOUNTY OF CELLO SONATAS • Andrew Farach-Colton listens to a handful of discs by cello-and-piano duos and comes across some repertoire treasures and discoveries

Jiří Bělohlávek • Gavin Dixon celebrates the achievements of this important Czech conductor who played a large part in bringing lesser-known music of his fellow countrymen to audiences worldwide

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