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Gramophone Magazine

Nov 01 2023
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 • 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

Gramophone Magazine • Volume 101 Number 1233

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Yunchan Lim joins Decca Classics

ONE TO WATCH • La Néréide vocal ensemble

GRAMOPHONE Online • The magazine is just the beginning. Visit gramophone.co.uk for …

Ulster Hall, Belfast • In the latest of our series exploring recording venues Tim Parry reports on a fine Victorian hall in the heart of Belfast’s city centre

Isata Kanneh-Mason • The pianist on her role in a new documentary film about Fanny Mendelssohn

WHAT NEXT? • In our guide to further listening, David Threasher takes as his starting point Schumann’s Symphony No 3, ‘Rhenish’ – where will his musical journey lead?

NEXT MONTH DECEMBER 2023

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

SINGING TOWARDS A CENTURY • James Jolly catches up with Carolyn Sampson as the English soprano approaches a major milestone in her recording career

AMONG THE HIGH HILLS • As one chapter ends for Sir Mark Elder, another begins - and with a major new recording of the work many consider Delius’s masterpiece, says Andrew Mellor

Bayerisches Staatsorchester • A new label from an old orchestra is having a huge impact on the catalogue - and on Gramophone’s critics. In conversation with its creator, Andrew Mellor finds out what BSO Recordings stands for - both literally and artistically

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • History has been unkind to Offenbach’s La princesse de Trébizonde but, as Richard Bratby discovers, Opera Rara captures the work’s magic

Orchestral

Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé • Thanks to a complete revision of the score and parts, John Wilson’s new recording gets closer than ever before to the composer’s intentions, as he tells Mark Pullinger

Chamber

Cecilia Bartoli • Shifting into the first decade of this century, David Patrick Stearns celebrates one of the most virtuosic and innovative singers of the time – who redefined what it is to be a mezzo

Instrumental

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

Give the gift of music this Christmas

Georges Aperghis • His works explore the point at which the musicality of the word and the verbalisation of sound converge, says Liam Cagney

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Farach-Colton explores a range of web-based concerts

Opera

JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND MUSICALS REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals, recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

Introducing… MUSICALS

REISSUES & ARCHIVE • Our monthly guide to the most exciting catalogue releases, historic issues and box-sets

BOX-SET Round-up • Rob Cowan dips into two vocal collections, plus a German pianist’s Liszt and...


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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 • 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

Gramophone Magazine • Volume 101 Number 1233

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Yunchan Lim joins Decca Classics

ONE TO WATCH • La Néréide vocal ensemble

GRAMOPHONE Online • The magazine is just the beginning. Visit gramophone.co.uk for …

Ulster Hall, Belfast • In the latest of our series exploring recording venues Tim Parry reports on a fine Victorian hall in the heart of Belfast’s city centre

Isata Kanneh-Mason • The pianist on her role in a new documentary film about Fanny Mendelssohn

WHAT NEXT? • In our guide to further listening, David Threasher takes as his starting point Schumann’s Symphony No 3, ‘Rhenish’ – where will his musical journey lead?

NEXT MONTH DECEMBER 2023

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

SINGING TOWARDS A CENTURY • James Jolly catches up with Carolyn Sampson as the English soprano approaches a major milestone in her recording career

AMONG THE HIGH HILLS • As one chapter ends for Sir Mark Elder, another begins - and with a major new recording of the work many consider Delius’s masterpiece, says Andrew Mellor

Bayerisches Staatsorchester • A new label from an old orchestra is having a huge impact on the catalogue - and on Gramophone’s critics. In conversation with its creator, Andrew Mellor finds out what BSO Recordings stands for - both literally and artistically

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • History has been unkind to Offenbach’s La princesse de Trébizonde but, as Richard Bratby discovers, Opera Rara captures the work’s magic

Orchestral

Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé • Thanks to a complete revision of the score and parts, John Wilson’s new recording gets closer than ever before to the composer’s intentions, as he tells Mark Pullinger

Chamber

Cecilia Bartoli • Shifting into the first decade of this century, David Patrick Stearns celebrates one of the most virtuosic and innovative singers of the time – who redefined what it is to be a mezzo

Instrumental

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

Give the gift of music this Christmas

Georges Aperghis • His works explore the point at which the musicality of the word and the verbalisation of sound converge, says Liam Cagney

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Farach-Colton explores a range of web-based concerts

Opera

JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND MUSICALS REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals, recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

Introducing… MUSICALS

REISSUES & ARCHIVE • Our monthly guide to the most exciting catalogue releases, historic issues and box-sets

BOX-SET Round-up • Rob Cowan dips into two vocal collections, plus a German pianist’s Liszt and...


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