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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.

The immense diversity of the music we cover • 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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Arcana • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history and catalogue of a much-admired French label

IN THE NEW EDITION OF OPERA NOW • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Spring issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Paavo Järvi • The conductor on his latest Haydn ‘London’ symphonies recording

Directing the director - filming music • Ahead of a new memoir, James Jolly speaks to the veteran director Brian Large about how you present concerts and opera for the small screen in a domestic setting

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Letter of the Month • Remembering harpsichordist Colin Tilney

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Solo journey • Timothy Ridout chats with Charlotte Gardner about his new centuries-spanning debut solo album and discusses how he’s going about expanding the viola’s repertoire

The Prince of MUSIC • To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary

Field of vision • Alice Sara Ott has added her own recording to the rather small discography of Field’s nocturnes, creating an album perfectly in keeping with her openness to exploration, finds Jeremy Nicholas

Revisiting BRAHMS • Kent Nagano has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem as it was presented at the work’s Bremen premiere on Good Friday 1868, without the yet-to-be-composed fifth movement, but with musical interpolations and vast choral forces. Andrew Farach-Colton finds out more

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Edward Seckerson on an account of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony that finds Sir Simon Rattle at the height of his powers and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on their finest form

Orchestral

Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 3 • Cristian Măcelaru tells Christian Hoskins about the special qualities of this final symphony

Chamber

Rudolf Barshai • Tully Potter remembers the brilliant Russian viola player, conductor and arranger – a true Renaissance man – who worked closely with and was a friend of Shostakovich

Instrumental

Detlev Glanert • Guy Rickards champions the German composer, now in his sixties, much of whose vast and intriguing output is still to be set down on record

Vocal

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ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Richard Bratby explores a range of web-based operas and 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

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