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.

Celebrating music, now and all the year long • 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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GRAMOPHONE Editor's choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

Praemium Imperiale Awards honour Anne-Sophie Mutter

Ondine signs Robert Trevino

Ryan Bancroft becomes BBC NOW’s Principal

Beethoven from Barnatan

Warner announces Beethoven plans

ONE TO WATCH Tessa Lark violin

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

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Thibaut Roussel on the Berlioz-signed 1820 Jean-Nicolas Grobert guitar

Change of baton at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Gardner to stay in Bergen

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO Intermezzo • Richard Bratby on the transformation of the operatic interlude into a stand-alone work

IN THE STUDIO

ORCHESTRA Insight … Scottish Chamber Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

Joglaresa raises money for cancer

BBC SO signs Jules Buckley

Wigmore song prize announced

FROM WHERE I SIT • Some music is so epic that only the Royal Albert Hall can contain it, says Edward Seckerson

Celebrating greatness • Editor-in-Chief James Jolly presents our coverage for the 2019 Awards

RECORDING OF THE YEAR Concerto Award Winner 2019 WINNER Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 and solos

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT WINNER Emma Kirkby • A soprano whose expressive, intelligent music-making was revolutionary

ARTIST OF THE YEAR WINNER Víkingur Ólafsson • An extraordinary pianist with a gift for making the familiar feel entirely his own

ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR WINNER Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra • The Asian orchestra whose ambitious Ring cycle on Naxos proved a triumph has won our readers’ vote

YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR WINNER Jakub Józef Orlinski • An exciting young countertenor already making his mark

LABEL OF THE YEAR WINNER Pentatone • Support for a superb roster of artists define this Dutch company

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT WINNER Birgit Nilsson Foundation

CONCEPT ALBUM WINNER Sean Shibe’s wonderfully imaginative ‘softLOUD’ • ‘softLOUD’ is a fascinating answer to the question of what, today, an album can do, and be

GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019 WINNERS LIVE • The Gramophone Awards celebrates brilliance on record, but why not take the opportunity to hear our extraordinary winners live? From pianists and conductors to choirs and countertenors, here’s how to catch them in a concert hall near you …

EARLY MUSIC WINNER Cardoso’s Requiem sung by the Portuguese group Cupertinos • It is a pleasure to have a Portuguese ensemble tackle its native repertory

ORCHESTRAL WINNER Langgaard symphonies from Sakari Oramo in Vienna • The Second is an expansive study in the romanticism of Schumann and Strauss

CHAMBER WINNER Debussy sonatas from a magnificent line-up of musicians • This is music-making that moves with the alertness and grace of a wild...