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.

The humanity behind the music-making • 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

FOR THE RECORD • New soprano signing at Pentatone

Top Estonian post for Olari Elts

ONE TO WATCH • Timothy Ridout Viola

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OBITUARIES • Late last year saw the loss of two great conductors from the orchestral and choral worlds, Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury

Michael McManus, who interviewed the conductor several times, reflects on his life

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Oratorio • Richard Wigmore traces the history of this sacred genre from the 17th century onwards

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Alison Balsom on her natural trumpet

ORCHESTRA Insight … Oslo Philharmonic • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

IN THE STUDIO

FROM WHERE I SIT • The decline in expertise in arts coverage is deeply worrying, warns Edward Seckerson

PRESERVING BEETHOVEN’S LEGACY • Since the arrival of the gramophone, the range and interpretative possibilities of Beethoven’s music have been revealed as never before, writes Richard Osborne

MUST-HAVE BEETHOVEN ON RECORD • Six landmark sets you can’t be without in Beethoven year

BEETHOVEN LIVE • Throughout the year many of the world’s leading classical artists will be taking projects inspired by Beethoven’s 250th anniversary around the globe – and to a venue near you

Young artist, old soul • At just 20 years old Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes inspiration from the great cellists of the distant past – and his models for Elgar’s Cello Concerto are no exception, finds Richard Bratby

AN INSPIRATIONAL PARTNERSHIP • As the Academy of St Martin in the Field’s Music Director since 2011, violinist Joshua Bell has been respecting tradition while also doing things a little differently – and the orchestra’s 60th-anniversary celebrations are no exception, finds Charlotte Gardner

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Michelle Assay finds Stephen Hough’s approach to late Brahms revelatory, with its combination of imagination, sensitivity and colour, and its lack of self-indulgence

Orchestral

Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote • Conductor Vasily Petrenko shares his feelings about the piece with Andrew Farach-Colton

Chamber

GRAMOPHONE Focus LIVED-IN BEETHOVEN • Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a rewarding journey through Beethoven’s string quartets with the Miró Quartet

DEFINING MOMENTS

Hans Swarowsky • Peter Quantrill champions the Austrian conductor and pedagogue who once wavered between the callings of music and psychoanalysis, and about whom many still wax lyrical

Instrumental

Alexandra Papastefanou • The Greek pianist has recorded the French Suites and discusses her approach – both musical and pianistic – to playing Bach

DENNEHY FACTS

Donnacha Dennehy • It’s hard to...