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Gramophone Magazine

Oct 01 2019
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.

Music can offer a change of perspective • 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

GRAMOPHONE Editor's choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • John Wilson revives the Sinfonia of London

Watch the Gramophone Awards live!

Our month on Medici

DG unveils its Beethoven box-set

ONE TO WATCH • Matthew Zalkind Cellist

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

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Thomas Trotter on the organ of Christ Church, Spitalfields

BBC commissions musical Morpurgo film

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO Opera buffa • Richard Wigmore offers a guide to comic opera, a genre illuminated by Mozart’s genius

IN THE STUDIO

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

FROM WHERE I SIT • What can we expect next from last year’s Young Artist of the Year, Lise Davidsen, asks Edward Seckerson

THE SHORTLIST

Finding freedom in the score • As Christian Tetzlaff returns to the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos,

The other STANFORD • We have long admired Stanford’s church music, but a flurry of new releases, including a first opera recording, may transform our impression of this British composer, writes Jeremy Dibble

RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS • The many sides of Stanford, from chamber to church music

MUSIC for all bumanity • Iván Fischer’s approach to Beethoven with his Budapest Festival Orchestra is one of inclusivity, innovation and liberation – and his recording of the Fifth is no exception, writes Peter Quantrill

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Rob Cowan submits to Christian Tetzlaff ’s interpretative vision and willingness to take risks, and listens afresh to violin concertos by Beethoven and Sibelius

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Focus THE TCHAIKOVSKY PROJECT • Edward Seckerson immerses himself in Semyon Bychkov's Tchaikovsky, including the complete symphonies and piano concertos

GRAMOPHONE Collector SYMPHONIC DEVELOPMENT • David Threasher explores some symphonies (with a few concertos thrown in) by a selection of minor masters of the Classical era

Brahms’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G • Charlotte Gardner talks to Alina Ibragimova about her ‘just let it happen’ approach to Brahms

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Gary Graffman • Jed Distler profiles the nonagenarian American pianist who overcame a serious hand condition to continue making music and teach a remarkable diversity of outstanding artists

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

SCOTT ROSS’S BACH • Lindsay Kemp enjoys the Bach-playing of a maverick harpsichordist who died tragically young, before the project could be completed

GRAMOPHONE talks to ... Mark Viner • The adventurous pianist talks about his latest album of Thalberg’s opera fantasies

Christopher Rouse • Richard Whitehouse provides rich insight into the work of the...


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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.

Music can offer a change of perspective • 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

GRAMOPHONE Editor's choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • John Wilson revives the Sinfonia of London

Watch the Gramophone Awards live!

Our month on Medici

DG unveils its Beethoven box-set

ONE TO WATCH • Matthew Zalkind Cellist

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

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Thomas Trotter on the organ of Christ Church, Spitalfields

BBC commissions musical Morpurgo film

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO Opera buffa • Richard Wigmore offers a guide to comic opera, a genre illuminated by Mozart’s genius

IN THE STUDIO

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

FROM WHERE I SIT • What can we expect next from last year’s Young Artist of the Year, Lise Davidsen, asks Edward Seckerson

THE SHORTLIST

Finding freedom in the score • As Christian Tetzlaff returns to the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos,

The other STANFORD • We have long admired Stanford’s church music, but a flurry of new releases, including a first opera recording, may transform our impression of this British composer, writes Jeremy Dibble

RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS • The many sides of Stanford, from chamber to church music

MUSIC for all bumanity • Iván Fischer’s approach to Beethoven with his Budapest Festival Orchestra is one of inclusivity, innovation and liberation – and his recording of the Fifth is no exception, writes Peter Quantrill

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Rob Cowan submits to Christian Tetzlaff ’s interpretative vision and willingness to take risks, and listens afresh to violin concertos by Beethoven and Sibelius

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Focus THE TCHAIKOVSKY PROJECT • Edward Seckerson immerses himself in Semyon Bychkov's Tchaikovsky, including the complete symphonies and piano concertos

GRAMOPHONE Collector SYMPHONIC DEVELOPMENT • David Threasher explores some symphonies (with a few concertos thrown in) by a selection of minor masters of the Classical era

Brahms’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G • Charlotte Gardner talks to Alina Ibragimova about her ‘just let it happen’ approach to Brahms

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Gary Graffman • Jed Distler profiles the nonagenarian American pianist who overcame a serious hand condition to continue making music and teach a remarkable diversity of outstanding artists

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

SCOTT ROSS’S BACH • Lindsay Kemp enjoys the Bach-playing of a maverick harpsichordist who died tragically young, before the project could be completed

GRAMOPHONE talks to ... Mark Viner • The adventurous pianist talks about his latest album of Thalberg’s opera fantasies

Christopher Rouse • Richard Whitehouse provides rich insight into the work of the...


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