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Gramophone Magazine

Apr 01 2021
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 The role of records in championing repertoire • 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 • Deutsche Grammophon announces new signings

ONE TO WATCH • Blaž Šparovec Clarinet

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

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Francesca Dego on Paganini’s ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri

ORCHESTRA Insight … • Estonian Festival Orchestra Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Konzertstück • David Threasher on the origins of this concertante work

FROM WHERE I SIT • Edward Seckerson on the influence of a new conductor on an orchestra’s distinctive sound

Carving out her own path • Lockdown has been tough on Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen but she was able to perform Wagner to live audiences in Berlin, plus a new recording sees her step outside her comfort zone with relish, finds Neil Fisher

STRAVINSKY the conductor • Fifty years after the composer’s death, Riccardo Chailly and Teodor Currentzis talk to Peter Quantrill about what can – and can’t – be learnt from Stravinsky’s own recordings

FINDING VAUGHAN WILLIAMS through folk song • The chemistry between folk song and art music was a catalyst for the English composer to discover his true voice after years of searching, as witness a four-volume set dedicated to this rich yet neglected output, writes Jeremy Dibble

BAROQUE PASSION • In just a decade Arcangelo has become one of today’s most in-demand early music ensembles. Lindsay Kemp meets founder Jonathan Cohen to discuss their new Brockes-Passion recording

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Harriet Smith is overwhelmed by a beautiful album of French piano duets, recorded amid the uncertainty of pending lockdown last March, from Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne

Orchestral

Ravel’s La valse • Robert Trevino talks to Andrew Mellor about the challenges of performing this complex work

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Galina Vishnevskaya • David Patrick Stearns’s experience of hearing the Russian soprano for the first time was life-changing, and here he pays fond tribute to her remarkable vocal ability

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

A SORABJI CYCLE COMPLETED • Jed Distler listens to the final volume of Fredrik Ullén’s survey of Sorabji’s 100 Transcendental Studies and summarises an epic achievement

GRAMOPHONE talks to ... Zlata Chochieva • The Russian pianist discusses her latest album, of transcriptions by three great pianist-composers

Ned Rorem • The 97-year-old American’s music is showing the greater cultural resilience when compared with his candid writings, says Philip Kennicott

ROREM FACTS

Vocal

WHAT NEXT? • Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? Our monthly feature suggests some musical journeys that venture beyond...


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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 The role of records in championing repertoire • 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 • Deutsche Grammophon announces new signings

ONE TO WATCH • Blaž Šparovec Clarinet

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

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Francesca Dego on Paganini’s ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri

ORCHESTRA Insight … • Estonian Festival Orchestra Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Konzertstück • David Threasher on the origins of this concertante work

FROM WHERE I SIT • Edward Seckerson on the influence of a new conductor on an orchestra’s distinctive sound

Carving out her own path • Lockdown has been tough on Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen but she was able to perform Wagner to live audiences in Berlin, plus a new recording sees her step outside her comfort zone with relish, finds Neil Fisher

STRAVINSKY the conductor • Fifty years after the composer’s death, Riccardo Chailly and Teodor Currentzis talk to Peter Quantrill about what can – and can’t – be learnt from Stravinsky’s own recordings

FINDING VAUGHAN WILLIAMS through folk song • The chemistry between folk song and art music was a catalyst for the English composer to discover his true voice after years of searching, as witness a four-volume set dedicated to this rich yet neglected output, writes Jeremy Dibble

BAROQUE PASSION • In just a decade Arcangelo has become one of today’s most in-demand early music ensembles. Lindsay Kemp meets founder Jonathan Cohen to discuss their new Brockes-Passion recording

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Harriet Smith is overwhelmed by a beautiful album of French piano duets, recorded amid the uncertainty of pending lockdown last March, from Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne

Orchestral

Ravel’s La valse • Robert Trevino talks to Andrew Mellor about the challenges of performing this complex work

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Galina Vishnevskaya • David Patrick Stearns’s experience of hearing the Russian soprano for the first time was life-changing, and here he pays fond tribute to her remarkable vocal ability

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

A SORABJI CYCLE COMPLETED • Jed Distler listens to the final volume of Fredrik Ullén’s survey of Sorabji’s 100 Transcendental Studies and summarises an epic achievement

GRAMOPHONE talks to ... Zlata Chochieva • The Russian pianist discusses her latest album, of transcriptions by three great pianist-composers

Ned Rorem • The 97-year-old American’s music is showing the greater cultural resilience when compared with his candid writings, says Philip Kennicott

ROREM FACTS

Vocal

WHAT NEXT? • Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? Our monthly feature suggests some musical journeys that venture beyond...


Expand title description text