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.

Discovering great artists - with increased ease • 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 Editors choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD

Celebrate The Greatest Tenors

Our podcasts pass the half million mark

BBC Proms unveils its 2021 season

ONE TO WATCH

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Staatskapelle Dresden • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

Edinburgh Festival reveals plans

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Thomas Trotter on the organ of King’s College, Cambridge

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO… Mélodie • Richard Wigmore on France’s answer to the Lied, championed by Fauré and others

Celebrating Chopin

FROM WHERE I SIT • The late Christa Ludwig’s sense of drama appealed greatly to Bernstein, recalls Edward Seckerson

BORN FIGHTER • Toughened by his early years in New York, Piazzolla returned to his native Buenos Aires ‘with a stick of dynamite in each hand’, finds Andrew Farach-Colton, determined to revolutionise the tango

PLAYING PIAZZOLLA • Six recordings which get to the heart of nuevo tango

GREAT MUSICIANS from under the radar • What’s in a name? This is the question Rob Cowan asks as he argues the case for 20 astounding artists, both past and present, who deserve greater recognition

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Michelle Assay hears Brahms’s piano concertos with fresh ears thanks to the advocacy of András Schiff, who directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from an 1859 Blüthner

Orchestral

Vasily Petrenko • The conductor discusses his final recording as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring works by Schreker and Zemlinsky

Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 1 • András Schiff talks to Jed Distler about his approach to this youthful, often misunderstood work

Discover a world of music this summer

Chamber

THOMAS DE HARTMANN • Guy Rickards discovers a neglected Russian composer whose music is lovingly presented on five discs – solo piano, chamber music and songs

Peter Hurford • Andrew Mellor celebrates the pioneering British organist whom we lost two years ago, aged 88, and who succeeded in restoring the popularity of the instrument and its repertory

Instrumental

Johannes Maria Staud • Further recordings of this Austrian composer’s rich and fascinating output are sorely needed, urges Peter Quantrill

LANDMARK RECORDINGS • Three discs that place Staud firmly on the map

Vocal

WHAT NEXT? • Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? Our monthly feature suggests some musical journeys that venture beyond the most familiar works, with some recommended versions. This month Mark Pullinger’s point of departure is…

Opera

Jazz • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise and Songlines, recommend some of their favourite...