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.

SOUNDS OF AMERICA • A special eight-page section focusing on recent recordings from the US and Canada

Help us choose our Orchestra of the Year! • 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 • Volume 99 Number 1203

Editor’s Choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Strad film follows Janine Jansen journey

New Generation Artists 2021 revealed

ONE TO WATCH • Viviana Lasaracina Piano

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GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … String Quartet • David Threasher on a form that yields intense, exploratory notions

ORCHESTRA Insight … Boston Symphony Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Luis Cabrera on his Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi double bass from c1770

FROM WHERE I SIT • Closing your eyes at the opera is not an option, says Edward Seckerson. This is theatre!

Voices of God • To mark the major anniversaries this year of Caruso, Corelli, Di Stefano and Lanza, three of today’s tenors share their influences with Mark Pullinger, and discuss the enduring appeal of the tenor voice

MASTER OF NOTES • Josquin des Prés’s legendary, even heroic, status can withstand any number of deattributions, says Fabrice Fitch, because of the quality of his output and the legacy he left behind – yet 500 years after his death, big gaps in the discography remain

LISTENING TO JOSQUIN: OUR REPRESENTATIVE GUIDE ACROSS EIGHT RECORDINGS • Seven traditional choices, plus one ‘wild card’: transcriptions for lute, which testify to Josquin’s enduring compositional afterlife

Orchestra of the Year

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Edward Seckerson hails a revelatory account of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony from Kirill Petrenko and the Bavarian State Orchestra, the first release on the orchestra’s own label

Orchestral

Gabriel Fauré’s La bonne chanson • Mezzo Kitty Whately and pianist Malcolm Martineau turn the pages of the score with James Jolly

Chamber

Peter Maag • The Swiss conductor could ruffle feathers but was loved by musicians and audiences alike and was a champion of operatic rarities, leaving some gems on record, says Peter Quantrill

Instrumental

Bryce Dessner • This busy US composer successfully straddles two very different musical worlds and loves to collaborate, finds Jonathan Shipley

Vocal

THE SONGS OF PETER HEISE • Guy Rickards celebrates a comprehensive collection of songs by a 19th-century Danish composer little known outside his homeland

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 Hugo Shirley’s point of departure is …

Opera

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