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.

What makes an Award-winner so remarkable? • 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 1206

GRAMOPHONE Editor’s choice • A stunning album from Michael Spyres, a richly and impressively varied programme showcasing not just a voice of exceptional range but of colour and vivid characterisation too.

Kazuki Yamada named as new CBSO Chief Conductor

Joana Mallwitz’s new Berlin post

Channel Classics label bought by Outhere Music

Young Kazakh pianist wins Leeds

Calum Huggan Percussion

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“GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO …String quintets” • Richard Bratby explores this genre’s various scorings over the past 250 years

Renovated Zurich Tonhalle opens

New composer platform launched

Celebrating Jansons’s Munich years

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

Emerson Quartet to retire in 2023

Being Sergiu Celibidache

LPO's Marquee TV residency

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Timothy Ridout on his Peregrino di Zanetto viola from c1565-75

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma honoured

New home for Gardiner’s ensembles

Jaap van Zweden to leave NY Phil

FROM WHERE I SIT • Edward Seckerson offers some fond reflections on the great Sir Malcolm Arnold and his music

The music plays on … and on • Editor-in-Chief James Jolly introduces the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021

Opera Award Winner 2021 • Britten’s haunting masterpiece finds natural allies in Edward Gardner and a superb cast headed by Stuart Skelton

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT • The great German soprano, beloved of some of the finest conductors of the day, is honoured for her remarkable recorded legacy

ARTIST OF THE YEAR • The Canadian violinist is at the height of his powers and this year gave us recordings of authority and maturity, with a special power to communicate

ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR • Securing nearly a third of the 31,147 votes cast, Osmo Vänskä’s fine Minneapolis-based ensemble triumphed in this public vote

YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR • The engaging and imaginative Egyptian soprano announced her arrival as a major artist both in concert and on an outstanding debut album

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT • In its 25th anniversary season, we salute an organisation that has championed American music of the the 20th and 21st century with passion and panache

SPATIAL AUDIO • Harnessing Dolby Atmos technology to enhance the musical experience was at the heart of the vote that propelled Stile Antico’s Josquin to the top of the list

LABEL OF THE YEAR • Skilfully balancing tradition and innovation, the Yellow Label’s remarkable year has earned it recognition as a fully rounded classical record label

CONCEPT ALBUM • A superbly rewarding musical journey through the growth and development of the cello that leaves an enduring impression

CHAMBER • A unqiue and imaginative...