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.

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The art of great music – and of great writing • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

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GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO… Hungarian dance • Richard Bratby charts the origins and use of the Hungarian dance as a discrete genre

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Lucile Boulanger on her François Bodart bass viol

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

FROM WHERE I SIT • Dame Janet Baker is a true artist, says Edward Seckerson, even if she’s too humble to admit it

American GENIUS • As John Adams turns 75, Patrick Rucker reappraises his impressively varied career and reflects on the composer’s extraordinary legacy

JOHN ADAMS – AN AURAL SNAPSHOT OF A MAGNIFICENT CAREER • Spanning a range from small-scale chamber to orchestral and choral – plus further reading thrown in for good measure

One more mountain TO CLIMB • Lockdown finally gave Frank Peter Zimmermann the space he required to tackle Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas for BIS but, as the German violinist reveals to Lindsay Kemp, he continues to harbour doubts about recording the second and final Volume

EXPANDING HER HORIZONS • The Hungarian soprano Emőke Baráth has enjoyed exploring the lower register of her voice in ‘Dualità’, her new solo album for Erato, which sees her teaming up with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky as conductor, discovers Amanda Holloway

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Mark Seow is blown away by baroque violin-playing of the highest calibre from Théotime Langlois de Swarte, gloriously supported by the musicians of Les Ombres

Orchestral

Bach’s St Matthew Passion • Raphaël Pichon reveals to Lindsay Kemp a studious and collaborative approach to this epic work

Chamber

Charles Rosen • Well known as an academic who wrote about Classical style, this American was an equally celebrated pianist who worked with notable 20th-century composers, says Jed Distler

Instrumental

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA’S MOZART • Harriet Smith hears a sonata cycle that exudes strength and experience

Sarah Kirkland Snider • She came to composition late, but this US composer is catching up fast. Pwyll ap Siôn’s profile gives much musical food for thought

Vocal

Orff’s Carmina Burana (1936) • 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 Gavin Dixon’s point of departure is…

Opera

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