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.

The magic of Mozart – for young and old alike • 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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Editor’s choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Anna Lapwood signs to Sony

Our centenary approaches!

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Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin • In our series exploring recording venues Tim Parry tells of the history – and superb acoustics – of a Berlin church that will always be associated with Karajan

Leah Broad • The author on her new book profiling four women composers, Quartet (Faber)

WHAT NEXT? • In our monthly guide to further listening, Mark Pullinger sets off from his starting point of Smetana’s Vltava on a journey both by boat and on dry land

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CARTE BLANCHE • This month James Jolly meets a soprano, Margaret Marshall, whose career was launched internationally by a chance encounter with the conductor Riccardo Muti

NOTES & LETTERS

Letter of the Month • Too may records, too little time …

OBITUAR IES

RANGING far & wide • Michael Spyres’s follow-up to his Gramophone Award-winning ‘BariTenor’ is an equally revelatory new album of Baroque tenor arias. Mark Pullinger meets the irrepressible American star of stage and studio

IN PERFECT BALANCE • Soprano Sandrine Piau’s ‘Voyage intime’ album takes her in new directions. She talks to David Patrick Stearns about repertoire choices and relishing a challenge

I’VE STARTED, SO I’LL FINISH… • Two decades on, Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music are picking up where they left off with their period-instrument cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos. Lindsay Kemp meets the keyboardist to find out what has and hasn’t changed

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Mark Pullinger salutes a high-class recording of Puccini’s final opera from Sir Antonio Pappano and a spectacular cast that fully lives up to expectations

Orchestral

Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder • Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton talk to Peter Quantrill about this deeply troubling cycle

Chamber

Myra Hess • Jeremy Nicholas pays tribute to this British pianist who became a national treasure owing in part to her instigation and dedicated promotion of a wartime concert series in London

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Instrumental

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Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate • This American Indian composer’s work is akin to the storytelling of the Chickasaw Nation from which he hails, finds Jonathan Shipley

ESSENTIAL TATE LISTENING • Music that fuses Native American with classical sounds

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Richard Bratby explores a range of web-based operas and gala concerts

Opera

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