Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.

Gramophone Magazine

May 01 2023
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.

Keep raising your voices for classical music! • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD • Apple Music Classical app unveiled

ONE TO WATCH

GRAMAPHONE Online • The magazine is just the beginning. Visit gramophone.co.uk for …

Snape Maltings, Suffolk • In this month’s exploration of a recording venue, Tim Parry takes us to Suffolk reed beds near Aldeburgh, and Benjamin Britten’s musical home

Iestyn Davies • The countertenor on his much-admired predecessor, James Bowman, who recently died

WHAT NEXT? • In our monthly guide to further listening, ahead of the Coronation Jeremy Dibble takes as his starting point Parry’s splendidly dramatic anthem ‘I was glad’

NEXT MONTH JUNE 2023

CARTE BLANCHE • Gramophone’s Editor in Chief, James Jolly meets Oliver Zeffman, a young conductor with a record of getting things done, including a series of filmed concert in museums,

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

Letter of the Month • When Hogwood took up the baton

OBITUAR IES

Playing from the HEART • Whether he’s performing Max Bruch or Florence Price, for Randall Goosby it’s about searching for the music’s soul and sharing it with people, finds Andrew Farach-Colton

A perfect PARTNERSHIP • Nobody is more surprised than Fabio Luisi himself about the remarkable rapport he’s found with the music of Carl Nielsen. Andrew Mellor meets him

MARATHON & MIRACLE • Cappella Pratensis have created a unique new manuscript to get even closer to the heart of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart, the longest Renaissance Mass setting. Fabrice Fitch is invited to sit in on a recording session

CLIMBING EVEREST IN THE ROCKIES • An inspired summit: Ohlsson, Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra record the Beethoven concertos. Thomas May reports

GRAMOPHONE Festival GUIDE 2023 • Welcome to our annual guide for the UK, Europe, the US and beyond! Whether you’re a concert-goer, an opera lover, a musician, or all three, you’re sure to find something here to whet the appetite this season

EUROPE FESTIVALS

NORTH AMERICA & BEYOND

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Fabrice Fitch welcomes the final instalment in a survey of Gesualdo’s madrigals, thrilling performances that achieve intimacy and clarity of form while still retaining a sense of risk

Orchestral

Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms • Graham Ross talks to Nigel Simeone about the nature of this concert piece in religious guise

Chamber

Pablo Casals • Part two of our centenary series arrives in the 1930s, when the great Catalan cellist made the first-ever recording of all Bach’s suites. Rob Cowan celebrates his remarkable playing

Instrumental

Helen Grime • Pwyll ap Siôn profiles this Scottish composer whose remarkable music...


Expand title description text

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

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.

Keep raising your voices for classical music! • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD • Apple Music Classical app unveiled

ONE TO WATCH

GRAMAPHONE Online • The magazine is just the beginning. Visit gramophone.co.uk for …

Snape Maltings, Suffolk • In this month’s exploration of a recording venue, Tim Parry takes us to Suffolk reed beds near Aldeburgh, and Benjamin Britten’s musical home

Iestyn Davies • The countertenor on his much-admired predecessor, James Bowman, who recently died

WHAT NEXT? • In our monthly guide to further listening, ahead of the Coronation Jeremy Dibble takes as his starting point Parry’s splendidly dramatic anthem ‘I was glad’

NEXT MONTH JUNE 2023

CARTE BLANCHE • Gramophone’s Editor in Chief, James Jolly meets Oliver Zeffman, a young conductor with a record of getting things done, including a series of filmed concert in museums,

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

Letter of the Month • When Hogwood took up the baton

OBITUAR IES

Playing from the HEART • Whether he’s performing Max Bruch or Florence Price, for Randall Goosby it’s about searching for the music’s soul and sharing it with people, finds Andrew Farach-Colton

A perfect PARTNERSHIP • Nobody is more surprised than Fabio Luisi himself about the remarkable rapport he’s found with the music of Carl Nielsen. Andrew Mellor meets him

MARATHON & MIRACLE • Cappella Pratensis have created a unique new manuscript to get even closer to the heart of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart, the longest Renaissance Mass setting. Fabrice Fitch is invited to sit in on a recording session

CLIMBING EVEREST IN THE ROCKIES • An inspired summit: Ohlsson, Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra record the Beethoven concertos. Thomas May reports

GRAMOPHONE Festival GUIDE 2023 • Welcome to our annual guide for the UK, Europe, the US and beyond! Whether you’re a concert-goer, an opera lover, a musician, or all three, you’re sure to find something here to whet the appetite this season

EUROPE FESTIVALS

NORTH AMERICA & BEYOND

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Fabrice Fitch welcomes the final instalment in a survey of Gesualdo’s madrigals, thrilling performances that achieve intimacy and clarity of form while still retaining a sense of risk

Orchestral

Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms • Graham Ross talks to Nigel Simeone about the nature of this concert piece in religious guise

Chamber

Pablo Casals • Part two of our centenary series arrives in the 1930s, when the great Catalan cellist made the first-ever recording of all Bach’s suites. Rob Cowan celebrates his remarkable playing

Instrumental

Helen Grime • Pwyll ap Siôn profiles this Scottish composer whose remarkable music...


Expand title description text