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.

GRAMOPHONE • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD • I Fagiolini in eight-album deal

ONE TO WATCH • Juliette Journaux Piano

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STUDIO PROFILE • This month we look at an easily forgotten recording gem with an acoustic that puts it among the greatest of studios, writes Tim Parry

GRAMOPHONE talks to … • The trumpeter on ‘Casta Diva’, her album of music originally for voice

WHAT NEXT? • In our guide to further listening, Mark Seow starts with Biber’s Rosary (Mystery) Sonatas – and the ensuing musical journey takes some weird and wonderful turns

GRAMOPHONE • NEXT MONTH JULY 2023

CARTE BLANCHE • As the Borletti-Buitoni Trust’s 20th anniversary approaches, Editor-in-Chief James Jolly meets Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, the BBT’s co-founder and its music-loving guiding spirit

Letter of the Month • Artists for tomorrow–how will they fare?

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

CLASSICAL CUBA • Sarah Willis – BPO horn player and energetic ambassador for classical music – talks to Andrew Farach-Colton about salsa dancing, and playing Mozart and mambo

HANDEL FOR ALL • Harry Bicket and The English Concert have embarked on a hugely ambitious project to film Handel’s entire catalogue and release it online for free. Alexandra Coghlan reports

ANTHEMS ON A GRAND SCALE • The expanding choral department of Merton College, Oxford, has been no stranger to Gramophone’s review pages. Now it presents its biggest recording yet, reports Andrew Mellor

FORTHCOMING ON DELPHIAN

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • David Vickers hails a composite Baroque equivalent to Brahms’s A German Requiem, the imaginative programming matched by superb performances from Vox Luminis

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Focus MUSIC × MUSEUMS • Richard Bratby looks in on a series of concerts filmed at London venues

Bach’s Keyboard Concerto BWV1052 • Steven Devine puts a unique spin on Bach’s compositional choices, finds Mark Seow

Chamber

Arturo Toscanini • Richard Osborne takes our centenary series into the 1940s, when maestro Toscanini made his Gramophone cover debut and launched America’s first-ever series of televised concerts

Instrumental

Dobrinka Tabakova • Having fought against pressures inherent in her field, she has an unwavering reverence for melody and clarity, says Hattie Butterworth

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Mellor explores a range of performances from around Europe

Opera

Jazz • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines – Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals – recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

World Music

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