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.

In gratitude for recorded music’s champions • 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 104 Number 1267

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

FOR THE RECORD • Remembering the soprano Dame Felicity Lott

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Channel Classics • In our latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry charts the history of a Dutch label renowned for its musical and audiophile values

IN THE NEW EDITION OF CHOIR & ORGAN • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Ayres Extemporae

Adès’s new Hallé role

Ondine’s Sibelius cycle

Der Graf von Luxemburg • Richard Bratby is our enthusiastic guide to a rarely heard Viennese operetta, surveying its history on record and recommending the version to hear

Leaving a great London orchestra • As Dame Kathryn McDowell steps down as Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, James Jolly looks back with her over two successful decades

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Rethinking WEBER • To mark 200 years since the death of Carl Maria von Weber, Flora Willson argues that he is undervalued and deserves to be seen as a pivotal figure in 19th-century musical development

RECORDINGS OF LESSER-KNOWN WORKS • A chance to get to know more Weber in a variety of genres

A world of expression • As Manfred Honeck adds Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony to his acclaimed recordings, Lindsay Kemp meets a conductor clearly relishing his Pittsburgh partnership

The Seattle sound • On the launch of his Seattle Chamber Music Society’s own label, which aims to capture the spirit of live performance and collaboration, violinist James Ehnes speaks with Andrew Farach-Colton

The Women Driving Polish Music • Poland has long been a musical beacon but a renaissance in the country’s music, new and old, is being driven by surging interest in its female composers

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • David Gutman on an accomplished account of the Martinů symphonies, set to finally establish their rightful position at the heart of the repertoire

Orchestral

Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasy, Op 56 • Lukas Geniušas talks to Tim Parry about recording this rarely played but highly distinctive work for piano and orchestra

Chamber

THE WORLD‘S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

Scott Ross • The life and career of this American harpsichordist – best known for his remarkable survey of Scarlatti’s sonatas – was tragically cut short at the age of 38. Philip Kennicott pays tribute

Instrumental

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Emily Doolittle • Richard Whitehouse is our guide to the intriguing music of a prolific...