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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GRAMOPHONE Editor’s choice • Decades spent with this music bear fruit in a powerfully expressive performance; the second Recording of the Month in a row from a truly wonderful conductor.

FOR THE RECORD • Alexandra Whittingham deal

ONE TO WATCH

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Decca Records • In the first of a new series charting the history of classical record labels, Tim Parry starts with one of the most iconic of all

James MacMillan • We meet the composer as he receives the Ivors Academy Fellowship

WHAT NEXT? • It was initially greeted with bafflement but, as Richard Whitehouse is reminded, Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor played a crucial role in the evolution of musical form

NEXT MONTH MAY 2024

Seiji Ozawa 1935-2024 • As the music world mourns the death of a great conductor, Richard Osborne examines how his musicianship developed and the valuable legacy he leaves behind

CARTE BLANCHE • As he celebrates ten years as the Director of Leeds Lieder, Joseph Middleton talks to James Jolly about his passion for song and bringing new audiences to the art form

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 • Thanks for the memories!

OBITUAR IES

Mixing it up • From bridging genres to challenging cultural expectations, Dalia Stasevska is a conductor for our modern times. Kate Molleson meets her

A beacon of excellence • Sir Neville Marriner, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this April, was a central pillar of post-war British musicmaking, maintaining consistency and distinction despite the shifting sands of a rapidly changing musical landscape. Richard Osborne remembers a life of collaboration and accomplishment

A fresh look at FAURÉ • Lucas Debargue has an aversion to standardisation and blind respectfulness to the composer. Andrew Farach-Colton hears of his approach to his fellow countryman’s solo piano music on the release of his new complete set

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Edward Seckerson hears Simon Rattle instil a lifetime of experience into Mahler’s Sixth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the results as fine as any on record

Orchestral

RACHMANINOV IN BERLIN • Mark Pullinger welcomes a rare foray by the Berlin Philharmonic into the music of the great Russian Romantic as his 150th anniversary approached

Smetana’s Má vlast • Semyon Bychkov tells Michael McManus why this Czech work is a universal masterpiece

Chamber

Sesto Bruscantini • Tully Potter celebrates the Italian baritone whose voice and persona had all the necessary qualities for comedic roles but who was also eminently capable of taking on more serious parts

Instrumental

Lotta Wennäkoski • Clarity and colour are key in the music of this Finn who has...