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.

Different perspectives on music-making • 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 • The culmination of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s Beethoven sonata cycle reflects throughout their rewarding connection both to the music and to each other.

FOR THE RECORD • Jeneba Kanneh-Mason joins Sony Classical

ONE TO WATCH • Tim Posner Cello

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Bridge Records • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of an American label with a strong sense of identity

Paul Wee • The pianist on recording neglected concertos by Henselt and Bronsart

IN THIS MONTH’S OPERA NOW • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the latest edition of Gramophone’s sister title devoted to opera

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From silver screen to the concert hall • With a new album of ‘concert’ music just out, the film composer Danny Elfman talks to James Jolly about balancing the different sides of music output, and writing for soloists

NOTES & LETTERS

The renaissance of George Jeffreys

OBITUARIES

Baroque CHAMPION • As violinist Rachel Podger releases her new album of early English music, Mark Seow meets her to reminisce, discover what she has planned for the future – and find out what lies behind her ever-exploring spirit

Striking CHORDS • About to release another album of rare 18th-century gems, Ensemble Diderot is attracting increasing levels of positive attention. Founder Johannes Pramsohler tells Charlotte Gardner about the group’s projects and plans

Mutlicoloured BRAHMS • The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s latest project pairs unjustly neglected contemporaries of Brahms with the master himself, resulting in a series of imaginative contrasts – as founders Tom Poster and Elena Urioste tell Richard Bratby

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Rob Cowan catches up with a Beethoven violin sonata cycle as it reaches its final volume and finds consistently impressive performances of interpretative insight and dramatic intensity

Orchestral

CPE Bach’s Double Concerto, H479 • Longtime musical collaborators Céline Frisch and Alexander Melnikov talk to Richard Bratby about CPE Bach’s deliciously inventive concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano

Chamber

Patrick Savage • The violinist and film composer on his album of concert works by Golden Age Hollywood greats

Klaus Tennstedt • David Patrick Stearns celebrates a conductor who, for all his eccentricities, earned admiration from the likes of Karajan, and who left a significant recorded legacy, both live and in the studio

Instrumental

Matthew Taylor • This prolific British composer is adept at writing for both small- and large-scale forces in a mainstream tonal idiom, says Guy Rickards

TAYLOR RECORDINGS • Exploring his output – from string quartets to symphonies

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Mellor explores a range of Scandinavian...