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Gramophone Magazine

Jul 01 2022
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.

From studios to stories: some new article ideas

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

Gramophone Magazine

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

Plínio Fernandes joins Decca

Pentatone’s new San Francisco home

Arise Sir Stephen!

Yo-Yo Ma honoured

The Van Cliburn is underway!

ONE TO WATCH • Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux Violin

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

Henry Wood Hall, London • In the first of a new monthly series exploring recording venues, Tim Parry takes us on a tour of a location prized for its fine and flexible acoustic

WHAT NEXT? • In our new bite-size feature, Richard Bratby takes as his starting point Rimsky-Korsakov’s glorious Sheherazade – where will his listening journey lead?

Mezzo Teresa Berganza remembered

Yo-Yo Ma • We talk to the cellist about winning the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize

›itches, bitches and mothers-in-law • In the first of a free-ranging new series, James Jolly meets one of the UK’s great vocal Dames, the mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, to talk about her long and varied career

Letter of the Month • Dame Janet Baker: superlative in Mahler

NOTES & LETTERS

OBITUARIES

NEXT MONTH AUGUST 2020

GRANOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2022 Orchestra of the Year

Close Encounters IN THE CONCERT HALL • Andrew Farach-Colton explores the concertos of John Williams, talking to conductor Leonard Slatkin, as well as to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter about works newly written and newly revised

NEW RELEASES from ONDINE

Alone with MESSIAEN • His decision to record Vingt Regards in total isolation allowed Bertrand Chamayou truly to immerse himself in the work’s profound spirituality, as he tells Tim Parry

RISING TENOR • Freddie De Tommaso made waves when he stood in for an indisposed colleague at Covent Garden but, as Hugo Shirley discovers, this British-Italian tenor is here to stay

GRAMOHOME RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Harriet Smith applauds an extraordinary and revelatory album of Ravel from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, including the two piano concertos with Cédric Tiberghien

Orchestral

NELSONS CONDUCTS STRAUSS • Hugo Shirley feasts on a generous serving of Richard Strauss’s orchestral music from Andris Nelsons and his orchestras in Boston and Leipzig

JOHN WILLIAMS’S CONCERTOS • Edward Seckerson enjoys exploring a less familiar side to John Williams, including music written for and played by two star instrumentalists

Debussy’s Jeux • Conductor Domingo Hindoyan tells Mark Pullinger about plumbing the depths of this late work

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Mark Reizen • Tully Potter celebrates the Ukrainian bass with a gigantic stature, sound and repertoire who made his mark in the 1920s and still had a remarkable voice in 1985, at the age of 90

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

Michael Berkeley • Geraint Lewis traces the career so far of this English composer whose creativity continues to emerge even as he approaches...


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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.

From studios to stories: some new article ideas

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

Gramophone Magazine

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

Plínio Fernandes joins Decca

Pentatone’s new San Francisco home

Arise Sir Stephen!

Yo-Yo Ma honoured

The Van Cliburn is underway!

ONE TO WATCH • Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux Violin

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

Henry Wood Hall, London • In the first of a new monthly series exploring recording venues, Tim Parry takes us on a tour of a location prized for its fine and flexible acoustic

WHAT NEXT? • In our new bite-size feature, Richard Bratby takes as his starting point Rimsky-Korsakov’s glorious Sheherazade – where will his listening journey lead?

Mezzo Teresa Berganza remembered

Yo-Yo Ma • We talk to the cellist about winning the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize

›itches, bitches and mothers-in-law • In the first of a free-ranging new series, James Jolly meets one of the UK’s great vocal Dames, the mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, to talk about her long and varied career

Letter of the Month • Dame Janet Baker: superlative in Mahler

NOTES & LETTERS

OBITUARIES

NEXT MONTH AUGUST 2020

GRANOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2022 Orchestra of the Year

Close Encounters IN THE CONCERT HALL • Andrew Farach-Colton explores the concertos of John Williams, talking to conductor Leonard Slatkin, as well as to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter about works newly written and newly revised

NEW RELEASES from ONDINE

Alone with MESSIAEN • His decision to record Vingt Regards in total isolation allowed Bertrand Chamayou truly to immerse himself in the work’s profound spirituality, as he tells Tim Parry

RISING TENOR • Freddie De Tommaso made waves when he stood in for an indisposed colleague at Covent Garden but, as Hugo Shirley discovers, this British-Italian tenor is here to stay

GRAMOHOME RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Harriet Smith applauds an extraordinary and revelatory album of Ravel from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, including the two piano concertos with Cédric Tiberghien

Orchestral

NELSONS CONDUCTS STRAUSS • Hugo Shirley feasts on a generous serving of Richard Strauss’s orchestral music from Andris Nelsons and his orchestras in Boston and Leipzig

JOHN WILLIAMS’S CONCERTOS • Edward Seckerson enjoys exploring a less familiar side to John Williams, including music written for and played by two star instrumentalists

Debussy’s Jeux • Conductor Domingo Hindoyan tells Mark Pullinger about plumbing the depths of this late work

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Mark Reizen • Tully Potter celebrates the Ukrainian bass with a gigantic stature, sound and repertoire who made his mark in the 1920s and still had a remarkable voice in 1985, at the age of 90

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

Michael Berkeley • Geraint Lewis traces the career so far of this English composer whose creativity continues to emerge even as he approaches...


Expand title description text