Gramophone

Archived since April 1923

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Gramophone has been the world’s leading authority on classical music since 1923. With 13 issues a year every edition will enrich your classical music knowledge with in-depth interviews and features about composers past and present, plus established and new artists from across the globe. Each issue includes over 100 reviews of the latest CDs, downloads, DVDs and books all written by our globally acclaimed panel of expert critics. Gramophone is an essential magazine for students and performers of classical music.

Please note: This is the North American edition of Gramophone. It includes all the pages of the UK edition and also a specialised 16 page supplement each issue, “Sounds of America”. This details the most exciting musical developments across North America as well as reviewing the most interesting specialist American releases.

Latest Issue:

This month's cover artist is the young British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason who talks to us about his new recording of Shostakovich and Britten. We also celebrate the 50th birthday of the Takács Quartet as they release their latest album of music by Dvorák and Florence Price, and sit in on the sessions as Pierre-Laurent Aimard records the largest selection yet from György Kurtág’s Játékok. This month's Icons focus is Russian pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky, and the Contemporary Composer focus is the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. In Musician and the Score,

Edward Gardner talks us through the joys and challenges of conducting Richard Strauss’s one-act opera Salome, while the focus of this issue's Collection is Prokoviev’s Piano Concerto No 3. We also bring you our annual Summer Festivals Guide, and actor and playwright Oliver Cotton shares his memories of studying classical guitar in My Music. Plus, the latest classical music albums reviewed by our expert critics, with the very best named Editor's Choices.

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