Gramophone

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.

Gramophone’s March issue features the French composer Maurice Ravel on the cover. Mark Pullinger explores the output of this fastidious composer, drawing together recurrent themes in a compact and perceptive overview of his music. James Jolly talks to Sir Stephen Hough about the pianist-composer’s new Piano Concerto, released on Hyperion this month; and Hattie Butterworth discusses The Sixteen’s annual Choral Pilgrimage, which reaches its 25th anniversary this year, with the group’s conductor Harry Christophers. In our Icons feature Michael McManus considers the career of the Northern Irish soprano Heather Harper, while in our Contemporary Composer feature Richard Whitehouse introduces the work of the British composer Charlotte Bray and suggests some essential listening. For the Musician and Score, Peter Quantrill talks to pianist Tamara Stefanovich about working with Boulez on the composer’s uncompromising Piano Sonata No 2. In addition, Richard Osborne writes a major Collection feature on Beethoven’s Symphony No 7, considering almost a century of recordings of this great work.