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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:

In this month's Gramophone we talk to Jonas Kaufmann, perhaps the starriest tenor since Pavarotti, about his new recording of Wagner’s Parsifal, as well as discussing other repertoire from Puccini to Strauss. Other major interviews this month include fellow tenor - and demonstrating how varied that voice can be - Cyrille Dubois, plus conductor and devoted champion of music both known and unfamiliar, JoAnn Falletta. Our Contemporary Composer this issue is American composer Elena Ruehr, while the Musician & the Score focusses on Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata in the company of Beatrice Rana. Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates the legacy of the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in Icons, while in Classics Reconsidered we revisit Brigitte Fassbaender’s gripping yet uncompromising 1988 recording of Schubert’s Winterreise. The Collection examines Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony, tracing its recorded history and recommending the best versions to listen to - plus, as always, our world-leading critics review the latest classical music releases on CD, DVD and download, with the best being crowned ‘Editor’s Choice’.

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  • First Issue: April 1923
  • Latest Issue: March 2024
  • Issue Count: 1,274
  • Page Count: 146,058
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-531X