Gramophone Magazine

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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.

A month of musical encounters of real breadth • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

Gramophone Magazine • Volume 104 Number 1266

Editors Choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Yunchan Lim to open the BBC Proms

Jan Liebermann organist

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Odradek Records • In our latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry reports on a non-profit company with a distinctive artistic model

IN THE NEW EDITION OF OPERA NOW • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Dominic Fyfe • Decca Classics’s Label Director on re-releasing Dorati’s Haydn symphonies

Michael Tilson Thomas December 21, 1944 - April 22, 2026 • Edward Seckerson – who co-wrote a book with the conductor, composer and pianist – pays a personal tribute to this generous-spirted and profoundly musical artist

Frauenliebe, Op 60 • Mark Pullinger examines a little-known song-cycle that preceded but is overshadowed by the more famous setting by Schumann

A great record maker looks back • As Warner Classics/Erato’s Alain Lanceron is named Chairman Emeritus, James Jolly visits him in Paris to hear about his long career and his love of music

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

Letter of the Month • Broadening horizons for the classical guitar

OBITUARIES

NEXT MONTH JULY 2026

BEETHOVEN and beyond • Richard Bratby meets the ever-exploratory violinist Alina Ibragimova to chat about her multifaceted performing career, recording Beethoven and her appetite for new discoveries

Made for Martinů • Conductor Jakub Hrůša, a longtime advocate for the music of fellow Czech Martinů, has recorded the complete symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon. Nigel Simeone meets him

TEXAN Gold • Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra made US history in 2024 when they performed Wagner’s Ring cycle – a set now released on record. Scott Cantrell reports on an extraordinary achievement, and hears from some of those involved

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Charlotte Gardner on a heaven-made Beethoven match: Alessio Bax and Paul Watkins playing as one in a revelatory account of the cello sonatas

Orchestral

THE GREAT PIANISTS • Discover the greatest pianists, their repertoire and recordings in this 100-page collectors’ edition, bringing together the very finest writing from Gramophone and International Piano

Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony • Nathalie Stutzmann tells Christian Hoskins about bringing Bruckner to Atlanta

Chamber

Juilliard Quartet • This ensemble is still going strong 80 years since its first formation, and it is precisely that lineup and those that immediately followed which Tully Potter considers for this profile

Instrumental

LATIN AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC • Jed Distler explores...