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.

Classical music’s place on a world stage • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD

Shaping singers’ careers with passion • This month James Jolly meets the head of one of the most-admired artist management agencies specialising in singers, MWA Management, Maria Mot

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Spiritual roots • As Arvo Pärt enters his tenth decade, Andrew Mellor examines how the worlds of contemporary music, recording, performance practice and geopolitics continue to respond to this most pivotal of figures

Songs of PASSION • Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford’s new album of Dowland and Purcell with the Jupiter ensemble is very much a ‘family’ affair, as they tell Mark Seow

Symphonic champion • Could a composer ask for a more sincere and committed advocate than conductor Andrew Manze? As he releases a new recording with his beloved RLPO, he chats with Andrew Mellor about his many and varied projects and plans

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Jeremy Dibble is awed by a collection of Bach organ works, transcribed by Sir Andrew Davis and recorded with the BBC Philharmonic, a project majestically completed by Martyn Brabbins

Orchestral

Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 • Mahan Esfahani joins Richard Bratby to home in on dilemmas surrounding the sources for this pivotal work

Chamber

FROM LATVIA WITH LOVE • Andrew Mellor greets a series of recordings issued by Skani, the Latvian Music Information Centre’s label, celebrating its 10th anniversary

Edith Farnadi • Jeremy Nicholas champions an almost forgotten Hungarian pianist who not only worked as teaching assistant to Bartók but also played under some of the great European conductors

Instrumental

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GRAMOPHONE • THE WORLD‘S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

Ian Venables • At 70, this British composer is at the peak of his powers, writes Richard Whitehouse

Vocal

Closely eyes-on chamber dynamics • Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts

Opera

Ciccolini’s complete Erato recordings • Jed Distler dives into an essential collection issued to mark the pianist’s centenary

JAZZ AND WORLD MUSIC REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise and Songlines, recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

BOX-SET Round-up • Rob Cowan dips into conductor collections devoted to three larger-than-life personalities

Strings attached • Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings

Classics RECONSIDERED • Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan return to the first recording of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites,...