Gramophone Magazine

Gramophone enriches your classical music experience and connects you with great recordings.

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.

Artists of the past, present – and future! • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

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Editor’s choice

FOR THE RECORD • Praemium Imperiale honours Blomstedt

Ben Michaels – Cello

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Alia Vox • In our latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry introduces an artist-led Spanish imprint built on personal vision and collaboration

IN THE NEW EDITION OF CHOIR & ORGAN • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Autumn issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Harry Bicket • The conductor on his triumphant new recording of Handel’s Giulio Cesare

Intermezzo • Tim Ashley introduces Strauss’s comic opera in two acts, set to his own libretto and premiered in 1924, and recommends his favourite recording

Where opera blooms in the Cotswolds • James Jolly pays a visit to Longborough Festival Opera as it approaches its 30th birthday to meet its Artistic Director Polly Graham and CEO Emily Gottlieb

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OBITUARIES

NEXT MONTH AWARDS 2026

The power of the pulse • As Steve Reich celebrates his 90th birthday, Pwyll ap Siôn talks to musical artists influenced by the American minimalist, and begins a celebratory journey of his own

THE BEATING HEART OF REICH’S MUSIC • Recordings of four pieces to quicken the pulse

Shared discoveries • Five seasons into his tenure as Chief Conductor of the RLPO, Domingo Hindoyan enhances an already impressive discography with a colourful, risk-taking tribute to Manuel de Falla to mark 150 years since the composer’s birth. Richard Bratby meets him

The magnificence of Machaut • Tim Keeler, Music Director of US vocal ensemble Chanticleer, chats with Andrew Farach-Colton about finding the ideal medieval sound

THE SHORTLIST • A wonderful summer of listening and voting for the 2026 Gramophone Classical Music Awards is over. These 33 recordings, three per category, comprise our final shortlist. The winners will be revealed at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards and at gramophone.co.uk along with the special awards on October 7, when we also name the Recording of the Year.

A classic reborn • Cambridge-based audio brand ARCAM is celebrating half a century with two new products that distil five decades of expertise in stereo sound – could they represent the finest amplifier and CD player it has ever made?

SEASON PREVIEW 2026-27 • Jack Pepper provides an outline of some of the coming season’s performance highlights in the UK, Europe, North America and beyond

A SEASON WORTH TRAVELLING FOR 26 OPERA 27 SEASON • WHERE THE WORLD’S GREATEST VOICES MEET

A New Voice Emerges • As his career enters a new phase, Christopher Jessup looks back on recording a new work composed for the London Symphony Orchestra

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Edward Breen welcomes a recording of Giulio Cesare that fully acknowledges the musical and dramatic qualities...