Gramophone’s first issue was April 1923, and so our April 2023 issue is a special celebratory centenary edition. Features include a major history of the magazine – and by extension of classical ...

Isabelle Faust, who always leaves us hearing even familiar works as if freshly discovered, joins forces with a conductor whose mission could be defined in exactly the same way. An enticing insight ...

The extraordinary work holds a particularly personal power for Stella Chen - so how did early critics get it so wrong?

As it is announced that Hyperion Records has been bought by Universal it seemed like the perfect opportunity to listen again to 20 of the great British independent label's most outstanding recordings, ...

In this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talks to the two violinists of the Tippett Quartet – John Mills and Jeremy Issacs – about the group's new recording of the three string ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) has acquired the multi-Gramophone Award-winning British classical label Hyperion Records. Hyperion (founded by Ted Perry in 1980) will join UMG’s portfolio, taking its ...

The Britten Sinfonia has launched a public appeal to secure its future following the withdrawal in November of its funding as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. The decision – ...

The soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has just released an album of Richard Strauss, two late works – the Four Last Songs and the Closing scene from the opera Capriccio. On this new Sony Classical ...

Marking a century is a momentous occasion for any magazine. But in Gramophone’s case it’s not just our own longevity we’re celebrating, as our history really mirrors that of the very thing we cover: ...

It must have been divine providence that saw Johann Sebastian Bach born on March 21 – the first day of astronomical spring. Three and a half centuries after that monumental day in Europe’s cultural ...