Gramophone Magazine

In the October issue of Gramophone, we celebrate the 90th birthday of composer Steve Reich by speaking to musicians and fellow composers who have been influenced by his music, including Nico Muhly, Kuniko Kato, Colin Currie and Zoë Martlew.
Also this month, Richard Bratby explores the music of Manuel de Falla with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, and Andrew Farach-Colton talks to US vocal ensemble Chanticleer’s Tim Keeler about recording Machaut.
In addition, we have two indispensable guides this month – our 2026-27 Season Preview, which gives an overview of the most exciting concerts and operas from venues and ensembles worldwide, and our Gramophone Awards Shortlist, which reveals the three shortlisted recordings in each of our recording categories.
For this month’s Collection, David Threasher compares recordings of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, and in a new feature this month – Collection Revisited – Richard Osborne updates his survey of recordings of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In Classics Reconsidered, Charlotte Gardner and Mark Seow discuss Nigel Kennedy’s 1989 recording of The Four Seasons and, in Icons, Richard Fairman remembers the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died aged just 52.
The Japanese Ambassador to the UK, Hiroshi Suzuki, shares his love of classical music in My Music, and for our Contemporary Composers series, Gavin Dixon introduces the fascinatingly diverse works of Alexander Raskatov.
And, as always, there are our unrivalled reviews of new, reissued and archive recordings, including Gustavo Dudamel’s Schumann cycle, Beethoven from the Doric Quartet and Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto from The English Concert.