Gramophone | April 2025
This month’s Gramophone features American tenor Jonathan Tetelman on the cover – Editor Martin Cullingford met him in Rome as he recorded the role of Cavaradossi in Deutsche Grammophon’s new recording of Puccini’s Tosca. Plus, as Opera Rara, Gramophone’s current Label of the Year, releases the lesser-known 1857 version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Mark Pullinger finds out more about resurrecting this version and the label’s distinctive philosophy. Elsewhere in the issue, in Icons, Tully Potter considers the career and enormous influence of the English viola player Lionel Tertis; in Classics Reconsidered, Rob Cowan and Jeremy Nicholas return to Leon Fleisher’s 1964 release of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, with The Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell; while Collection sees Lindsay Kemp listen to the available recordings of Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, and recommends the best versions. Our Contemporary Composers feature this month focuses on the music of the Danish composer Ole Buck, while in Musician & the Score, Mark Seow talks to the conductor Raphaël Pichon about recording Bach’s B minor Mass for Harmonia Mundi. Plus, as always, our expert critics reviews the latest releases, and the best are named Editor’s Choices.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Gramophone April 2025.