Gramophone magazine - July 2014 [classical music]

Gramophone magazine (July 2014)

ISSN: 0017-310X | 140 pages | PDF


GRAMOPHONE is a magazine published monthly in London and devoted to classical music, particularly recordings. Packed with features across all classical music genres, its globally acclaimed writers inform and entertain you with independent and intelligent editorial and more than 150 reviews in every issue. Gramophone's reputation is founded on its acclaimed critical analyses of the latest CD releases, in-depth features and interviews with classical stars, and its comprehensive coverage of recorded and live music.

IN THE JULY ISSUE:

* We commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War with our cover-story focusing on the music by those composers whose lives were forever changed by the conflict, including Ralph Vaughan Williams and Arnold Schoenberg;

* We look forward to the world's greatest classical music festival, the BBC Proms, with complete listings of every concert;

* Clarinettist Martin Fröst takes Lindsay Kemp on a guided tour of Brahms's Clarinet Quintet;

* Nalen Anthoni profiles conductor Pierre Monteux, who premiered Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring;

* Arnold Whittall surveys the career of Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies;

* Artur Schnabel's 1932 recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 32 comes under the microscope;

* Duncan Druce presents a Specialist's Guide to viola music;

* Singer/songwriter Ben Folds talks about composing his first piano concerto;

* and there is our newly expanded and completely unrivalled reviews section, featuring reviews of all of this month's essential classical recordings by our eminent and knowledgeable panel of experts: this month's Recording of the Month is Walton's Symphony No 1 and Violin Concerto with violinist Tasmin Little, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner.