Introducing the centenary issue of Gramophone: celebrating a century of recorded classical music

Friday, March 17, 2023

Including a major history of Gramophone magazine – and by extension of classical recording itself

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Leonard Bernstein: 'It’s much harder to write a tune in F major than to compose a three-hour 12-tone sonata’ | Classic interview

Leonard Bernstein spoke to Alan Blyth for the September 1970 issue...

Was Rachmaninov the most complete musician of the past 150 years?

Sergey Rachmaninov was a remarkable artist who excelled as composer, conductor and pianist

The 50 best Mozart recordings

50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and...

Classic interview with Arthur Rubinstein: 'I’ve told my family to shoot me if I go on too long'

The legendary pianist speaks to Alan Blyth (Gramophone, November 1968)

Birgit Nilsson interview: 'I passed over a bridge I thought really of jumping in. If performing in opera was like this, I couldn’t go on' | Classic interview

Birgit Nilsson spoke to Alan Blyth for Gramophone's January 1970 issue...

The 50 best Beethoven recordings

50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews,...

Otto Klemperer: 'I always say that it’s the orchestra that makes the music, not the conductor' | Classic interview

Otto Klemperer spoke to Alan Blyth for the May 1970 issue...

The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings

50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available – complete with the original Gramophone reviews –...

Karajan At 80 – Richard Osborne talks to Herbert von Karajan (Gramophone, April 1988)

‘Fortunately, I was not born to obey’, Karajan told me with a disarming chuckle as we sat in his...

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