The November issue of Gramophone features a revealing interview with pianist Bruce Liu, who speaks to Michelle Assay about why he was drawn to the intimacy of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons.

Also in the November issue, for her latest Decca album, ‘The Frans Brüggen Project’, Lucie Horsch was granted special access to the early music pioneer’s extraordinary collection of historical recorders. She tells Charlotte Gardner about the experience of bringing these unique and fragile instruments to life.

Renaissance man Frank Dupree talks to Jeremy Nicholas with boundless enthusiasm about the appeal of Kapustin’s jazz-inspired music and about his own multifaceted career.

In our Collection article this month, Richard Whitehouse surveys the recorded history of Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2, which both acknowledged and broke away from tradition.

Jed Distler remembers the Brazilian musician Nelson Freire, hailed as a pianists’ pianist, whose abilities bordered on the supernatural and who left a treasure-laden legacy on record.

In this month's Classics Reconsidered article, Andrew Farach-Colton and Andrew Achenbach reassess Nigel Kennedy’s first recording – made 40 years ago – of Elgar’s Violin Concerto. And in Musician and the Score, conductor Justin Doyle tells Lindsay Kemp about recording the original version of Bach’s Magnificat in E flat.

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