Gramophone | March 2025
Gramophone’s March issue features the French composer Maurice Ravel on the cover. Mark Pullinger explores the output of this fastidious composer, drawing together recurrent themes in a compact and perceptive overview of his music.
James Jolly talks to Sir Stephen Hough about the pianist-composer’s new Piano Concerto, released on Hyperion this month; and Hattie Butterworth discusses The Sixteen’s annual Choral Pilgrimage, which reaches its 25th anniversary this year, with the group’s conductor Harry Christophers.
In our Icons feature Michael McManus considers the career of the Northern Irish soprano Heather Harper, while in our Contemporary Composer feature Richard Whitehouse introduces the work of the British composer Charlotte Bray and suggests some essential listening.
For the Musician and Score, Peter Quantrill talks to pianist Tamara Stefanovich about working with Boulez on the composer’s uncompromising Piano Sonata No 2.
In addition, Richard Osborne writes a major Collection feature on Beethoven’s Symphony No 7, considering almost a century of recordings of this great work.
