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THE GRAMOPHONE MONTH Last week, as regular readers of our newsletter will know, we launched our newGramophone Archive: more than 1000 issues, dating back to 1923, all available as digital magazines for your iPad or other tablet, iPhone or computer. You can find out more about the archive, and how to subscribe to it, as well as sample some of our favourite features from it, here. Also on our website you can hear Leif Ove Andsnes talk about Beethoven’s Piano Concertos and read an interview with soprano Claire Booth about performing Oliver Knussen’s music. Meanwhile, the November issue ofGramophone, in which we mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Georg Solti, is on sale now. Find out more Click here Martin Cullingford

NEWS

The composer Elliott Carter has died As an indication of just how old the composer Elliott Carter was, who has died aged 103, check out the video below in which he remembers hanging out with Edgard Varèse in a prohibition speakeasy in New York City’s East Village. read more

Lionel Bringuier appointed Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich principal conductor Lionel Bringuier, 26-year-old resident conductor of the LA Philharmonic, has been appointed principal conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich on a four-year contract from the 2014-15 season. read more

Baritone Robert Poulton dies in car crash Baritone Robert Poulton has been killed in a car crash while touring with Glyndebourne Opera. The company cancelled a performance of Rusalka, due to take place at Norwich Theatre Royal, out of respect. read more

THE GRAMOPHONE PLAYER

This month on the Gramophone Player The Gramophone Player opens with an excerpt from the November issue’s Recording of the Month: Beethoven's First and Third Piano Concertos featuring Leif Ove Andsnes directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the piano (Sony Classical). This month's Player is a feast for pianophiles, with Benjamin Grosvenor playing George Gershwin's 'Love Walked In' (Decca), Nelson Freire delivering a beautifully nuanced version of Villa-Lobos' A Lenda do Caboclo (Decca) and three of the most highly recommended recordings in this month's Gramophone  Collection on Ives'Concord Sonata. read more

FROM THE WEBSITE

A New Tonality Philip Clark asks: what are today’s composers to do with tonality? read more

Claire Booth interview The soprano speaks to Hannah Nepil ahead of her starring role in the Barbican's Oliver Knussen weekend. read more

Storm Tracks New York correspondent Albert Imperato describes the music that helped him prepare for Hurricane Sandy in a new blog. read more

ADVANCE REVIEW

‘Sound the Trumpet – Royal Music of Purcell and Handel’ Alison Balsom joins soprano Lucy Crowe, countertenor Iestyn Davies and the English Concert directed by Trevor Pinnock to perform works for Baroque trumpet. read more