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THE GRAMOPHONE MONTH We explore the music of Wagner in the May edition of Gramophone – out now – with some of today’s leading performers of his major roles as our guides, including Gerald Finley, Nina Stemme, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann. The new issue also contains a comprehensive guide to this summer's festival season. Meanwhile in this newsletter, you can catch up on all the latest classical music news headlines, listen to excerpts from the finest new releases in the GramophonePlayer, and celebrate the 70th birthday of one of today’s leading conductors, Sir John Eliot Gardiner: we’ve put together a digimag containing 70 reviews of his recordings from the Gramophone archives – and you candownload it all for free.  Find out more Click here Martin Cullingford

NEWS

BBC Proms 2013 announced Daniel Barenboim conducts a Ring cycle, while Marin Alsop conducts the Last Night. read more

Pianist Conrad Tao signs exclusively to EMI Young American pianist Conrad Tao has signed an exclusive recording contract with EMI and will release his debut full-length album, ‘Voyages’, in June. read more

Winner of the London Handel Singing Competition announced The winner of the 12th Handel Singing Competition has been named as Rupert Charlesworth. The tenor triumphed at the final held at St George’s, Hanover Square in London to take the Regina Etz Prize and also the Audience Prize. read more

THE GRAMOPHONE PLAYER

This month on the Gramophone Player The Gramophone Player opens with an excerpt from the May issue’s Recording of the Month: Haydn Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 and 11 performed by Marc-André Hamelin and Les Violons du Roy conducted by Bernard Labadie (Hyperion). Also featured this month are Steven Isserlis’s ‘In the Shadow of War’, an album of Bloch, Bridge and Hough (Bis); Vaughan Williams’s Symphonies Nos 5 and 8 from the Hallé Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder (Hallé); Tine Thing Helseth in ‘Tine’, her self-titled album of trumpet works with Kathryn Stott (EMI); Wagner Opera Arias from Jonas Kaufmann conducted by Donald Runnicles (Decca); and Bach’s St John Passionperformed by Polyphony and the OAE under Stephen Layton (Hyperion).  read more

FROM THE WEBSITE

Happy Birthday Sir John Eliot! To mark Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s 70th birthday, Gramophone has produced a free digital magazine gathering together the reviews of 70 of his recordings – ranging from his Erato and EMI days, through his DG and Philips period, to the launch of his own label, SDG. Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly also spoke to the conductor about some of his key recordings in a free podcast from iTunes. read more

90th anniversary interviews: Rafael Kubelík To celebrate Gramophone's 90th anniversary this month we are reprinting a series of classic interviews from the archive. Rafael Kubelík spoke to Alan Blyth for Gramophone in March 1968. read more

Touring China with the Russian National Orchestra Spreading the message that music, of all kinds, transcends cultural and political barriers, writes conductor José Serebrier in a new blog. read more

ADVANCE REVIEW

Berlioz – Grande Messe des Morts Sir Colin Davis’s final recording, with the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra. read more

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