The Gramophone Schedule

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Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London by Haymarket devoted to classical music and jazz, particularly recordings.

A separate strand of criticism, consistently voiced in the forum on its website, is that its reviews have become shorter, and often fail to make comparisons with other published performances.

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The most common grounds for criticism are a perceived bias towards British composers and performers, an alleged preference for bland, middle-of-the-road performances, and its close commercial relationship with big recording companies such as EMI.

It was founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie.

The magazine presents the Gramophone Awards each year to the classical recordings which it considers the finest in a variety of categories.In the title bar of its website, as of January 2007, Gramophone claims to be: "The world's best classical music magazine." This boast used to appear on the front cover of every issue, although recent editions have changed the wording to "The world's unrivalled authority on classical music since 1923." Its international readership appears to have been challenged by BBC Music Magazine.Since 1925, the magazine also reviews jazz recordings "Jazz and its successor" May 1925 and publishes The Gramophone Jazz Good CD Guide. The Gramophone Jazz Good CD GuideGramophone is often the subject of criticism, particularly by commentators in the United States.