The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)
If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further. All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended.
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Editor's Choice: February 2025 | The best new classical recordings
Featuring outstanding recordings from Sir Simon Rattle, Paavo Järvi, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Calidore Quartet, The Nash Ensemble and more
Timothy Ridout's solo viola journey: ‘The pieces on this album require the most that I can give’
Timothy Ridout chats with Charlotte Gardner about his new centuries-spanning debut solo album and discusses how he’s going about expanding the viola’s repertoire
Alice Sara Ott’s new musical adventure: ‘I really fell in love with the world of John Field’s nocturnes’
Alice Sara Ott has added her own recording to the rather small discography of Field’s nocturnes, creating an album perfectly in keeping with her openness to exploration, finds Jeremy Nicholas
The Gramophone Podcast
Pianist Samson Tsoy on his debut solo album, 'Inmost Heart'
The London-based pianist has built a programme around Brahms - looking back at the past, but also being filtered through a later generation
Pianist Dmitry Masleev on his Dies irae-themed Liszt & Rachmaninov album
The 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition piano first prize winner combines concertante works by Liszt and Rachmaninov with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra
Seong-Jin Cho on Ravel's piano music
The Korean pianist has recorded the complete solo piano works as well as the two piano concertos for DG
James McVinnie on his new album, Dreamcatcher
The organist and pianist on his new recording of contemporary music
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Conductor Daniel Barenboim announces Parkinson's diagnosis
In a statement, the 82-year-old conductor said he still considers his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as 'my most important responsibility'
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Editor's Choice
The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)
If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further. All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended.
Editor's Choice: February 2025 | The best new classical recordings
Featuring outstanding recordings from Sir Simon Rattle, Paavo Järvi, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Calidore Quartet, The Nash Ensemble and more
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Presenting Glass's piano Etudes in their most authentic form
Glass's piano Etudes are frequently performed and recorded in a way that isn't true to the score. It's time to return to what was actually written by the composer
The Introduction and Allegro, and the brilliance of Elgar's writing for strings
With his Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Elgar extended the expressive language of string instruments
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