Introducing the March 2025 issue of Gramophone, featuring Ravel at 150

Friday, February 21, 2025

Ravel: exploring the composer and his music on his 150th anniversary | Beethoven's Symphony No 7: the best recordings of an orchestral masterpiece

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Interview: Harry Christophers on The Sixteen's 25th annual Choral Pilgrimage

As The Sixteen prepare for their 25th annual Choral Pilgrimage, Hattie Butterworth hears from...

Interview: Stephen Hough on the genesis of his piano concerto, The World of Yesterday

As Stephen Hough releases his recording of his own piano concerto, he shares the story of the work’s...

Trudie Styler interview: 'When the concertmaster started playing the violin solo I just remember bursting into tears'

The director, producer and actor on how the music of Naples helped her tell the city’s story in her...

Unravelling Maurice Ravel: a portrait of the composer at 150

To mark the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, Mark Pullinger conjures a portrait of this...

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony: a guide to the greatest recordings

Richard Osborne explores how conductors have approached this most elemental of Beethoven symphonies...

Contemporary composer: Charlotte Bray

Richard Whitehouse introduces the varied output of the strong-voiced, Berlin-based British composer...

Box-set Round-up: March 2025 (Edith Farnadi, Aline van Barentzen, Christine Walevska)

Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer

Rebuild it and they will come: visiting San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center

A return to Southern California finds James Jolly in awe of the $125 million refurbishment of the...

Classics Reconsidered: Elgar Symphony No 1 (London Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin)

David Gutman and Andrew Farach-Colton discuss Leonard Slatkin’s 1989 recording of Elgar’s First...

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