Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1981
- Friday, April 11, 2025
All of the winners of the 1981 edition of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, headlined by a Recording of the Year Award for Karajan's Parsifal
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Paradise Lost[?] in Wrocław
- Thursday, April 3, 2025
Wratislavia Cantans marks its 60th anniversary with the question ‘Paradise Lost [?]’ – ten days of music, premieres, and philosophical reflection on humanity’s capacity for both ruin and redemption
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1980
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
A look back at the winning recordings of the 1980 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. featuring Charles Mackerras, Trevor Pinnock, Bernard Haitink and Krystian Zimerman
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1979
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The 1979 Gramophone Awards recognised recordings from the Beaux Arts Trio, Maurizio Pollini, Teresa Stratas, Elisabeth Söderström and André Previn
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1978
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Looking back at the winning recordings of the 1978 Gramophone Awards, featuring Janet Baker, Simon Rattle, Alfred Brendel, Plácido Domingo and more
10 operatic hidden gems you've probably never heard of
- Monday, March 24, 2025
From biblical floods and medieval sieges to a peasant girl wandering the hills of Northern France with a goat, Opera Rara's Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi shines a spotlight on lesser-known works by 19th and 20th century operatic masters
Setting sail into Verdi: Opera Rara and the 1857 Simon Boccanegra
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Mark Pullinger meets Opera Rara’s Henry Little and Roger Parker to discover why they’ve studio-recorded a rare version of the Verdi, and hears from two of the young singers involved
Vivaldi's Gloria: a guide to the greatest recordings
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Vivaldi’s Gloria, RV589, has long been a favourite of choral societies and a fixture on recordings. Lindsay Kemp traces the work’s re-emergence following two centuries of neglect
The best online classical concerts and events this month (April 2025)
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts
How to make the most of your speakers
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Changing loudspeakers will always alter the sound of your hi-fi system, but you can often achieve as much by optimising the set-up of the speakers you already have
Visiting Gustav Mahler’s spiritual home: Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw
- Friday, March 21, 2025
With Amsterdam’s Mahler Festival 2025 coming up, James Jolly reports from the Concertgebouw, and finds out about the city’s long association with the composer
Contemporary composer: Ole Buck
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Andrew Mellor directs our attention towards one of Scandinavia’s most stringent and spiritual minimalists
Record label guide: Ricercar
- Friday, March 21, 2025
In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry considers a Belgian company with a strong sense of identity
Bach’s Mass in B minor: inside the score, with Raphaël Pichon
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Raphaël Pichon shares with Mark Seow his vision of a work both shocking and beautiful: Bach’s Mass in B minor
Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, March 21, 2025
In our latest introduction to the history and recordings of a less familiar work, David Threasher explores a choral gem that remains off many people’s radar: Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor
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