Editor's Choice: February 2025 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Featuring outstanding recordings from Sir Simon Rattle, Paavo Järvi, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Calidore Quartet, The Nash Ensemble and more
Features
Timothy Ridout's solo viola journey: ‘The pieces on this album require the most that I can give’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
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’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
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
Why do we get nostalgic about hi-fi equipment?
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Are we returning to our old favourites? Or is the trend for nostalgic designs tapping into a desire for the hi-fi of the past?
Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (February 2025)
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Richard Bratby explores a range of web-based operas and concerts
Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 3: inside the score with Cristian Măcelaru
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Cristian Măcelaru tells Christian Hoskins about the special qualities of this final symphony
Gramophone talks to ... Paavo Järvi: ‘Recording has always been a posterity issue – it’s never been about money’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
The conductor on his latest Haydn ‘London’ symphonies recording
Contemporary composer: Detlev Glanert
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Guy Rickards champions the German composer, now in his sixties, much of whose vast and intriguing output is still to be set down on record
The Gramophone Guide to … Audio Housekeeping!
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Modern systems require a lot less fiddling and adjustment to optimise performance than their historic counterparts, but there are a still a few tips to try
Arcana: a guide to the influential record label
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Tim Parry explores the history and catalogue of a much-admired French label
Classics Reconsidered: Orff’s Carmina Burana (Eugen Jochum)
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan ponder the classic status of Eugen Jochum’s second recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana, set down in 1967
The immense diversity of the music we cover
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the February issue of Gramophone
Directing the director - filming music
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Ahead of a new memoir, James Jolly speaks to the veteran director Brian Large about how you present concerts and opera for the small screen in a domestic setting
Interview: Kent Nagano on recreating the 1868 premiere of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Kent Nagano has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem as it was presented at the work’s Bremen premiere on Good Friday 1868, without the yet-to-be-composed fifth movement, but with musical interpolations and vast choral forces. Andrew Farach-Colton finds out more
Daisy Knatchbull - My Music: ‘I think, like music, clothes are a real vehicle to understanding oneself’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
The founder of Knatchbull, the first all-female tailors on Savile Row, on music in her life
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