Video: remembering Rostropovich with Isserlis, Gergiev and Penderecki

• Monday, March 20, 2017

Special insights from those who knew the cellist best

Contemporary composer: Augusta Read Thomas

• Monday, March 20, 2017

This composer’s career may have been spent in teaching but her music is hardly staid and academic, argues Richard Whitehouse

Contemporary composer: Jennifer Higdon

• Monday, March 20, 2017

Her music may be melodic and accessible, but probe beneath the surface and you’ll always be surprised, writes Andrew Farach-Colton

Contemporary composer: Thomas Adès

• Monday, March 20, 2017

Vanishing spirals, time, entrapment and reference: Pwyll ap Siôn explores what characterises this British composer’s works

Contemporary composer: Sally Beamish

• Sunday, March 19, 2017

Kate Molleson looks at the music of an abundantly gifted creative spirit with a passion for folk music

Vote now in the Gramophone Hall of Fame 2017

• Friday, March 17, 2017

Editor Martin Cullingford invites you to vote for the people that you think should join the Gramophone Hall of Fame this year.

Take the Slow Train

• Friday, March 17, 2017

Top 10 classical recordings with Irish connections

• Friday, March 17, 2017

From Thomas Roseingrave to Gerald Barry, this selection of recordings shows the diversity of music-making in Ireland

Derek Walcott | My Music: ‘Even if my knowledge is limited, in terms of appreciation, Mozart swings!’

• Friday, March 17, 2017

The Nobel Prize-winning poet on opera writing, music and Caribbean speech melodies

Video: a perfect match – Bach on a Stradivari violin

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Samuel Staples plays the 'Ex-Croall; McEwen' made by Antonio Stradivari in 1684, and now offered for sale

Contemporary composer: Nico Muhly

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Kate Molleson charts the inexorable rise of Philip Glass’s former assistant, who has gone on to become one of the most sought after and commissioned composers of his generation

Contemporary composer: Christopher Fox

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Philip Clark champions a British composer whose music is impossible to categorise

Contemporary composer: Georg Friedrich Haas

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Philip Clark on the Austrian composer championed by today’s great maestros

Contemporary composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

A powerful understanding of the symphony orchestra makes the Finnish conductor an inspiring composer, finds Arnold Whittall

Contemporary composer: David Lang

• Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Los Angeles native creates music of pristine beauty through the pared-down purity of his scores, says Kate Molleson