Editor's Choice: August 2024 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, July 12, 2024
This month we feature outstanding new recordings from Konstantin Krimmel, Rebeca Omordia, Paavo Järvi and Gustavo Dudamel
Features
Meeting Joana Mallwitz: ‘It’s funny: people don’t know what they’re missing if they’ve not heard Kurt Weill’s symphonies’
- Friday, July 12, 2024
As her recording of Kurt Weill symphonies, her first album for DG, is about to be released, conductor Joana Mallwitz speaks with Richard Bratby
Charles Ives at 150: The Sound of America
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Charles Ives evoked his country like few others, and to mark 150 years since his birth, Andrew Farach-Colton delves into the life and music of this most unconventional figure
Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata stands among the finest achievements of his later years. Charles Timbrell makes a personal selection from its substantial discography
Bruckner’s Symphony No 7: inside the score, with Manfred Honeck
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Conductor Manfred Honeck talks to David Patrick Stearns about unravelling the meaning behind Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony
Dame Mary Beard | My Music: ‘Ancient music is elusive to historians’
- Friday, July 12, 2024
The nation’s best-known classicist rediscovered classical music in her thirties, when exploring re‑workings of ancient myth
Thea King: a guide to the doyenne of English clarinettists
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Starting out as a pianist, Thea King eventually became a renowned clarinettist – a devoted champion of the instrument –who left a rich legacy on record, writes Mark Pullinger
Leonard Slatkin interview: ‘I’m leaving it to the younger generation to figure out what’s important’
- Friday, July 12, 2024
He’s turning 80 with at least 220 premieres to look back on, but Leonard Slatkin has a good deal more on his agenda than simply reminiscing about past achievements, finds Thomas May
How the LPO is programming its seasons for a modern audience
- Friday, July 12, 2024
The Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic, Elena Dubinets talks to James Jolly about her plans for the future, and how working with UK and US ensembles differ
Robert Saxton: Contemporary Composer
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Richard Whitehouse explores the vast and varied output of a versatile, inventive and ultimately fearless British composer
Classics Reconsidered: Handel’s Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra / Charles Mackerras)
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Richard Wigmore and Lindsay Kemp assess how Charles Mackerras’s 1966 recording of Messiah stands up more than half a century later
Ondine: a profile of the great Finnish record label
- Friday, July 12, 2024
In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of a highly respected Finnish label based in Helsinki
High End Show 2024: clarifications and mystifications in Munich
- Friday, July 12, 2024
This year’s High End Show, held in Munich’s MOC, provided plenty of food for thought, with innovative demonstrations, unexpected arrivals and the odd head-scratching moment, says Andrew Everard
Beethoven: the best recordings from the past two years
- Wednesday, July 3, 2024
All of these Beethoven recordings were chosen as Editor's Choice or Recording of the Month in Gramophone magazine from 2022 to today
Elena Ruehr: Contemporary Composer
- Tuesday, July 2, 2024
A magisterial series of string quartets forms only one part of this US composer’s multifaceted output, finds Guy Rickards
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