Top 10 Dutilleux recordings

• Thursday, March 26, 2015

Ten of the best ways to start exploring the work of the great French composer

Face-to-face with Pierre Boulez: ‘Acquire and destroy, acquire and destroy, then go further’

• Thursday, March 26, 2015

To celebrate Boulez's 90th birthday, here is Philip Clark's revealing interview with the composer and conductor from 2010

Do female musicians have a future in Iran?

• Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Wunderhorn with Dietrich Henschel

• Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Requiem before Mozart

• Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Editor’s Choice recordings – April 2015

• Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Martin Cullingford's choice of the best discs reviewed in the April 2015 issue

Gallery: Explore Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

• Monday, March 23, 2015

What exactly is a beautiful sound?

• Friday, March 20, 2015

Bob Dylan’s defence of his own singing voice raises questions about the perception of beauty in music that composers and musicians can’t afford to ignore

Sviatoslav Richter centenary tribute

• Friday, March 20, 2015

Jed Distler looks at the career and recordings of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, a performer whose range of repertoire was as large as it was idiosyncratic

How I wrote the music for the reinterment of King Richard III

• Wednesday, March 18, 2015

A posthumous insult to composer Henri Dutilleux

• Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Handel's Giulio Cesare

• Friday, March 13, 2015

Gramophone recommends some of the very best recordings of Handel's opera

Luciano Pavarotti – the birth of a legend

• Friday, March 13, 2015

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Pavarotti’s voice evolved into a thing of great beauty. Philip Kennicott charts Pavarotti’s progress from callow artist to self-sustaining singer

Maria Callas – the Tosca sessions

• Thursday, March 12, 2015

Maria Callas’s famous 1953 Tosca, as Christopher Cook reveals for the first time, was riven by tension and driven by a relentless quest for perfection

Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2 – which recording is best?

• Thursday, March 12, 2015

Premiered in 1908, it was almost 70 years before Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony came in from the cold, finds David Gutman