Critics' Choice: our favourite classical recordings of 2023
- Monday, December 18, 2023
Gramophone’s peerless panel of writers choose their favourite recordings from those reviewed this year
Features
New Music At Christmas: A Playlist
- Friday, December 15, 2023
Jack Pepper curates this guide to the finest contemporary Christmas pieces
Stéphane Degout on recording Brahms's song cycle 'La Belle Maguelone'
- Friday, December 15, 2023
Stéphane Degout reflects on his new live recording of Brahms's 'La Belle Maguelone'
Classics Reconsidered: the Takács Quartet’s late Beethoven String Quartets
- Monday, December 11, 2023
Peter Quantrill and Richard Bratby discuess the status of the Takács Quartet’s late Beethoven, recorded 2003-04
Bridging the gap: a festival done differently
- Friday, December 8, 2023
Launched from his own interests in metal, composer Matthew Whiteside shares his journey to beginning The Night With... Festival in Glasgow
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Penderecki at 90: A Lasting Influence
- Wednesday, December 6, 2023
The 90th anniversary of Penderecki's birth is the perfect chance to sample the diversity of work that sprang from a composer who remained intrigued by the infinite possibilities of sound
Christoph Waltz | My Music: ‘Music is pretty much as Nietzsche said: it wouldn’t be a life worth living without music’
- Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The actor and director Christoph Waltz on his musical childhood in Vienna, and the links between theatre, film and opera
Streaming music on a budget: the Gramophone Guide
- Monday, December 4, 2023
As the choice of ways to stream becomes ever wider, it’s never been more affordable to add network and online music to your system. Here are some bargain ways to do it
The Best Classical Music Albums Of 2023
- Monday, December 4, 2023
All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended. If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further
Editor's Choice: December 2023 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, December 1, 2023
Music by Debussy, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Josquin and more is featured on this month's Editor's Choice recordings
Contemporary composer: Chaya Czernowin
- Friday, November 24, 2023
The vitalist sound worlds of this Israel-born artist inspire younger composers and leave listeners entranced, finds Liam Cagney
Contemporary composer: Dobrinka Tabakova
- Thursday, November 23, 2023
Having fought against pressures inherent in her field, Dobrinka Tabakova has an unwavering reverence for melody and clarity
Contemporary composer: David Del Tredici
- Monday, November 20, 2023
An enthusiastic David Patrick Stearns ‘explains’ this radical US composer, whose life seemed to feature a series of trapdoors
Dichterliebe’s Daughter: Lili Boulanger’s Overlooked Masterpiece 'Clairières dans le Ciel'
- Friday, November 17, 2023
'Extraordinary works of art remind us that that we’re not alone in our wonder and love and suffering'
The art of playing piano duets
- Friday, November 17, 2023
'Listening skills, dialogue and a sense of shared endeavour are essential components, as in any chamber music collaboration'
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