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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
Richard Bratby explores a range of web-based operas and concerts
Cristian Măcelaru tells Christian Hoskins about the special qualities of this final symphony
The conductor on his latest Haydn ‘London’ symphonies recording
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
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
Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan ponder the classic status of Eugen Jochum’s second recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana, set down in 1967
Tim Parry explores the history and catalogue of a much-admired French label
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the February issue of Gramophone
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
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
No other work in the repertoire is quite like Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano and string quartet. Charlotte Gardner delves into a rich recording history dating back almost a century
Tully Potter remembers Rudolf Barshai, the brilliant Russian viola player, conductor and arranger – a true Renaissance man – who worked closely with and was a friend of Shostakovich
The founder of Knatchbull, the first all-female tailoring house to have a shop front on Savile Row, on music in her life
To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary
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