Top 10 Bruckner recordings
- Wednesday, April 21, 2021
A beginner's guide to the music of one of the great symphonic composers
Features
Lise Davidsen interview: ‘I really miss people coughing, I really miss people making that sound!’
- Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Lockdown has been tough on Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen but she was able to perform Wagner to live audiences in Berlin, plus a new recording sees her step outside her comfort zone with relish, finds Neil Fisher
How Vaughan Williams found his voice through folk song
- Monday, April 19, 2021
The chemistry between folk song and art music was a catalyst for the English composer to discover his true voice after years of searching, writes Jeremy Dibble
Gramophone Editor's Choice: May 2021
- Friday, April 16, 2021
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces outstanding new recordings from Phantasm, Sandrine Piau, Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland, Anna Lucia Richter, Peter Jablonski, Ludovic Tézier, and much more...
Blurring the boundary between classical music and jazz
- Friday, April 16, 2021
Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, 'Gershwinicity', is released on the Somm label
Dennis Brain | Obituary (Gramophone, November 1957)
- Friday, April 16, 2021
Since the days when he first became internationally known there was no voice to dispute that Dennis Brain had achieved unequalled pre-eminence in his art...
This Week's Essential New Classical Albums
- Friday, April 16, 2021
Including Vaughan Williams symphonies, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, songs by Wagner, Pfitzner and Strauss, and Freddie De Tommaso's Decca debut
Gesualdo: Moro, e mentre sospiro, by Les Arts Florissants
- Thursday, April 15, 2021
Paul Agnew conducts the acclaimed ensemble in an Editor's Choice-winning album
Creativity and friendship: Sir Tom Stoppard and André Previn
- Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The playwright on collaborating with the composer and conductor on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Lawrence Power's Lockdown Commission #7 - 'Locked in C' by Erkki-Sven Tüür
- Tuesday, April 13, 2021
This striking new work, filmed at Wigmore Hall, is our Video of the Day
Capturing animals in music
- Friday, April 9, 2021
From Saint-Saëns to Copland, pianist An-Ting Chang selects her favourite depictions of birds and beasts in classical music
Video of the Day: Music for Self-Isolation
- Friday, April 9, 2021
Audrey Good plays one of 31 pieces Frank Horvat wrote for self-isolating musicians
This Week's Essential New Albums
- Friday, April 9, 2021
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony from both Teodor Currentzis and Thomas Adès, solo Bach from Augustin Hadelich, Schumann's Lieder by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, Tchaikovsky symphonies from Paavo Järvi and more...
Video of the Day: audio-visual Handel from St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Nina Dunn projections add extra element to Carolyn Sampson singing Messiah
Gramophone's The Listening Room (6.4.21)
- Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Simon Rattle's Rachmaninov, Pergolesi from Ensemble Resonanz, Peter Jablonski plays Stanchinsky, Anna Lucia Richter sings Monteverdi and Lise Davidsen sings Wagner
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