Music and Remembrance - 80 years on from D-Day
- Sunday, November 10, 2024
As 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Jack Pepper tells the story of three composers involved in that momentous year and how it shaped their music
As 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Jack Pepper tells the story of three composers involved in that momentous year and how it shaped their music
Bruce Liu tells Michelle Assay why he was drawn to the intimacy of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons
For her latest Decca album, ‘The Frans Brüggen Project’, Lucie Horsch was granted special access to the early music pioneer’s extraordinary collection of historical recorders
This month we highlight outstanding recordings from François-Xavier Poizat, Gautier Capuçon, Hanni Liang, The Tallis Scholars and more
Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2 both acknowledged and broke away from tradition. Richard Whitehouse surveys its recorded history
Guy Rickards focuses on a Swede with a truly original voice, combining modernism with the ages-old tradition of kulning
Conductor Justin Doyle tells Lindsay Kemp about recording the original version in E flat
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary violinist David Oistrakh, Bruno Monsaingeon has curated a commemorative set. James Jolly went to visit him
It’s heartening to see – some 250 years after Haydn’s first forays – so many composers still writing for string quartet
Andrew Farach-Colton and Andrew Achenbach reassess Nigel Kennedy’s first recording – made 40 years ago – of Elgar’s Violin Concerto
Jed Distler remembers the Brazilian musician hailed as a pianists’ pianist, whose abilities bordered on the supernatural and who left a treasure-laden legacy on record
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the November issue of Gramophone
Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts
Renaissance man Frank Dupree talks to Jeremy Nicholas with boundless enthusiasm about the appeal of Kapustin’s jazz-inspired music and about his own multifaceted career
The journalist, author and President of SOAS University of London Zeinab Badawi on the music in her life
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