The importance of open-minded artists
- Thursday, January 30, 2020
Today's most fascinating musicians are those forging their own paths
Features
The Musician and the Score: Vasily Petrenko on Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote
- Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Conductor Vasily Petrenko shares his feelings about the piece with Andrew Farach-Colton
The best new classical albums: Editor's Choice, February 2020
- Friday, January 24, 2020
Including outstanding new releases from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Alexandre Tharaud
Video of the day: 'delicious intimacy' as Kate Lindsey records her new album with Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen
- Friday, January 24, 2020
An exclusive insight into the recording sessions for Kate Lindsey's new album
Mieczysław Weinberg: a complete guide to the composer's life and music
- Thursday, January 23, 2020
To mark Mieczysław Weinberg’s centenary, David Fanning explores the ever-growing catalogue of the Russian composer’s extraordinary and underappreciated music
The Listening Room: Episode 89 (21.1.20)
- Tuesday, January 21, 2020
James Jolly's fortnightly playlist includes a taster of Víkingur Ólafsson's much-anticipated new album 'Debussy - Rameau', Ruby Hughes singing Rhian Samuel's Clytemnestra, Jean-Philippe Collard in Granados's Goyescas and Sheku Kanneh-Mason's Elgar Cello Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle
How the Scottish landscape inspired 'Airs', a new fusion of music and art
- Friday, January 17, 2020
Composer Mhairi Hall introduces her special collaboration with landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes
Boris Giltburg: setting out to record – and film – all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas
- Friday, January 17, 2020
Boris Giltburg has set himself the challenge of undertaking filmed performances of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas this year. Here he introduces the project and gets things underway with the First Sonata
Andris Nelsons interview: ‘It’s like learning to talk, except with our hands … only gradually can we conductors consciously express what we want to say’
- Thursday, January 16, 2020
Whether he’s conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Bruckner or the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven, Andris Nelsons is mindful of the profound, indefinable connection between a conductor and his musicians, he tells Peter Quantrill
The humanity behind the music-making
- Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Looking ahead to Beethoven year, and remembering Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury
Sheku Kanneh-Mason interview: ‘Just playing beautifully is kind of boring. I want to play with as much character as possible’
- Monday, January 13, 2020
At just 20 years old Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes inspiration from the great cellists of the distant past – and his models for Elgar’s Cello Concerto are no exception, finds Richard Bratby
Video of the day: Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet live at Wigmore Hall
- Monday, January 13, 2020
Brahms's Piano Quintet, performed by Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet
Recording the choral works of William Mathias
- Friday, January 10, 2020
Graham Walker, Director of St John's Voice, St John's College, Cambridge, on the beauty of William Mathias's choral music
Vladimir Horowitz: Our Contemporary
- Friday, January 10, 2020
Michelle Assay celebrates the life and career of the controversial American pianist 30 years after his death – and makes a case for his relevance today
Beethoven the Modern
- Thursday, January 9, 2020
Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these concerts – and of the great composer himself – in programming his concert at London’s Southbank Centre...
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