Features
Don't knock the Proms: events such as this keep alive the idea that music is for all
- Friday, July 19, 2019
Video of the day: Mahan Esfahani on Bach's Toccatas
- Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Esfahani discusses his latest recording for Hyperion: 'I think musicians who avoid Bach basically lack humility'
The best new classical albums: August 2019
- Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Editor Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews
Mr Classical Music Festivals
- Monday, July 15, 2019
Martin T:son Engstroem talks to James Jolly about what makes a good music festival and the addition of two more summer festivals to his portfolio
Video of the day: The LSO and Sir Simon Rattle play Ravel in Trafalgar Square
- Friday, July 5, 2019
Rattle leads the London Symphony Orchestra in Ravel's La valse
The beauty and truth of Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared
- Thursday, July 4, 2019
Nicky Spence explores Janáček's most personal, obsessive and confessional score
Working with Pavarotti: demands, differences & riveting results
- Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Recording Pavarotti in Otello meant balancing his very specific views with Sir Georg Solti’s often completely opposing ones, recalls producer Michael Haas – but the results were well worth it
Video of the day: Voces8 perform Paul Smith's beautiful Nunc Dimittis
- Friday, June 28, 2019
Voces8 were recorded in Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace in Guebwiller, France
Matthew Barley: the cellist with the Midas touch
- Thursday, June 27, 2019
Melting barriers between classical, jazz and Indian music, Matthew Barley brings a uniquely free spirit to all he does – and his Tavener recording is no exception, writes Charlotte Gardner
Video of the day: Mao Fujita dazzles at the Tchaikovsky Competition
- Monday, June 24, 2019
This year's Tchaikovsky Competition is in full flight, and Mao Fujita has made it to the piano finals
François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles: making waves in French music
- Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Following scintillating recordings of La mer and Daphnis et Chloé with his experimental Les Siècles, late last year conductor François-Xavier Roth released an all-Debussy disc featuring seminal works which, as he tells Mark Pullinger, marked a new era in music

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