Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2 both acknowledged and broke away from tradition. Richard Whitehouse surveys its recorded history
Features
Contemporary composer: Karin Rehnqvist
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Guy Rickards focuses on a Swede with a truly original voice, combining modernism with the ages-old tradition of kulning
A close look at the score of Bach’s Magnificat, with conductor Justin Doyle
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Conductor Justin Doyle tells Lindsay Kemp about recording the original version in E flat
Celebrating David Oistrakh with Bruno Monsaingeon
- Friday, November 1, 2024
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
Pierre Boulez thought that the string quartet was dead. I beg to differ...
- Friday, November 1, 2024
It’s heartening to see – some 250 years after Haydn’s first forays – so many composers still writing for string quartet
Classics Reconsidered: Nigel Kennedy’s first recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Andrew Farach-Colton and Andrew Achenbach reassess Nigel Kennedy’s first recording – made 40 years ago – of Elgar’s Violin Concerto
Nelson Freire: a guide to the career and recordings of the iconic pianist
- Friday, November 1, 2024
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
A month of music with roots in recording
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the November issue of Gramophone
Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (November 2024)
- Friday, November 1, 2024
Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts
Frank Dupree interview: ‘I could play Kapustin for the next 10 years, but I also love playing a Brahms or a Beethoven or a Tchaikovsky in between’
- Friday, November 1, 2024
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
Zeinab Badawi | My Music: ‘My love of opera started about 35 years ago and it was a case of love at first sight’
- Friday, November 1, 2024
The journalist, author and President of SOAS University of London Zeinab Badawi on the music in her life
Interview: Andrew Manze on winning Gramophone's 2024 Orchestral Award with the RLPO
- Thursday, October 31, 2024
Conductor Andrew Manze reflects on his Award-winning recording of Vaughan Williams's orchestral works
Interview: Stratton Bull on winning Gramophone's 2024 Early Music Award
- Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stratton Bull discusses his Award-winning account of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart
Beginnings and Endings: A personal view of Mahler through his First and Ninth Symphonies
- Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Conductor David Bernard describes how exploring Mahler’s First and Ninth Symphonies together unlocks insights about Mahler and his Music
Video: Paul McCreesh reflects on winning Gramophone's 2024 Choral Award with Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius on period instruments won this year's Choral category
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