Features
Best new classical albums – Awards issue 2016
- Friday, September 16, 2016
The finest recordings reviewed in the Awards issue of Gramophone magazine, introduced by Editor Martin Cullingford
Video of the day: Itzhak Perlman and Martha Argerich record Bach, Schumann and Brahms
- Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Together at last – Argerich and Perlman record their first studio album together
Video of the day: Reich sparks a riot at Carnegie Hall
- Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Steve Reich and Michael Tilson Thomas recall the dramatic performance of Reich's Four Organ's at Carnegie Hall
Video of the day: Shakespeare Songs with Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano
- Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Bostridge and Pappano perform Quilter's 'Come Away Death'
Ten great piano concertos explored by 10 great pianists
- Monday, September 5, 2016
Michael McManus invites 10 of today’s leading pianists to discuss 10 great examples of the Piano Concerto
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, by Paul Lewis
- Monday, September 5, 2016
For the British pianist, the ‘Emperor’ is a robust concerto which feels fresh every time
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, by Nicholas Angelich
- Monday, September 5, 2016
The American-born, Paris-trained pianist on Brahms’s ‘symphony with piano obbligato’
Grieg Piano Concerto, by Leif Ove Andsnes
- Monday, September 5, 2016
The Norwegian pianist grew up with Grieg’s famous concerto, yet still finds it a force of nature
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, by Angela Hewitt
- Monday, September 5, 2016
For Hewitt, the transcendental power of Mozart’s last piano concerto makes it emotional to play
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Monday, September 5, 2016
Tricky fingerings, hand-crossing…Prokofiev pushes his pianist to the limits, says Bavouzet
Ravel Piano Concerto in G, by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Monday, September 5, 2016
The Frenchman admires this showpiece – but being French isn’t a prerequisite for playing Ravel
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2, by Stephen Hough
- Monday, September 5, 2016
Rachmaninov is unsurpassed when it comes to producing colour from harmony, says Hough
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