What exactly is a beautiful sound?

• Friday, March 20, 2015

Bob Dylan’s defence of his own singing voice raises questions about the perception of beauty in music that composers and musicians can’t afford to ignore

Sviatoslav Richter centenary tribute

• Friday, March 20, 2015

Jed Distler looks at the career and recordings of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, a performer whose range of repertoire was as large as it was idiosyncratic

How I wrote the music for the reinterment of King Richard III

• Wednesday, March 18, 2015

A posthumous insult to composer Henri Dutilleux

• Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Handel's Giulio Cesare

• Friday, March 13, 2015

Gramophone recommends some of the very best recordings of Handel's opera

Luciano Pavarotti – the birth of a legend

• Friday, March 13, 2015

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Pavarotti’s voice evolved into a thing of great beauty. Philip Kennicott charts Pavarotti’s progress from callow artist to self-sustaining singer

Maria Callas – the Tosca sessions

• Thursday, March 12, 2015

Maria Callas’s famous 1953 Tosca, as Christopher Cook reveals for the first time, was riven by tension and driven by a relentless quest for perfection

Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2 – which recording is best?

• Thursday, March 12, 2015

Premiered in 1908, it was almost 70 years before Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony came in from the cold, finds David Gutman

Contemporary composer – Gerald Barry

• Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The angular, brazen and fiercely individual music of this true Irishman undergoes colourful analysis by Paul Griffiths

Sir Charles Groves - 100 years on

• Tuesday, March 10, 2015

To mark the centenary of his birth today, we revisit an interview from exactly 25 years ago when Anne Inglis met up with Sir Charles to talk over some of his new releases (reprinted from Gramophone, March 1990).

Vote for the Gramophone Hall of Fame

• Friday, March 6, 2015

Who should join the illustrious honourees in Gramophone's Hall of Fame?

Women with the WOW factor

• Friday, March 6, 2015

Top 10 contemporary works by women composers

• Friday, March 6, 2015

A selection of recordings by just a few of the most stimulating of today's composers

Saint-Saëns - Chamber Works

• Friday, March 6, 2015

Recommended recordings of Saint-Saëns's chamber works

Composer Mark Simpson on his creative process and his new role with the BBC Philharmonic

• Thursday, March 5, 2015