What is a Concerto?
- Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Discover the Concerto – the variously collaborative and competitive musical form that keeps on reinventing itself
Features
Top 10 Arvo Pärt albums
- Tuesday, February 7, 2023
One of the most widely performed and recorded composers of our time has been well-served in the studio
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto: a deep-dive into the best recordings
- Monday, February 6, 2023
Despite its troubled early reception, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has become a favourite among soloists and audiences. Mark Pullinger considers recordings spanning 70 years and selects his overall top choice
The best new classical albums this week (February 3, 2023)
- Friday, February 3, 2023
Clara and Robert Schumann's Piano Concertos, The Well-Tempered Consort III, Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia
Was Rachmaninov the most complete musician of the past 150 years?
- Thursday, February 2, 2023
Sergey Rachmaninov was a remarkable artist who excelled as composer, conductor and pianist
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REMA Awards: Rewarding the Best in Early Music
- Thursday, February 2, 2023
Laureates of the 2022 REMA Awards show that early music in Europe has an ear on the past and an eye on the future
What is a Symphony?
- Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Have you ever wondered what a symphony actually is? Richard Bratby traces the history and development of the musical form over the centuries
Alan Silvestri interview: ‘It’s very intimidating, to sit and try to understand something about great music’
- Monday, January 30, 2023
The composer of scores for films including Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and The Polar Express on his musical life
A major new star-studded studio opera recording? That's worth celebrating
- Monday, January 30, 2023
Gramophone goes behind the scenes as Sir Antonio Pappano and his hand-picked soloists record Turandot
Video of the Day: Barnaby Smith sings ‘Saget, saget mir geschwinde’ from Bach's Easter Oratorio
- Friday, January 27, 2023
The countertenor performs the aria of Mary Magdalene
The best new classical albums this week (January 27, 2023)
- Friday, January 27, 2023
Schubert's Schwanengesang, JS Bach's clavichord music, Haydn's Symphonies Nos 31, 48 and 59
Introducing the February 2023 issue of Gramophone, featuring a new studio recording of Puccini’s Turandot
- Friday, January 27, 2023
Turandot: behind the scenes of a star-studded new recording of Puccini’s final opera
Editor's Choice: February 2023 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, January 27, 2023
Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Anne Queffélec's Beethoven sonatas, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say play Bartók, Brahms and Janáček
Which ‘plug and play’ turntable should you buy?
- Thursday, January 26, 2023
There are plenty of turntables – at all levels of the market – designed to make playing LPs almost as simple as loading up a CD
Otto Klemperer: 'I always say that it’s the orchestra that makes the music, not the conductor' | Classic interview
- Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Otto Klemperer spoke to Alan Blyth for the May 1970 issue...
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