The value in variety of both artists and styles to classical music
- Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the March 2024 issue of Gramophone
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the March 2024 issue of Gramophone
This month: Janáček's Katya Kabanova from the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, Handel's Theodora by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Marc-André Hamelin plays his own piano music
Ahead of a special livestreaming partnership with Gramophone, Jack Pepper introduces one of Hungary’s rising star orchestras…
To mark the composer’s 200th anniversary we talked to ten of today’s leading conductors of his music about one symphony each. The result is a fascinating insight into of one of the most significant of all symphonic cycles
Marcus Bosch on two works that reveal Bruckner’s emerging symphonic voice – inspired by Mendelssohn
Gerd Schaller on the immediacy and philosophical nature of the composer’s first numbered symphony
Riccardo Muti finds that this, like all of Bruckner’s symphonies, carries a message for the soul
Markus Poschner seeks the truth behind this early symphony
François-Xavier Roth on a work whose different – and very unique – versions inform one another
Christian Thielemann discusses this accessible work which exudes a positive energy
Simone Young on why this emotionally charged symphony is her favourite by this composer
Lahav Shani on the lyricism of this work and the human emotion it conveys
Herbert Blomstedt considers a work that’s nothing short of miraculous
Andris Nelsons on a symphony he places alongside the mighty ninths of Beethoven and Mahler
János Balázs talks to Jack Pepper about exploring Rachmaninov, Hungarian gypsy music and a new piano concerto by Péter Eötvös that pays tribute to his pianist role model, György Cziffra
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