The Gramophone Guide to … Audio Housekeeping!
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Modern systems require a lot less fiddling and adjustment to optimise performance than their historic counterparts, but there are a still a few tips to try
Features
Classics Reconsidered: Orff’s Carmina Burana (Eugen Jochum)
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan ponder the classic status of Eugen Jochum’s second recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana, set down in 1967
Arcana: a guide to the influential record label
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Tim Parry explores the history and catalogue of a much-admired French label
The immense diversity of the music we cover
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the February issue of Gramophone
Interview: Kent Nagano on recreating the 1868 premiere of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Kent Nagano has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem as it was presented at the work’s Bremen premiere on Good Friday 1868, without the yet-to-be-composed fifth movement, but with musical interpolations and vast choral forces. Andrew Farach-Colton finds out more
Directing the director - filming music
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Ahead of a new memoir, James Jolly speaks to the veteran director Brian Large about how you present concerts and opera for the small screen in a domestic setting
Chausson’s Concert in D: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, January 24, 2025
No other work in the repertoire is quite like Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano and string quartet. Charlotte Gardner delves into a rich recording history dating back almost a century
Rudolf Barshai: a true Renaissance man of music
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Tully Potter remembers Rudolf Barshai, the brilliant Russian viola player, conductor and arranger – a true Renaissance man – who worked closely with and was a friend of Shostakovich
Daisy Knatchbull - My Music: ‘I think, like music, clothes are a real vehicle to understanding oneself’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
The founder of Knatchbull, the first all-female tailoring house to have a shop front on Savile Row, on music in her life
Celebrating Palestrina at 500 with Stile Antico: ‘The great Italian composer who saved church music from cancel culture’
- Thursday, January 23, 2025
To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary
Video: 'This is a portrait of life' – Michael Morpurgo & Daniel Pioro on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
- Friday, January 17, 2025
Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro on their new collaboration, which re-examines the elemental power of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
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A New Ravel Journey Is Underway
- Thursday, January 16, 2025
A new edition, a specialist conductor, a leading orchestra and a renowned production team are bringing us Ravel refreshed, enlivened … and complete
Maria Callas – the operatic icon who transcends time
- Friday, January 10, 2025
Maria Callas embodies the drama, the passion and, ultimately, the tragedy that makes opera what it is
The 50 best Beethoven recordings
- Wednesday, January 8, 2025
50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Takács Quartet and more
The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings
- Tuesday, January 7, 2025
50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available – complete with the original Gramophone reviews – featuring Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Murray Perahia and more
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