The 50 best Mozart recordings
- Tuesday, January 7, 2025
50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews
Features
Top 10 Fauré albums
- Monday, January 6, 2025
Outstanding recordings of Fauré's greatest works, featuring Marianne Crebassa, Quatuor Ebène, Steven Isserlis, Gérard Souzay and more
Editor's Choice: January 2025 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Featuring outstanding new recordings of Mozart's Horn Concertos and Piano Concertos, Bach's organ works, Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' and more
Robert Schumann: the story of his prolific ‘year of song’
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Richard Wigmore explores the music of and biography behind Robert Schumann’s miraculous year of song, 1840
In search of a perfect string quartet sound, with the Carducci Quartet
- Friday, January 3, 2025
How do a string quartet pursue their dream of the ideal ensemble sound? James Jolly caught up with the Carducci Quartet to learn about how they went about it
Pablo Larraín interview: ‘Maria Callas somehow became the sum of the tragedies that she played on stage’
- Friday, January 3, 2025
The director of ‘Maria’ on the recordings of Callas, and on what makes a great film score
Contemporary composer: Rebecca Dale
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Hattie Butterworth explores the output of a young composer whose style has both admirers and detractors
Víkingur Ólafsson: the billion-stream interview
- Friday, January 3, 2025
The pianist on reaching a billion streams, and John Adams’s new concerto
How the music of medieval Poland is being rediscovered
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Edward Breen visits the Swiss countryside to witness a recording session of Polish medieval music from the Krasiński Codex, and hears from those who have helped facilitate the project
A new year, a new set of anniversaries to enjoy
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the January 2025 issue of Gramophone
A letter from New York: Golijov’s Ainadamar at the Met; Nathalie Joachim’s Had To Be
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Golijov’s Ainadamar at the Met; Nathalie Joachim’s Had To Be; William Grant Still’s Symphony No 4, Autochthonous
BMOP/sound: a guide to the award-winning record label
- Friday, January 3, 2025
In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry celebrates a company that promotes neglected orchestral music
The musician and the score: Jérémie Rhorer on Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Conductor Jérémie Rhorer talks to David Patrick Stearns about this challenging masterpiece
Schumann’s Piano Concerto: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Schumann’s sole completed piano concerto remains among his best-loved works. Jed Distler listens to a selection of the prominent pianists who have contributed to the concerto’s substantial discography
Finding the poetry in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, with Sir Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
- Friday, January 3, 2025
Violinist Daniel Pioro and poet Sir Michael Morpurgo tell Mark Seow about their highly personal and deeply felt joint exploration of Vivaldi’s masterpiece
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