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The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Director of Glyndebourne’s new production of The Merry Widow, Cal McCrystal talks about the sometimes not-so-subtle art of making opera funny

Contemporary composer: Benet Casablancas

Features

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

| Gramophone

This Catalan’s many and varied interests are evident throughout both his small- and his large-scale output, says Gavin Dixon

Rostropovich: what made the cellist a 20th-century musical icon?

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

| Gramophone

Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates the artistry of a legendary fellow cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian musician who was an outspoken advocate of human rights and an inspiration for many composers

Ben Maton – The Salisbury Organist: ‘Never lose sight of the organist!’

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Friday, May 10, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The Salisbury Organist explores and films at two more country churches, while celebrating the work of George Herbert and questioning a tendency to forget the organist. Photos by Ben Maton

Contemporary Composer: Arlene Sierra

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

| Gramophone

The substantial and individual work of this UK-based, US-born composer is championed by Richard Whitehouse

Wanda Landowska: an introduction to the life and career of the great harpsichordist

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Friday, June 14, 2024

| Gramophone

Stephen Cera celebrates the remarkable Polish keyboard player who single-handedly revived interest in the harpsichord during the early part of the 20th century

Q&A with Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinetist and discoverer of Loeffler's lost Octet

Features

Friday, June 7, 2024

| Gramophone

‘This recording prompts a revisiting the question of why we know what we know today.’

Video of the Day: Mars Smith performs 'Fossá'

Features

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

| Gramophone

Taken from the duo's upcoming album ‘Faroe Islands: Echoes on the Wind’, out on 26 July with VOCES8 Records

Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien: the best recordings

Features

Friday, June 14, 2024

| Gramophone

Heinrich Schütz’s German Requiem has become one of the most-recorded works of 17th-century German sacred music. Fabrice Fitch investigates its rich discography

In harmony: meeting The Gesualdo Six

Features

Friday, June 14, 2024

| Gramophone

As The Gesualdo Six marks 10 years with a characteristically imaginative album, Mark Seow encounters an ensemble as close-knit socially as it is musically

Opera Now meets Guildhall Opera Makers: Ursa Minor

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Monday, June 17, 2024

| Opera Now

Zygmund De Somogyi & Alexia Peniguel share the background to their new opera, Ursa Minor, and the key to collaboration

Meeting Joana Mallwitz: ‘It’s funny: people don’t know what they’re missing if they’ve not heard Kurt Weill’s symphonies’

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Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

As her recording of Kurt Weill symphonies, her first album for DG, is about to be released, conductor Joana Mallwitz speaks with Richard Bratby

Top 10 symphonies

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

| Gramophone

Tracing the evolution of the symphony from Haydn to Prokofiev through some of the most outstanding classical recordings in history

Composer Missy Mazzoli: ‘Opera is a place where classical music can talk to contemporary society’

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

| Opera Now

The US premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners arrives in Philadelphia in September. She speaks about the opera and modern cult intrigue

Dame Mary Beard | My Music: ‘Ancient music is elusive to historians’

Features

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

The nation’s best-known classicist rediscovered classical music in her thirties, when exploring re‑workings of ancient myth

Video of the Day: Ex Cathedra performs Monteverdi's 'Vespers'

Features

Thursday, July 25, 2024

| Gramophone

Perfoming 'Domine ad adjuvandum', this is an extract from a full concert by Ex Cathedra which is part of this year's LIVE From London Summer festival

Apple’s classical ambitions: how BIS and Platoon are looking to the future of classical music

Features

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

In this month’s column, James Jolly finds out about Apple’s obvious commitment to classical music and, especially, about one of its two labels, the London-based Platoon

Icon: Fritz Kreisler

Features

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Tully Potter celebrates the prototypical Viennese-style violinist who for half a century was adored among peers, critics and audiences, and who made hundreds of recordings

Thea King: a guide to the doyenne of English clarinettists

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Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

Starting out as a pianist, Thea King eventually became a renowned clarinettist – a devoted champion of the instrument –who left a rich legacy on record, writes Mark Pullinger

Contemporary composer: Oliver Leith

Features

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Hattie Butterworth explores this young British composer’s unique influences and how collaborations are crucial to his work

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The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’

Contemporary composer: Benet Casablancas

Rostropovich: what made the cellist a 20th-century musical icon?

Ben Maton – The Salisbury Organist: ‘Never lose sight of the organist!’

Contemporary Composer: Arlene Sierra

Wanda Landowska: an introduction to the life and career of the great harpsichordist

Q&A with Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinetist and discoverer of Loeffler's lost Octet

Video of the Day: Mars Smith performs 'Fossá'

Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien: the best recordings

In harmony: meeting The Gesualdo Six

Opera Now meets Guildhall Opera Makers: Ursa Minor

Meeting Joana Mallwitz: ‘It’s funny: people don’t know what they’re missing if they’ve not heard Kurt Weill’s symphonies’

Top 10 symphonies

Composer Missy Mazzoli: ‘Opera is a place where classical music can talk to contemporary society’

Dame Mary Beard | My Music: ‘Ancient music is elusive to historians’

Video of the Day: Ex Cathedra performs Monteverdi's 'Vespers'

Apple’s classical ambitions: how BIS and Platoon are looking to the future of classical music

Icon: Fritz Kreisler

Thea King: a guide to the doyenne of English clarinettists

Contemporary composer: Oliver Leith

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