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Friday, January 24, 2020

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An exclusive insight into the recording sessions for Kate Lindsey's new album

Mieczysław Weinberg: a complete guide to the composer's life and music

Thursday, January 23, 2020

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To mark Mieczysław Weinberg’s centenary, David Fanning explores the ever-growing catalogue of the Russian composer’s extraordinary and underappreciated music

The Listening Room: Episode 89 (21.1.20)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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James Jolly's fortnightly playlist includes a taster of Víkingur Ólafsson's much-anticipated new album 'Debussy - Rameau', Ruby Hughes singing Rhian Samuel's Clytemnestra, Jean-Philippe Collard in Granados's Goyescas and Sheku Kanneh-Mason's Elgar Cello Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle

Vladimir Ashkenazy announces retirement

Monday, January 20, 2020

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Pianist and conductor to step down from public performance with immediate effect

Ruby Hughes on Rhian Samuel’s Clytemnestra

Podcasts

Friday, January 17, 2020

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The English soprano on a work of which she’s become a modern champion

How the Scottish landscape inspired 'Airs', a new fusion of music and art

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Composer Mhairi Hall introduces her special collaboration with landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes

Boris Giltburg: setting out to record – and film – all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Boris Giltburg has set himself the challenge of undertaking filmed performances of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas this year. Here he introduces the project and gets things underway with the First Sonata

Barry Tuckwell, revered horn virtuoso, has died

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Born March 5, 1931; died January 16, 2020

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes UK Album Chart history by entering the Top 10

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Kanneh-Mason becomes the first cellist in the history of the UK Official Album Chart to break into the Top 10 and the first British classical instrumentalist in 30 years

Alan Gilbert named Royal Swedish Opera Music Director

Thursday, January 16, 2020

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American conductor makes a return to Stockholm

Andris Nelsons interview: ‘It’s like learning to talk, except with our hands … only gradually can we conductors consciously express what we want to say’

Thursday, January 16, 2020

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Whether he’s conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Bruckner or the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven, Andris Nelsons is mindful of the profound, indefinable connection between a conductor and his musicians, he tells Peter Quantrill

Hänssler Classic signs 19-year-old pianist Tom Borrow

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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Israeli pianist begins partnership with album of Franck, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Liszt

The humanity behind the music-making

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

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Looking ahead to Beethoven year, and remembering Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury

Video of the day: Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet live at Wigmore Hall

Monday, January 13, 2020

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Brahms's Piano Quintet, performed by Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet

Sheku Kanneh-Mason interview: ‘Just playing beautifully is kind of boring. I want to play with as much character as possible’

Monday, January 13, 2020

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At just 20 years old Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes inspiration from the great cellists of the distant past – and his models for Elgar’s Cello Concerto are no exception, finds Richard Bratby

Louise Alder: The Russian Connection

Podcasts

Friday, January 10, 2020

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The English soprano on the fascinating story behind her new Chandos album

Recording the choral works of William Mathias

Friday, January 10, 2020

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Graham Walker, Director of St John's Voice, St John's College, Cambridge, on the beauty of William Mathias's choral music

Vladimir Horowitz: Our Contemporary

Friday, January 10, 2020

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Michelle Assay celebrates the life and career of the controversial American pianist 30 years after his death – and makes a case for his relevance today

Beethoven the Modern

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these concerts – and of the great composer himself – in programming his concert at London’s Southbank Centre on February 21 with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

Watch: The Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Part 2

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

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Rob Cowan continues his series for Gramophone exploring some of the greatest pianists of the last century

The Listening Room: Episode 88 (7.1.19)

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

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Stephen Hough on Brahms's late piano music

Podcasts

Friday, January 3, 2020

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Stephen Hough discusses his new album of piano works by Brahms with James Jolly

Introducing Gramophone’s January 2020 issue

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Beethoven’s music and the history of recording | The mighty Hammerklavier: the best version to own | Simon Callow: what Beethoven means to me | Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Editor's Choice – the best new classical albums: January 2020

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Including new albums by Stephen Hough, Vasily Petrenko, Fretwork and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra

The tenor Peter Schreier has died