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This Week's Essential New Albums

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Featuring outstanding new albums released today by Hilary Hahn, Renaud Capuçon, Simon Rattle, Sandrine Piau, Steven Osborne, Paul Lewis, Johan Dalene, and more

'The beauty of variations lies in the way composers are forced to respond to limitation'

Blogs

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Clare Hammond introduces her new album of piano variations from the 20th and 21st centuries

DG signs harpist Magdalena Hoffmann

Classical Music News

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Principal Harpist of the Bavarian Radio SO will release debut next January

What impact has lockdown had on musical creativity?

Features

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Jack Pepper talks to performers and composers about the ways that they have managed to keep productive in a year of pandemic restrictions

Contemporary Composer: Anna Clyne

Features

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer

Figaro in the City: Mozart as a television series

Blogs

Thursday, March 4, 2021

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A young cast, imaginative filming - how the project came about. Watch the first episode for free

New opera company launched to champion neglected works

Classical Music News

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

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First production will be Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master

Can you be a 1/4 concert pianist?

Blogs

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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Pianist Di Xiao on the pressures of balancing being a musician and parent, and lessons learned in lockdown

Video of the Day: Beethoven's Triple Concerto

Features

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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Faust, Queyras, Melnikov and Heras-Casado play the central movement - taken from their new album

Gramophone's The Listening Room (1.3.21)

Blogs

Monday, March 1, 2021

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Concertos by Beethoven and Piazzolla, piano music by Bach/Saint-Saëns, Liszt and Haydn, short orchestral works by Boieldieu, Auber and Raymond Yiu, and the voices of Jodie Devos, Matthias Goerne, Lise Davidsen and Sandrine Piau

Ksenija Sidorova on Piazzolla and the accordion

Podcasts

Friday, February 26, 2021

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The Latvian-born, Madrid-based accordionist on her centenary tribute

This Week's Essential New Albums

Features

Friday, February 26, 2021

| Gramophone

This week's highlights include Bartók's orchestral works from BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard, an ear-catching Beethoven Triple Concerto and Biber from Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier