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The best recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola

Monday, January 25, 2016

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The viola has equal billing with the violin in Mozart’s celebrated work, but the players don’t always reflect this. Richard Wigmore surveys the available recordings for those which address the balance most effectively

Alexander Armstrong | My Music: ‘I’m devoted to Choral Evensong. I find the liturgy so beautiful... it’s just such a part of me, I adore it’

Features

Friday, January 22, 2016

| Gramophone

From St Mary’s Cathedral to Trinity College, Cambridge, the comedian, actor – and baritone – on the long path to recording his debut album

BBC Radio 3 announces Shakespeare's 400th anniversary plans

Classical Music News

Thursday, January 21, 2016

| Gramophone

Pop-up studio to broadcast from Stratford-upon-Avon over anniversary weekend

St John’s Cambridge launches new label

Classical Music News

Thursday, January 21, 2016

| Gramophone

The label - produced with Signum Classics - will begin with a disc of music by Jonathan Harvey

David Bowie’s Blackstar

Blogs

Thursday, January 21, 2016

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Top 10 Purcell recordings

Features

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| Gramophone

The inventiveness, skill and emotional power of so much of Purcell's music always rewards re-interpretation and listening. Here's the Gramophone guide to 10 of the best Purcell recordings

Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to Bach's B minor Mass

Features

Monday, January 18, 2016

| Gramophone

Thirty years after his first recording, Gardiner returns to this towering summit of Western music with the same forces as before. By Lindsay Kemp

The best Schumann recordings of the last five years

Features

Friday, January 15, 2016

| Gramophone

Each of the recordings in this list was a Gramophone Editor's Choice – they are all ideal points of departure for an exploration of Schumann's sound world

First BBC Proms 2016 concerts revealed as the Ten Pieces project continues

Classical Music News

Friday, January 15, 2016

| Gramophone

Secondary school students will be given the opportunity to perform at the Proms on July 23 and 24

Classical music mashup quiz

Features

Friday, January 15, 2016

| Gramophone

How many of the 57 classical works can you identify in this hugely creative video?

Exclusive video: Grigory Sokolov plays an extract from Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata

Classical Music News

Friday, January 15, 2016

| Gramophone

Watch Grigory Sokolov play an extract from the Allegro of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, part of his new album – released today

Wigmore Hall to begin free live streaming on January 28

Classical Music News

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

| Gramophone

London's renowned chamber music venue begins its programme of live streaming with a concert featuring the Armida Quartet

Inside Schumann's Dichterliebe

Features

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

| Gramophone

James Jolly meets tenor James Gilchrist in order to get under the skin of the 16 songs comprising ‘A Poet’s Love’

The complicated musical genius of Robert Schumann, by Steven Isserlis

Features

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Gramophone

Schumann remains one of the most misunderstood of all composers. Cellist and Schumann devotee Steven Isserlis peers behind the myths

A journey inside Schumann's concertos and trios with Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras

Features

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Gramophone

Faust, Melnikov and Queyras are seeking to change perceptions of Schumann by recording the trios and concertos on period instruments, finds Harriet Smith

Schumann's symphonies – building a fantasy world

Features

Friday, January 8, 2016

| Gramophone

Philip Clark explores why Simon Rattle, Heinz Holliger, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Robin Ticciati are immersing themselves in Schumann's highly individual sound world