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Watch: why John Adams objects to being labelled a 'political' composer

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

| Gramophone

In this exclusive extract, Adams also speaks about the worrying years ahead for America

This week: Gramophone celebrates John Adams at 70

Classical Music News

Monday, February 13, 2017

| Gramophone

This week on the Gramophone website we are celebrating the 70th birthday of the great American composer John Adams

John Adams – An American Idol

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Monday, February 13, 2017

| Gramophone

By combining East and West Coast ideals in his music, John Adams continues to create a sense of what it means to be alive today in America, writes Philip Kennicott

John Adams interview: 'I don’t think you can be a great composer unless you have a feeling for harmony'

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Monday, February 13, 2017

| Gramophone

John Adams has managed both to provoke and to console a nation with his trailblazing works. Philip Clark meets the American composer

Watch: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer record Bach

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Monday, February 13, 2017

| Gramophone

The first movement of Bach's Trio Sonata No 6 in G, BWV 530

Nicolai Gedda has died at the age of 91

Classical Music News

Friday, February 10, 2017

| Gramophone

Few tenors married such technical ease to such mastery of varied vocal styles as Nicolai Gedda

This week: Gramophone celebrates Leontyne Price at 90

Classical Music News

Thursday, February 9, 2017

| Gramophone

The great American soprano, who turns 90 this week, profiled in a series of interviews and features

Review: is Arcam's Solo Music the best all-in-one audio system?

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Thursday, February 9, 2017

| Gramophone

The latest generation of Arcam’s all-in-one audio system is its most convincing to date, with a wide range of streaming and playback options

Lang Lang returns to Universal Music Group

Classical Music News

Thursday, February 9, 2017

| Gramophone

Future plans include a new recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations

The art of film music – with John Williams, Alexandre Desplat and Clint Mansell

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

| Gramophone

The great film composers can connect a story with our emotions but to do that, says Charlotte Smith, they embrace the genre as a collaborative art form

Watch: reconstructing Lully's Persée, as seen at Versailles in 1770

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Monday, February 6, 2017

| Gramophone

Behind-the-scenes with Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet

Leontyne Price interview: 'It's terrible but you know I just love the sound of my own voice'

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Monday, February 6, 2017

| Gramophone

A classic meeting with Leontyne Price, from Gramophone in August 1971, by Alan Blyth

Icon: Leontyne Price

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Monday, February 6, 2017

| Gramophone

The American soprano had a gift for fusing voice, words and meaning, and was even able to adapt her vocal colours to her conductor, writes David Patrick Stearns