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Gramophone Collection: the Top Choice classical recordings

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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In every issue of Gramophone you will find Gramophone Collection – a long-running series in which we ask one of our writers to survey the available recordings of a particular work and choose their favourite. Here are the recent Top Choice albums in the series – a great way to discover outstanding classical recordings

Harbin launches 5th Schoenfeld International String Competition

The best new classical albums: Editor's Choice, March 2020

Features

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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Featuring new albums from Benjamin Grosvenor, Joyce DiDonato, Daniel Lozakovich, Isabelle Faust, Daniel Müller-Schott and many more

Video of the day: Joyce DiDonato and Kate Lindsey on Handel's Agrippina

Features

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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Joyce DiDonato and Kate Lindsey spare five precious minutes during the intermission of Handel's Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York to talk about the opera

Introducing the March 2020 issue of Gramophone – featuring Teodor Currentzis, Michael Tilson Thomas and Handel’s Dixit Dominus

Classical Music News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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The March 2020 issue Gramophone features revealing interviews with conductors Teodor Currentzis and Michael Tilson Thomas and, of course, the world's best classical music reviews

'Since the sad demise of most of our record shops, the way we both programme and market recordings has changed'

Blogs

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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The concept album has come of age, says soprano Carolyn Sampson

Video of the day: Maurizio Pollini plays Beethoven

Features

Monday, February 24, 2020

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Piano Sonata No 30 in E major, Op. 109: 1. Vivace ma non troppo

Paavo Järvi on working with his NHK Symphony Orchestra

Podcasts

Friday, February 21, 2020

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The Estonian conductor talks about his three orchestras, and particularly his Tokyo-based NHK Symphony Orchestra as they arrive in Europe as part of a concert tour that takes in nine cities

Why we are bringing Strauss's Elektra out of the opera house

Blogs

Friday, February 21, 2020

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Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits, is bringing Richard Strauss's Elektra to concert halls in Bournemouth and Birmingham

The Listening Room: Episode 91 (17.2.20)

Blogs

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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Daniel Hope and friends play Chausson; Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion, Konstantin Lifschitz plays Beethoven and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann, plus taster tracks from Mutter, Ma and Barenboim, Eric Lu and Aleksandra Kurzak