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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

| Gramophone

Why the Danish National Symphony Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

Arts Council grants security for ENO until 2026

News

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

| Opera Now

A grant of £24 million will provide interim support before the company's move out of the capital

Soprano Ava Dodd wins Verbier Academy's highest honour

News

Monday, July 31, 2023

| Opera Now

The 25-year-old receives the Prix Yves Paternot for the musician of the Academy demonstrating the most promise

Hyperion Records: we explore the Award-winning label

Podcasts

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Gramophone

To mark the label's arrival on streaming services, we share ten of our favourite Hyperion albums

Yamaha Artist Insights Podcast returns with Series 2

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Gramophone

More unique insights into the musical journeys of six leading Yamaha artists

Hyperion Records now available on streaming services

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Gramophone

All Hyperion's Gramophone Award-winning albums among first 200 releases available from today

Vaughan Williams: Pilgrims Progress at the Three Choirs Festival | Live Review

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Opera Now

Vaughan Williams's theatre work really needs a theatre, but the British Youth Opera threw themselves into the drama

Hyperion Records: 20 unmissable recordings

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Gramophone

20 outstanding albums from Hyperion Records, all of them Gramophone Award-winners, and all available to stream

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| International Piano

Charles Timbrell explores the history on record of one of Chopin’s late masterpieces and recommends some listening

When classical meets metal

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| Opera Now

Yamaha London’s fusion event brought together rock, metal, opera and everything in between. By Lauren McQuistin. Photography by Miriam Demir/Yamaha London

'Knowing more about the artist only enhances the listener's experience' - Elgan Llŷr Thomas

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| Opera Now

A new album from tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas celebrates homosexuality through art song

Sir John Eliot Gardiner: breaking out of the Baroque

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| Gramophone

Edward Breen welcomes the reissue of John Eliot Gardiner’s pioneering Erato legacy

Opera and the refugee crisis – a letter from Geneva

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| Opera Now

German composer Christian Jost hopes the world premiere of Voyage vers l’Espoir in Geneva can expose the ongoing reality of the migrant crisis

Decca Icons: Bernard Haitink

Podcasts

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

| Gramophone

We focus on the great Dutch conductor's recorded legacy for Philips and Decca

The art of the song recital

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

| Gramophone

David Patrick Stearns talks to leading pianists, singers and composers shaping the art song tradition for today

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

| Gramophone

Why The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

Dove: Itch at Opera Holland Park | Live Review

Monday, July 24, 2023

| Opera Now

In a warm operatic atmosphere, the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's new opera lacked much-needed excitement

Venables: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at the Manchester International Festival | Live Review

Monday, July 24, 2023

| Opera Now

The latest stage work by Philip Venables sets Larry Mitchell's 1977 novel and is a whimsical reflection on the struggles of gay people

Video of the Day: electrifying Haydn from Rachel Podger and Tafelmusik

Monday, July 24, 2023

| Gramophone

Haydn's Symphony No 49, ‘La Passione’ - Allegro di molto

Video of the Day: the exquisite melancholy of Wilbye’s ‘Draw on Sweet Night’ performed by VOCES8

Saturday, July 22, 2023

| Gramophone

VOCES8 – filmed in the Nikolai Kirche in Plön (Schleswig-Holstein) – perform Wilbye’s atmospheric ‘Draw on Sweet Night’

Is it time to put the brakes on our intellectual superiority when talking about opera? | Andrew Mellor

Opinion

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Opera Now

Plínio Fernandes plays Bach in a beautiful new video

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Gramophone

The Brazilian guitarist also reveals details of his new Decca Gold album

Rob Cowan on listening to historic recordings

Podcasts

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Gramophone

Gramophone's expert on archive albums on what we learn from master musicians of the past

How composers find musical inspiration in real life stories

Blogs

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Gramophone

Penelope Thwaites reflects on how the stories of real people inspire and motivate her compositional process

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review