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Friday, May 6, 2022

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Oliver Davis tells us about how the natural world influenced the music on his new album

Video of the Day: Requiem Aeternum, from Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Excelsus

Friday, May 6, 2022

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Thomas Carroll plays the opening movement, taken from the newly released EP on Orchid Classics

Jakub Józef Orliński on his Polish song album, 'Farewells'

Podcasts

Friday, May 6, 2022

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After three albums of Baroque music, the Polish countertenor turns to art songs of the past 200 years

Video of the Day: Geminiani's 'The night her silent sable wore'

Thursday, May 5, 2022

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Lucile Richardot sings a work featured on Ophélie Gaillard's new album 'A Night in London'

Revealing new documentary about Ennio Morricone released

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

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New film – ‘Ennio’ – sheds light on the composer, his creative process, and his music

Britten to be honoured with a statue outside his birthplace

Monday, May 2, 2022

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Lowestoft sculpture to depict composer as a boy, looking out towards the sea

Anne Dudley on how a new piano inspired her lockdown album

Podcasts

Friday, April 29, 2022

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'Crossing the Bar', inspired by the poem by Tennyson, emerged from the solitude enforced by the pandemic

Magdalen's May Morning tradition returns

Friday, April 29, 2022

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You can also livestream the Oxford college choir's event - and listen to their new album

Top 10 Baroque composers

Thursday, April 28, 2022

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From around 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period witnessed the creation of some of the greatest musical masterpieces ever composed. Here's our beginner's guide to the greatest composers of the Baroque period

Rediscovering Holst's Sāvitri

Thursday, April 28, 2022

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Britten Sinfonia and Pagrav Dance Company join forces at the Barbican next week to explore this fascinating work afresh

Video of the Day: Natalya Romaniw on Rusalka

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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The soprano discusses the role, ahead of her Edinburgh International Festival performance

Why a label’s commitment to an artist matters

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

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Signing, and nurturing, musicians is as important as ever

The BBC Proms 2022: a return to large scale events and international orchestras

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

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Visiting ensembles to include the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, while anniversary themes include the BBC's centenary

Emmanuelle Haïm on 20 years of Le Concert d’Astrée

Podcasts

Friday, April 22, 2022

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The French conductor and harpsichordist celebrates the anniversary of her ensemble

Video of the Day: Louise Alder singing Strauss's Four Last Songs

Friday, April 22, 2022

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'Beim Schlafengehen' and 'Im Abendrot' - recorded at the Leeds Lieder Festival, with Joseph Middleton

Klaus Mäkelä interview: ‘You don’t have to play for the hall; you just have to seduce the microphones’

Friday, April 22, 2022

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Still in his twenties, the Oslo Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä is remarkably clear-sighted about what he wants to achieve and how – even after lockdown required a different approach to recording his debut album of the Sibelius symphonies, writes Andrew Mellor. Photography by Marco Borggreve

Birgit Nilsson Foundation names its 2022 Stipendium recipient

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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Swedish soprano Cornelia Beskow awarded the annual scholarship

Review: The New Gustav Leonhardt Edition

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood welcomes the opportunity to reassess the pioneering legacy of Gustav Leonhardt

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: May 2022 | The best new classical recordings

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

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Featuring new releases from Mitsuko Uchida, Leif Ove Andsnes, Stephen Hough, Theatre of Voices and more...

Icon: Radu Lupu

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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Geraint Lewis appreciates a fastidious perfectionist whose rare visits to the studio and the concert hall excited his international army of pianophile admirers

Pianist Nicholas Angelich has died aged 51

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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Born December 14, 1970; died April 18, 2022

Introducing the May 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Alisa Weilerstein

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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Alisa Weilerstein: after solo Bach, the acclaimed cellist turns to Beethoven | Summer Festivals: our global guide to the 2022 season | Sibelius’s Violin Concerto: we name the best recordings | Mitsuko Uchida: the pianist’s revelatory Diabelli Variations

An album of unity

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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The New York Youth Symphony's Music Director introduces his ensemble's new recording

‘I know that originally I had some crazy ideas, but I didn’t know they were crazy when I was doing them’ | Classic interview with Sir Harrison Birtwistle