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As Wigmore Hall’s 120-year anniversary festival draws to a close, it announces the winners of the largest ever one-off commissioning scheme in the Hall’s history.

Matthew Sharp’s CoronAdventure Year

Blogs

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Gramophone

The British cellist follows up from his blog last year, explaining how his desire to keep classical music alive during the pandemic has taken him to France for some wide-ranging artistic projects

Kate Lindsey on Nero and her new album ‘Tiranno’

Podcasts

Friday, May 28, 2021

| Gramophone

The American mezzo explores the ideas of power and corruption through the eyes of Nero, Agrippina and Poppea

Leif Ove Andsnes interview: ‘It’s amazing what happens in three years of Mozart’s life’

Features

Friday, May 28, 2021

| Gramophone

Despite Covid’s devastating tidal-wave effect on the music world, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has miraculously salvaged his Mozart Momentum project for Sony Classical. He is amazed and grateful, he tells Hugo Shirley in Berlin

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums

Features

Friday, May 28, 2021

| Gramophone

Featuring new albums from Leif Ove Andsnes, Kate Lindsey, Mahan Esfahani, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and Tine Thing Helseth

BBC Proms unveils 2021 season

Classical Music News

Thursday, May 27, 2021

| Gramophone

Audiences will be welcomed back into the Royal Albert Hall

Ravel's Boléro | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history

Top 10 Classical Music Moments in Cinema

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

The greatest scene-stealing scores by Mozart, Wagner, Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Barber, Mahler, Strauss and Mascagni

Jacqueline du Pré and Elgar's Cello Concerto

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Sarah Kirkup speaks to those closest to du Pré to understand what makes her legacy so unique

Top 10 Saint-Saëns albums

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

There's much more to Saint-Saëns than the Carnival of the Animals, as these outstanding recordings amply demonstrate

Bizet's Carmen: A quick guide to essential recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Three highly recommended recordings from the 1950s, 1970s and the 21st century

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: which recording is best?

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

The greatest recordings of this ever-popular guitar concerto

Top 10 Grieg albums

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Gramophone's guide to the essential recordings of Edvard Grieg's music – from Dinu Lipatti to Anne Sofie von Otter

Deutsche Grammophon signs Emily D’Angelo

Classical Music News

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

The Italian-Canadian mezzo's first album is due out in October

Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending: A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Vaughan Williams’s hugely popular and ‘quintessentially English’ romance for violin and orchestra has received many outstanding recordings. Here's a complete guide...

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Peter and the Wolf is a work of considerable charm for people of all ages. Jeremy Nicholas enters the menagerie of recordings on offer

Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the greatest composer of all?

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington and Mitsuko Uchida discuss Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's extraordinary musical legacy

Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Strauss’s tone-poem may have been hijacked by the movies but there’s far more to the score than that famous sunrise, argues Philip Clark, as he seeks the finest recording

Verdi's Aida | A Complete Guide

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Richard Fairman explores Verdi's creative process, Sir Mark Elder reflects on Verdi's masterpiece, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings

Brahms's Symphony No 3: a guide to the best recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Richard Osborne surveys the finest recordings of the Third Symphony

Top 10 Mussorgsky albums

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Here's our guide to 10 of the finest recordings of Mussorgsky's music, from the ever-popular Pictures from an Exhibition to the hidden treasure of the Nursery songs

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Join the DSO-Berlin and Robin Ticciati for some musical mountaineering

Video of the Day: Timelapse 2.0

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall goes lossless

Edinburgh International Festival unveils 2021 plans

Wigmore Hall announces its Lockdown Commissions Scheme winners

Matthew Sharp’s CoronAdventure Year

Kate Lindsey on Nero and her new album ‘Tiranno’

Leif Ove Andsnes interview: ‘It’s amazing what happens in three years of Mozart’s life’

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums

BBC Proms unveils 2021 season

Ravel's Boléro | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Top 10 Classical Music Moments in Cinema

Jacqueline du Pré and Elgar's Cello Concerto

Top 10 Saint-Saëns albums

Bizet's Carmen: A quick guide to essential recordings

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: which recording is best?

Top 10 Grieg albums

Deutsche Grammophon signs Emily D’Angelo

Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending: A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the greatest composer of all?

Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Verdi's Aida | A Complete Guide

Brahms's Symphony No 3: a guide to the best recordings

Top 10 Mussorgsky albums

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