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

Friday, May 28, 2021

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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

Sir Nicholas Kenyon | My Music: ‘We desperately need performance to bring music to life, and the last year has proved that so vividly’

Features

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

| Gramophone

Sir Nicholas Kenyon The author, broadcaster and Barbican Centre Managing Director on the impact of music on societies past and present

Byrd 1588: A compelling insight into an extraordinary moment in English history

Features

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

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For Alamire’s new album, the ensemble’s Artistic Director David Skinner has returned a major Byrd collection to its roots. Martin Cullingford listens in

John Wilson on his new Henri Dutilleux album

Podcasts

Friday, June 11, 2021

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The British conductor has recorded the ballet 'Le Loup' and three works for winds orchestrated by Kenneth Hesketh

Vivaldi and Social Enterprise

Blogs

Friday, June 18, 2021

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The Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields on how the church's charitable and musical lives relate

Video: Chelsea Guo plays - and sings - Chopin

Features

Monday, June 21, 2021

| Gramophone

The pianist and soprano's debut includes a vocal setting of the Op 10 No 3 Etude

This Week’s Essential New Albums

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Friday, June 25, 2021

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Randall Goosby’s Decca debut, Olga Pashchenko’s Mozart, Shostakovich from Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, and more

Watch: Tom Borrow plays Chopin's Polonaise-fantaisie

Features

Friday, June 25, 2021

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The newly-named BBC New Generation Artist recorded the work at this year's Rubinstein Virtual Piano Festival

Watch: Benjamin Baker plays Bach at East Neuk

Features

Monday, July 5, 2021

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Solo Sonata No 3 video is part of a series of free festival films

Laurence Equilbey on Louise Farrenc the symphonist

Blogs

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

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The conductor pays tribute to Louise Farrenc, a composer whose works deserve a place in symphonic programmes and in the discography

The Best Classical Albums of 2021

Features

Friday, December 31, 2021

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Featuring Hilary Hahn, Leif Ove Andsnes, Nathalie Stutzmann, Stephen Hough and many more – all of these outstanding classical albums were selected as Editor's Choice by Gramophone in 2021

The British opera director Sir Graham Vick has died

Classical Music News

Sunday, July 18, 2021

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Born December 30, 1953; died July 17, 2021

Watch: Ruby Hughes introduces Songs for New Life and Love

Classical Music News

Friday, August 20, 2021

| Gramophone

Based around a song cycle by Helen Grime, the album explores love and loss, pregnancy and parenthood

This Week's Essential New Albums

Features

Friday, September 10, 2021

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Featuring Igor Levit's 'On DSCH', Janine Jansen's '12 Stradivari', Paul Lewis's Haydn piano sonatas and Renaud Capuçon's 'Tabula Rasa'

Charles Owen on the Swiss book of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage

Podcasts

Friday, September 17, 2021

| Gramophone

The British pianist talks about Liszt and how the composer became a companion during lockdown

Music and dementia

Blogs

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

| Gramophone

Naomi Atherton, Principal Horn of the Manchester Camerata, on how music gives people living with dementia a voice and a sense of community in the moment