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

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

Top 10 viola works

Features

Thursday, January 15, 2015

| Gramophone

The viola as a solo instrument really came into its own in the 20th century. Duncan Druce offers a specialist's guide to the ten best recordings

Hans Zimmer | My Music: ‘Bach is forever my teacher and I listen to him constantly’

Features

Thursday, January 15, 2015

| Gramophone

The musical passions of Hans Zimmer, and how he writes music for the cinema

Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the greatest composer of all?

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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

Joby Talbot talks about his groundbreaking ballet score for The Winter's Tale

Features

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| Gramophone

The composer reveals the challenges of fusing classical and world music in his most recent piece for the Royal Ballet

New Gramophone podcast: Sir James Galway

Classical Music News

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

| Gramophone

The star flautist talks about learning the flute and working with Karajan - download for free

How can anyone not like Haydn?

Features

Thursday, February 19, 2015

| Gramophone

Philip Kennicott on discovering a rare, benighted breed – the Haydn-hater

Gramophone's former Advertisement Director has died

Classical Music News

Monday, February 23, 2015

| Gramophone

Barry Irving dies aged 69

Mark Simpson named as the BBC Philharmonic's new Composer in Association

Classical Music News

Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Gramophone

Simpson, also a clarinettist, is a former BBC Young Musician of the Year

Luciano Pavarotti – the birth of a legend

Features

Friday, March 13, 2015

| Gramophone

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Pavarotti’s voice evolved into a thing of great beauty. Philip Kennicott charts Pavarotti’s progress from callow artist to self-sustaining singer

Linn extends room and speaker optimisation into SPACE

Classical Music News

Monday, March 16, 2015

| Gramophone

New streaming players feature Speaker, Placement and Custom Environment Optimisation

Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 4 – which recording is best?

Features

Thursday, April 2, 2015

| Gramophone

Andrew Achenbach surveys the recordings of Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 4, a work of unusual ferocity

The story behind the triumphant premiere of Handel's Messiah

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Friday, April 10, 2015

| Gramophone

On April 13, 1742, Handel's ever-popular oratorio received its premiere in Dublin

Gramophone's May issue – recording new music – out now!

Classical Music News

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| Gramophone

The May issue explores the way that recording has transformed the means by which new music reaches new listeners and how the latest technology is offering composers more opportunities than ever before.