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Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Ella Marchment's staging of the UK premiere of Libby Larsen's opera was 'exhaustingly alive'

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Monday, July 10, 2023

| Gramophone

Why the London Philharmonic Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

Monday, August 21, 2023

| International Piano

Sulamita Aronovsky fled the Soviet Union in 1971 and built a formidable reputation as a teacher in London. Michael Church offers first-hand recollections of this indefatigable and inspirational musician

JS Bach: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| Gramophone

Every recording of JS Bach's music to have won a Gramophone Award since 1977, featuring outstanding accounts of the St Matthew Passion, Goldberg Variations, Cello Suites and more

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

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Opinion

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Life beyond the country house – one summer weekend in the broadsheets crystallises the stark crossroads facing British opera

Michael Boyd | My Music: ‘The ambiguity of music is really extremely valuable’

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

| Gramophone

In 2006 Michael Boyd spoke to Gramophone about how he felt that music could communicate what words could not

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

A meaningfully staged production of Wagner's three act opera at Grange Park, conducted by Stephen Barlow

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’

Decca Icons: Bernard Haitink

Podcasts

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

| Gramophone

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

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

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

Opinion

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| Opera Now

Homophobia surrounded the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. Robert Reid Allan's true-story opera looks at this landmark in queer history and questions how far we have still to go

Puccini: Tosca at Bergen International Festival | Live Review

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

| Opera Now

There was plenty of drama in the concert performance of Tosca by Bergen National Opera and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023: The Shortlist

Friday, September 1, 2023

| Gramophone

We reveal the 66 recordings that have been shortlisted for Gramophone Awards in our free digital magazine, which comes complete with the original reviews of each album

Interstellar at 10

News

Thursday, September 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The tenth anniversary of the Christopher Nolan science fiction film has prompted a world tour of organ recitals.

Donizetti and Friends: Opera Rara at Wigmore Hall | Live Review

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| Gramophone

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Carlo Rizzi present the start to Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project

Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory collaborates on dementia-friendly opera

News

Monday, August 28, 2023

| Opera Now

Edward Lambert's opera The Last Siren premiers at the University of West London, created with the safety of people living with dementia in mind

Must Watch: I Fagiolini sing Benevoli’s Agnus Dei

Friday, October 6, 2023

| Gramophone

Listen to the world premier recording of 17th century motet for 4 choirs

Repertoire guide: Villa-Lobos’s Rudepoêma

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| International Piano

Richard Whitehouse listens to the available recordings of an electrifyingly virtuosic piano work composed for Arthur Rubinstein and recommends some essential listening

Yunchan Lim: the whole world in his hands

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| International Piano

When Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year, he launched a major career with a string of unforgettable performances. Jed Distler reports on a young pianist of exceptional promise

Music For Youth Proms: Inside the Orchestration

Blogs

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

| Gramophone

Composer, radio presenter and Gramophone contributor Jack Pepper is also a proud ambassador for UK national charity Music For Youth. This year’s MFY Proms will premiere songs from his new stage musical, which tells the true story of his piano teacher and has classical music at its heart

Nominees announced for the Ivors Classical Awards 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| Gramophone

Winners will be revealed at the evening awards ceremony on 14 November

Nominees announced for the Ivors Classical Awards 2023

News

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| Opera Now

New operatic works feature in the nominations

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin at Royal Danish Opera | Live Review