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Monday, January 22, 2024

| Gramophone

Historically informed performance practice launched a new era in recorded repertoire, and the 1997 Gramophone Awards ceremony reached an audience of 2.5 million viewers on ITV

The Green Season at Opera North | Live Review

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

| Opera Now

A roundup of the three operas comprising Opera North's 'Green Season' designed by Leslie Travers

Christoph Waltz | My Music: ‘Music is pretty much as Nietzsche said: it wouldn’t be a life worth living without music’

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

| Gramophone

The actor and director Christoph Waltz on his musical childhood in Vienna, and the links between theatre, film and opera

Handel: Ariodante at Paris Opera | Live Review

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Robert Carsen's interpretation of Handel's opera seria

International Piano: introducing the January/February 2024 issue, featuring Behzod Abduraimov

Friday, December 22, 2023

| International Piano

Behzod Abduraimov: championing his Uzbek roots | Krystian Zimerman: making a statement with Szymanowski

Esa-Pekka Salonen on music in California

Podcasts

Friday, December 22, 2023

| Gramophone

The Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony on the first California Festival, new music and how technology shapes his creative thinking

Judith Weir opera to open 2024 Aldeburgh Festival

Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Opera Now

Celebrating her 70th birthday in 2024, Dame Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert marks the start of the Suffolk new music festival

Bruckner's Symphony No 7, an introduction by Lahav Shani

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Lahav Shani on the lyricism of this work and the human emotion it conveys

Sancte Paule Apostole: Music from The Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Psalms and hymns are performed with as much care as the less familiar works

Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

No one who loves Pärt’s music will want to be without this set

Folks’ Music (Paul Hillier)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

They reflect the meticulously-punctuated theme of that edition of the festival: the idea that new music in the western classical tradition belongs to us all

Shortlists unveiled for RPS awards

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Gramophone

RPS Awards to be held in Manchester

John Eliot Gardiner aiming to return 'later in the year'

Thursday, February 8, 2024

| Opera Now

Conductor of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra extends his time away following assaulting a singer last summer

Championing the music of Dorothy Howell: ‘Her music jumped off the page - it was evocative, bold and imaginative, overflowing with fantastic colours and character’

Blogs

Friday, March 8, 2024

| Gramophone

I hope listeners will love these colourful, characterful, skilful works as much as I do, and that they will also become enthralled with Dorothy Howell’s ferocious talent and fascinating story

Matthew Whiteside on his new guide to self-releasing music for composers