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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

| Opera Now

Mapping the friendship between Imogen Holst and Benjamin Britten, Mark Ravenhill's play is set as Britten completes his opera Gloriana

Recipients of RCO Medal announced

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Royal College of Organists announces recipients of its highest award

Bruckner's Symphony No 6, an introduction by Simone Young

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Simone Young on why this emotionally charged symphony is her favourite by this composer

Bruckner's Symphony No 2, an introduction by Riccardo Muti

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Riccardo Muti finds that this, like all of Bruckner’s symphonies, carries a message for the soul

Bruckner's Symphony No 4, an introduction by François-Xavier Roth

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

François-Xavier Roth on a work whose different – and very unique – versions inform one another

JS Bach: Organ Transcriptions (Wolfgang Rübsam)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Every note, every rhythmic delay, every extended up-beat, every spread chord is planned with astonishing detail

Handel's Theodora, with Jonathan Cohen

Podcasts

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Gramophone

Arcangelo's conductor Jonathan Cohen on recording Handel's powerful oratoria, Theodora

Arvo Pärt: Tractus (Tönu Klajuste)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The vocal works seem to transcend speech, while the orchestral pieces clearly articulate their source texts

Apollo5: Haven

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Some of the most insightfully earthy singing of Byrd (the Mass for Five Voices) you’re likely to hear

Ola Gjeilo: Dreamweaver

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The Holloway singers don’t go sad-sack on it but simply and subtly temper their delivery

‘Stick to the music’ | Sir James MacMillan interview

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

| Choir and Organ

As the composer is celebrated for his impact in the art and craft of music creation, we find out how it all began

The value in variety of both artists and styles to classical music

Blogs

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Gramophone

Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the March 2024 issue of Gramophone

RPS announces winners of 2024 awards

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| Gramophone

UK music society hosts its awards in Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music for the first time

Six new works premiered at JAM's 'Music of Our Time' concert

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Tonight sees the premieres of six new works at JAM's concert at St Brides, Fleet St

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 83. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 (Elly Ney)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Ney is a classic case of the divided self, the frequent division of an artist’s outer and inner nature

Brown: Baroquery, Op 105. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 99 (Nathan Williamson)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Taken as a whole, this is a remarkably assured set, one that in whole or in part deserves the widest currency

Sony Classical signs pianist Hayato Sumino

Classical Music News

Friday, March 8, 2024

| Gramophone

Japanese pianist, composer and social media star Hayato Sumino joins Sony Classical's roster of artists

The Borletti-Buitoni Trust announces 2024 BBT Award and Fellowship winners