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Watch the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie's 5th anniversary gala concert

Features

Friday, January 14, 2022

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All-contemporary programme features music by John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Thomas Adès

After nearly 60 years, a pianist returns to Decca

Classical Music News

Sunday, January 16, 2022

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Ruth Slenczynska, 96, to release a new album

Top 10 Opera Composers

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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A beginner's guide tracing the extraordinary development of opera from Monteverdi in the 17th century to Saariaho today, via the masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Britten

Introducing the March 2022 issue of Gramophone

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Friday, February 18, 2022

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John Adams at 75: how the composer became one of modern music’s most powerful voices | Emőke Baráth on recording Handel’s heroines and heroes | Respighi’s Rome: who best captures the Eternal City? | Frank Peter Zimmermann’s solo Bach journey

A new classical music festival lands on Ibiza

Classical Music News

Monday, February 21, 2022

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The team behind the Verbier Festival music to the party island in the Balearics

‘I’m not really interested in superficiality right now, there’s plenty of that’ | Joyce DiDonato’s bold new musical mission

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Friday, February 25, 2022

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Joyce DiDonato’s new project asks us to reconnect with the natural world, finds Martin Cullingford – and what better way to do that than simply to stop and listen?

‘Winterreise always gives just tiny hints and it opens your imagination’ | Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu interview

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

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Benjamin Appl has recorded Winterreise twice – once for BBC TV and once for Alpha Classics. James Jolly speaks to him and his pianist James Baillieu about Schubert’s great song-cycle

Video of the Day: Poulenc's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Classical Music News

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

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Performance taken from Maximiliano Martín's new Delphian album

Rachel Willis-Sørensen signs to Sony Classical

Classical Music News

Friday, February 25, 2022

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The American soprano will release her first solo album in April

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: April 2022 | The best new classical recordings

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Friday, March 18, 2022

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Featuring outstanding new recordings of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Vivaldi's L’estro armonico, the complete Sibelius symphonies, Mendelssohn's String Quintets and more

Introducing the April 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Klaus Mäkelä

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Friday, March 18, 2022

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Klaus Mäkelä: superb Sibelius from the most talked-about conductor of his generation | Handel’s Messiah: the finest recordings to hear | Johan Dalene: the young violinist’s concerto album | Glenn Gould: the making of a piano icon

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on his continuing Mozart piano concerto cycle

Podcasts

Friday, April 8, 2022

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The pianist discusses volume six, featuring No 22, K482 and No 23, K488

Stewart Brown, founder of Testament Records, has died aged 69

Classical Music News

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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We pay tribute to the founder of the Award-winning reissues label

Video of the Day: Requiem Aeternum, from Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Excelsus

Classical Music News

Friday, May 6, 2022

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Thomas Carroll plays the opening movement, taken from the newly released EP on Orchid Classics

The Best Classical Music Albums of 2022

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Monday, December 12, 2022

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Our guide to the most outstanding new classical music albums of 2022. Featuring sensational new versions of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Beethoven's symphonies, Vivaldi's violin concertos and much more