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Igor Levit’s new album features two huge – and hugely significant – 20th-century works. Michelle Assay meets the pianist to explore their underlying meaning

The Listening Room (24.9.21)

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Friday, September 24, 2021

| Gramophone

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Florence Price, Anna Netrebko sings Tchaikovsky, Jeremy Denk plays Mozart and Isabelle Faust and the AAM Berlin play Bach.

Nathalie Stutzmann named Music Director of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Classical Music News

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

| Gramophone

Conductor and acclaimed contralto takes up post next autumn

Benjamin Appl signs to Alpha Classics

Classical Music News

Thursday, October 21, 2021

| Gramophone

The baritone - and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year - begins partnership with Winterreise

Haitink in the recording studio – a reminiscence

Features

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

| Gramophone

The former EMI producer, now President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, recalls working with the great conductor

Shostakovich: 30 Recommended Recordings

Features

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

| Gramophone

Outstanding interpretations of Shostakovich's music from Rostropovich, Bernstein, Muti, Petrenko, Nelsons and more...

Dreams and music: Jacob Mühlrad

Features

Thursday, November 11, 2021

| Gramophone

The composer's first orchestral work - a Royal Stockholm commission - reconstructs the very sounds from his sleep

Stephen Hough plays Chopin's F sharp Major Nocturne, Op 15, No 2

Features

Monday, November 22, 2021

| Gramophone

Film released to celebrate the pianist's 60th - plus, win a signed copy of his Nocturnes recording!

Video of the day: Snowflakes, from Ex Cathedra

Features

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| Gramophone

Alec Roth's beautiful setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem

Video of the Day: La Filadora, by The King's Singers

Features

Friday, December 3, 2021

| Gramophone

An exclusive video from the forthcoming Live from London Christmas Festival 2021

Video of the Day: Jess Gillam plays Carol of the Bells

Features

Monday, December 20, 2021

| Gramophone

Star saxophonist plays all 16 parts of John Metcalfe's new arrangement

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

Features

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

| Gramophone

The best new classical recordings reviewed in the January 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Lise Davidsen & Leif Ove Andsnes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Sol Gabetta, Cecilia Bartoli and more...

Calling all young classical writers!

Classical Music News

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

| Gramophone

The RPS launches this year’s edition of the Young Classical Writers Prize

After Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata, which music should you explore?

Features

Friday, January 21, 2022

| Gramophone

Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? We suggest some musical journeys that venture beyond the most familiar works, with some recommended versions. Geraint Lewis’s point of departure is Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata

Video of the Day: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Manchester Camerata)

Features

Thursday, January 20, 2022

| Gramophone

Manchester Camerata and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet give a wonderful performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9

Gramophone Podcast: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 5

Podcasts

Friday, January 21, 2022

| Gramophone

Celebrating the transformative effect of a major new concert hall with its General Artistic Director Christoph Lieben-Seutter and the Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert

Introducing the February 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Joyce DiDonato

Features

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

| Gramophone

Joyce Didonato: The mezzo’s mission to help us reconnect with nature - and with ourselves | Schubert’s Winterreise: Benjamin Appl records the powerful song-cycle | Mozart’s Symphony No 40: Which is the best recording of this ever-popular work?

Elsa Dreisig’s fresh new take on Mozart: ‘In this business, these “rules” we have are not actually real. It’s first of all about interpretation’

Features

Thursday, February 10, 2022

| Gramophone

For her new album, French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig has turned on its head every preconception about the characters in Mozart’s operas, portraying credible, sympathetic women who have lived real, often messy lives, discovers Neil Fisher

Icon: Enrico Caruso

Features

Friday, February 11, 2022

| Gramophone

Tully Potter describes the plentiful gifts of this tenor, whom he first encountered as a boy – from an exceptional opulence of tone to vivid acting ability in both comic and tragic roles

BBC Four screens John Bridcut's Winterreise film

Classical Music News

Thursday, February 24, 2022

| Gramophone

Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu perform Schubert's song-cycle in a magnificent Alpine setting

Valery Gergiev's international roles and appearances are being cancelled

Classical Music News

Monday, February 28, 2022

| Gramophone

The conductor and Putin supporter is told to distance himself from Russia's invasion of Ukraine or lose his jobs

Video of the Day: Met Opera performs Ukrainian national anthem

Classical Music News

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| Gramophone

New York company opens Verdi's Don Carlos with powerful show of support

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Dubai’s Classic Piano Competition Enters Second Round

Primephonic acquired by Apple

This Week's Essential New Albums (Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, Respighi)

‘There are some musicians who believe that just by playing a concerto they can bring people together – well, you can’t’ | Igor Levit interview

The Listening Room (24.9.21)

Nathalie Stutzmann named Music Director of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Appl signs to Alpha Classics

Haitink in the recording studio – a reminiscence

Shostakovich: 30 Recommended Recordings

Dreams and music: Jacob Mühlrad

Stephen Hough plays Chopin's F sharp Major Nocturne, Op 15, No 2

Video of the day: Snowflakes, from Ex Cathedra

Video of the Day: La Filadora, by The King's Singers

Video of the Day: Jess Gillam plays Carol of the Bells

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

Calling all young classical writers!

After Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata, which music should you explore?

Video of the Day: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Manchester Camerata)

Gramophone Podcast: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 5

Introducing the February 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Joyce DiDonato

Elsa Dreisig’s fresh new take on Mozart: ‘In this business, these “rules” we have are not actually real. It’s first of all about interpretation’

Icon: Enrico Caruso

BBC Four screens John Bridcut's Winterreise film

Valery Gergiev's international roles and appearances are being cancelled

Video of the Day: Met Opera performs Ukrainian national anthem

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