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For the virtuoso Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, championing the lesser-known composers will always be at the heart of what he does, albeit with a little Rachmaninov and Schubert thrown in, writes Harriet Smith

Competition: win 'Maria Callas – Live' box-set

Features

Friday, September 22, 2017

| Gramophone

An opportunity to win Warner Classics' momentous Callas box-set. Plus, listen to extracts from before and after the remastering process

Watch live rehearsals of Kenneth MacMillan’s The Judas Tree on World Ballet Day

Classical Music News

Monday, October 2, 2017

| Gramophone

The Royal Ballet rehearses MacMillan’s last work, with music by Brian Elias, as part of a worldwide 22-hour live stream of dance, writes Sarah Kirkup

New music, like whisky, needs time to mature

Blogs

Thursday, October 5, 2017

| Gramophone

Remembering Pavarotti, 10 years on

Blogs

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

| Gramophone

Video of the day: exploring Hamlet, the play and the opera, with Samuel West

Features

Monday, October 23, 2017

| Gramophone

Alexandra Coghlan presents an engaging insight into Brett Dean's new operatic Hamlet from Glyndebourne, alongside Samuel West, David Butt Philip and Jennifer France

BBC Concert Orchestra names new Principal Conductor

Classical Music News

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

| Gramophone

Bramwell Tovey to take over from January

Bent Sørensen wins the Grawemeyer Award, worth $100,000

Classical Music News

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| Gramophone

Danish composer given award for his triple concerto L’isola della Città

The Best Reissues & Archive Releases of 2017

Features

Friday, December 8, 2017

| Gramophone

Here are Editor Martin Cullingford's selections, by issue, of the finest reissues and archive releases of 2017

A Christmassy Collection of New Meanings for Old Words

Features

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

| Gramophone

Tim Lihoreau offers up his unique definitions of a few long-neglected words. Surprisingly, many of them seem to relate to music and/or Christmas. Who would have thought?

The specialist's guide to animals in music (with ten essential recordings)

Features

Monday, January 15, 2018

| Gramophone

There are the usual suspects by Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and so on, but here Harriet Smith digs deep to find a host of less obvious examples of pieces inspired by the animal kingdom

The best new classical albums – February 2018

Features

Friday, January 26, 2018

| Gramophone

Editor Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

Introducing Gramophone's February 2018 issue

Features

Friday, January 26, 2018

| Gramophone

Video of the day: Gelgotas's Sanctifaction

Features

Monday, February 5, 2018

| Gramophone

Gediminas Gelgotas performs his 'Sanctifaction' with double bassist Roman Patkoló

Jóhann Jóhannsson has died at the age of 48

Classical Music News

Monday, February 12, 2018

| Gramophone

The Golden Globe winning composer has died in Berlin

'In the Footsteps of Debussy' – Part 2

Features

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

| Gramophone

To mark the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy's death, Warner Classics has produced a three-part documentary series. We are pleased to introduce Part 2 of 'In the Footsteps of Debussy'