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Friday, April 28, 2023

| Gramophone

Chen came to international attention in 2019, when she took First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium

Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe on 'Broken Branches'

Podcasts

Friday, May 5, 2023

| Gramophone

The tenor and guitarist both join this week's podcast to discuss their new album

Handel's home reopens after £3m restoration

Thursday, May 18, 2023

| Gramophone

The London life of the composer - and that of Jimi Hendrix - explored with astonishing attention to detail

Video of the Day: Roderick Williams sings on a windswept Aldeburgh Beach

Classical Music News

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Gramophone

Roderick Williams sings the folksong O Waly, Waly on Aldeburgh Beach to launch the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival

Randall Goosby interview: ‘I’m a big fan of slow movements – heart on the sleeve, emotional music’

Friday, June 2, 2023

| Gramophone

Whether he’s performing Max Bruch or Florence Price, for Randall Goosby it’s about searching for the music’s soul and sharing it with people

Marin Alsop is appointed to the Polish National Radio SO

Classical Music News

Monday, June 5, 2023

| Gramophone

The American conductor becomes Artistic Director and Chief Conductor

Art collected by Alice and Nikolaus Harnoncourt to go on sale

Classical Music News

Monday, June 12, 2023

| Gramophone

Christie's auction to feature art and manuscripts from across five centuries

From Handel and Hendrix to Joseph Bologne, the power of context in appreciating music

Blogs

Saturday, June 17, 2023

| Gramophone

Understanding history can add much to the impact of composers and their works

‘Opera allows us to step outside of ourselves’ | Mary Bevan interview

Monday, May 22, 2023

| Opera Now

Soprano Mary Bevan’s individuality as an artist has emerged as a bright, beautiful and unpretentious force for the good, intent on changing people’s minds about opera and its importance to society

Opera at the BBC Proms 2023

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Opera Now

A stand-out complete performance of Berlioz’s The Trojans comes on 3 September, bringing this five-act opera back to the UK for the first time in over 10 years

Gustavo Dudamel to leave Paris Opera

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Opera Now

The announcement comes two years into an intended six year tenure

Royal Opera House names principal guest conductor from 2025

Monday, June 5, 2023

| Opera Now

Speranza Scappucci will be the first in the post for over a quarter of a century

An essential light for even the gloomiest moments - Kaija Saariaho's operatic legacy

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

| Opera Now

From 'L’Amour de loin' to 'Innocence', Saariaho's operas will continue to shimmer in the darkness, says Hugh Morris

Poulenc: Dialogue des Carmélites at Glyndebourne | Live Review

Monday, June 12, 2023

| Opera Now

Barrie Kosky's production of Poulenc's masterpiece is equally harrowing and revolutionary

Fauré: Piano Music (Hannes Minnaar)

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

No pianist since the more Romantically inclined Germaine Thyssens-Valentin has shown a greater empathy for Fauré’s range

Festival Focus: Piano City Lecce

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

With performances in ornate Baroque churches, private homes, a nature reserve and even a bus, Piano City Lecce showed how the piano can infiltrate every aspect of a city's culture

Haydn: Piano Sonatas: G major Hob XVI:6; E major Hob XVI:31 (Wiener Urtext)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

This elegant new edition includes three tasteful cadenza options by Robert Levin for the third movement

NFM Choir: cultural exchange

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Since its founding in 2006, the NFM Choir has built a strong reputation for performing classical choral repertoire, not least from its native Poland. Now a new French artistic director is looking to expand the choir’s remit even further

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri (Luthers Bach Ensemble)

Friday, July 1, 2022

| Choir and Organ

Buxtehude's piece combines a stiff north German Protestant manner with a flamboyant Italian style

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Drone Mass

Friday, July 1, 2022

| Choir and Organ

Jóhann Jóhannsson builds an extraordinary electro-acoustic work that examines the poetic resonance of apparently chance juxtapositions

Introducing the June 2023 issue of Choir & Organ