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Exploring Shostakovich

Podcasts

Friday, September 1, 2023

| Gramophone

Edward Seckerson joins the podcast to discuss one of the 20th century's greatest composers

Gramophone's Orchestral Award: every winning album from 2000 to 2023

Features

Thursday, October 19, 2023

| Gramophone

Here are all of the winners of the Orchestral category since 2000, featuring recordings conducted by Claudio Abbado, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Kirill Petrenko, Riccardo Chailly and many more

Gramophone Awards Shortlist 2023: Concerto Category

Features

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

| Gramophone

Recordings of works by Elgar, Stravinsky, Beethoven and Ravel are shortlisted for the Concerto Award at this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Leslie Howard at 75

Features

Monday, October 16, 2023

| International Piano

Colin Clarke catches up with the Australian Pianist

'If we don’t share these stories, then we forget' – 10 Days in a Madhouse | Opera Philadelphia

Features

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| Opera Now

Opera Philadelphia stages a world premiere telling the story of journalist Nellie Bly as she exposed the mistreatment of women within mental hospitals

Yunchan Lim signs to Decca Classics

Classical Music News

Thursday, October 19, 2023

| Gramophone

Last year's Van Cliburn winner, Yunchan Lim, will release debut Decca album in the spring

Donizetti and Friends: Opera Rara at Wigmore Hall | Live Review

Review

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| Opera Now

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Carlo Rizzi present the start to Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project

John Sheppard: Missa Cantate

Review

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Captivating vistas of the six-voice Missa Cantate appear alongside stunningly inventive examples of chant-based responsories, hymns and votive antiphons

Music Teachers Through Time – A Playlist

Blogs

Friday, November 10, 2023

| Gramophone

In Part Two of our countdown to this month’s Music For Youth Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, composer and MFY Ambassador Jack Pepper curates a playlist of music written by the finest music teachers…

Piano masterclass: Mozart's Fantasy in D minor, K397

Features

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

| International Piano

David Dolan talks readers through a range of methods that can be geared towards achieving an appropriate character of improvisation and spontaneous freedom in Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor, K397

Miloš on his new album 'Baroque'

Podcasts

Friday, October 20, 2023

| Gramophone

The guitarist joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk about his Editor's Choice recording

Easterly Winds

News

Friday, November 10, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Organist Thomas Trotter to give recital on newly rebuilt Norwich Cathedral organ

Video of the Day: Clara Orif sings Gonoud's 'Ah, je veux vivre'

Classical Music News

Thursday, October 26, 2023

| Gramophone

The Royal Academy Opera soprano brings the famous aria to life

Language, drama and power: opera companies and an obsession with English translation

Features

Monday, February 5, 2024

| Opera Now

Soprano Claire Booth presents her research into opera in the English language, asking whether it crosses the barrier to accessibility that companies have us believe

Gramophone magazine: a history – the 1940s

Features

Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Gramophone

Reading the correspondence pages from the early 1940s is to be genuinely moved by not only the absolutely essential nature of music in the lives of so many soldiers, sailors and airmen, but how The Gramophone had created its own tight-knit community