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Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

This is beautiful music, wonderfully recorded

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Delightful discoveries abound. Look no further than the opening track, Blue Blazes by Joseph Tunbridge, one of seven world premiere recordings

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Features

Thursday, March 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

‘The past is another country’ - and so was early music when the Tallis Scholars first assembled to perform it 50 years ago. Founder-director Peter Phillips talks to Clare Stevens about how performing techniques have been honed in the intervening decades, and how Renaissance music has enjoyed its own rebirth

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

His archetypal performance was self-assured, lustrous, multi-hued, inventive, and perceptive

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Paul Hale explores projects from the workshop of J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Photos courtesy of the organ builder

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Conductor, animateur and presenter Lucy Hollins on her musical passions

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

News

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Contemporary music also features in the festival’s programme, with a concert of arrangements for organ and percussion of pieces by rock musician Frank Zappa

Shining a light on a hidden Renaissance gem: Obrecht's Missa Maria zart

Features

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

| Gramophone

Cappella Pratensis have created a unique new manuscript to get even closer to the heart of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart, the longest Renaissance Mass setting

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Ella Marchment's staging of the UK premiere of Libby Larsen's opera was 'exhaustingly alive'

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Classical Music News

Monday, July 10, 2023

| Gramophone

Why the London Philharmonic Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

Features

Monday, August 21, 2023

| International Piano

Sulamita Aronovsky fled the Soviet Union in 1971 and built a formidable reputation as a teacher in London. Michael Church offers first-hand recollections of this indefatigable and inspirational musician

JS Bach: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Features

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| Gramophone

Every recording of JS Bach's music to have won a Gramophone Award since 1977, featuring outstanding accounts of the St Matthew Passion, Goldberg Variations, Cello Suites and more

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

Features

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| International Piano

Charles Timbrell explores the history on record of one of Chopin’s late masterpieces and recommends some listening

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Opinion

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Life beyond the country house – one summer weekend in the broadsheets crystallises the stark crossroads facing British opera

Michael Boyd | My Music: ‘The ambiguity of music is really extremely valuable’

Features

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

| Gramophone

In 2006 Michael Boyd spoke to Gramophone about how he felt that music could communicate what words could not

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

A meaningfully staged production of Wagner's three act opera at Grange Park, conducted by Stephen Barlow

Video of the Day: the exquisite melancholy of Wilbye’s ‘Draw on Sweet Night’ performed by VOCES8

Classical Music News

Saturday, July 22, 2023

| Gramophone

VOCES8 – filmed in the Nikolai Kirche in Plön (Schleswig-Holstein) – perform Wilbye’s atmospheric ‘Draw on Sweet Night’

Decca Icons: Bernard Haitink

Podcasts

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

| Gramophone

We focus on the great Dutch conductor's recorded legacy for Philips and Decca

Plínio Fernandes plays Bach in a beautiful new video

Features

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Gramophone

The Brazilian guitarist also reveals details of his new Decca Gold album

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

Opinion

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| Opera Now

Homophobia surrounded the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. Robert Reid Allan's true-story opera looks at this landmark in queer history and questions how far we have still to go

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Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

Shining a light on a hidden Renaissance gem: Obrecht's Missa Maria zart

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

JS Bach: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Michael Boyd | My Music: ‘The ambiguity of music is really extremely valuable’

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Video of the Day: the exquisite melancholy of Wilbye’s ‘Draw on Sweet Night’ performed by VOCES8

Decca Icons: Bernard Haitink

Plínio Fernandes plays Bach in a beautiful new video

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

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