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Editor's Choice: February 2023 | The best new classical recordings

Friday, January 27, 2023

| Gramophone

Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Anne Queffélec's Beethoven sonatas, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say play Bartók, Brahms and Janáček

REMA Awards: Rewarding the Best in Early Music

Features

Thursday, February 2, 2023

| Gramophone

Laureates of the 2022 REMA Awards show that early music in Europe has an ear on the past and an eye on the future

The best new classical albums this week (February 10, 2023)

Features

Friday, February 10, 2023

| Gramophone

New accounts of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4, a Chopin recital, Bach's violin concertos and the chamber music of Pamela Harrison

Stephen Layton to leave Trinity College Cambridge

Classical Music News

Friday, March 10, 2023

| Gramophone

Conductor stepping down after 17 successful years to pursue guest-conducting career

Britten Sinfonia launches £1m appeal in wake of Arts Council cuts

Classical Music News

Friday, March 10, 2023

| Gramophone

World-leading composers, singers and instrumentalists lend their support in campaign video

East Meets West: Aiman Mussakhajayeva records Lowell Liebermann's Violin Concerto

Features

Monday, April 3, 2023

| Gramophone

Jack Pepper sits down with the Artistic Director of Global Music Partnership, Dr Vladimir Dyo, to hear how he helped bring these two diverse artists together

Cédric Tiberghien on piano variations by Beethoven … and more

Podcasts

Friday, April 7, 2023

| Gramophone

The French pianist launches a new series centred on Beethoven's many sets of theme and variations for solo piano

Introducing the May 2023 issue of Gramophone, featuring Randall Goosby

Features

Friday, April 14, 2023

| Gramophone

Randall Goosby: the thrilling violinist’s first concerto album | Pablo Casals: we celebrate a revered icon of the cello | Chopin’s Études: which are the best recordings?

Keep raising your voices for classical music!

Blogs

Friday, April 14, 2023

| Gramophone

Making a video, sharing speeches, signing petitions: it all makes a difference

The best new classical albums this week (April 28, 2023)

Classical Music News

Friday, April 28, 2023

| Gramophone

Discover new recordings of CPE Bach's violin sonatas, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, English lute songs and more

James Newby on 'Fallen to Dust', an English song recital

Podcasts

Friday, April 28, 2023

| Gramophone

The British baritone has recorded his second album for BIS, a collection of songs prompted by a very personal experience

Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

Podcasts

Friday, May 19, 2023

| Gramophone

The Gramophone Award-winning pianist marks Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary with a twinned release

An inspiring musical offering to an often under-served minority

Blogs

Monday, June 12, 2023

| Gramophone

David Fray’s L’Offrande Musicale festival brings world class music-making to hundreds of disabled people, and the result is magnificent and moving

Debussy: early and late piano pieces (Steven Osborne)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Osborne’s performances are of a superfine mastery

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Fedorova is undoubtedly a fine performer but her playing has a certain reticence about it

Transcriptions (Angelo Villani)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

It is Villani's melodic touch, projection and careful weighting of chords that gets to the music's core

Dance! – Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

These are clear, crafted performances in high quality sound captured by Adaq Khan at London's Menuhin Hall

Bringing the piano to the masses – is this the way to do it?

Opinion

Saturday, April 22, 2023

| International Piano

In an age of dumbed-down expectations, Charivari overcomes initial scepticism and applauds a mainstream television programme that celebrates our favourite instrument in all its diversity

Why do so few female composers appear on recital programmes?

Opinion

Thursday, June 1, 2023

| International Piano

Should gender come before talent when programming composers? Charivari steps onto a slippery slope

Full circle: Bernhardt Edskes and a 1960s Metzler organ

Features

Thursday, March 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The enlargement of a 1960s Metzler organ in the Netherlands has bookended the career of the late Bernhardt Edskes. Chris Bragg went to visit

A close look at the rebuilt organ at St Gabriel's Pimlico

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

A Victorian church in central London at last has an organ to suit its needs. Matthew Power visits the recent rebuild and talks to Nicholson & Co. about their work

David Hill in conversation with... Andrew Nethsingha

Features

Monday, January 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Incoming organist and master of the choristers, Westminster Abbey, Andrew Nethsingha

Sergei Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Review

Friday, July 1, 2022

| Choir and Organ

It's unlikely any forthcoming recordings will top this one

Andrew Parrott on The Taverner Consort at 50: ‘It’s not that I believe in perfection. I think that could be very boring’

Features

Thursday, May 25, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The Taverner Consort, Choir & Players were among the first pioneers in the modern age to perform early music. Its founder Andrew Parrott is still driven by an urge to push boundaries

Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound – Sacred music for upper voices and organ from the Charity Institutions for girls and boys in Georgian London

Review

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound is a fascinating collection of ten works by men and women composers drawn from publications originally issued by the charity institutions of London throughout the period 1729-1804

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Editor's Choice: February 2023 | The best new classical recordings

REMA Awards: Rewarding the Best in Early Music

The best new classical albums this week (February 10, 2023)

Stephen Layton to leave Trinity College Cambridge

Britten Sinfonia launches £1m appeal in wake of Arts Council cuts

East Meets West: Aiman Mussakhajayeva records Lowell Liebermann's Violin Concerto

Cédric Tiberghien on piano variations by Beethoven … and more

Introducing the May 2023 issue of Gramophone, featuring Randall Goosby

Keep raising your voices for classical music!

The best new classical albums this week (April 28, 2023)

James Newby on 'Fallen to Dust', an English song recital

Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

An inspiring musical offering to an often under-served minority

Debussy: early and late piano pieces (Steven Osborne)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)

Transcriptions (Angelo Villani)

Dance! – Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé

Bringing the piano to the masses – is this the way to do it?

Why do so few female composers appear on recital programmes?

Full circle: Bernhardt Edskes and a 1960s Metzler organ

A close look at the rebuilt organ at St Gabriel's Pimlico

David Hill in conversation with... Andrew Nethsingha

Sergei Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Andrew Parrott on The Taverner Consort at 50: ‘It’s not that I believe in perfection. I think that could be very boring’

Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound – Sacred music for upper voices and organ from the Charity Institutions for girls and boys in Georgian London

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