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German organ builder Jürgen Ahrend has died aged 94

News

Friday, August 2, 2024

| Choir and Organ

1930-2024

Classical Season Preview 2024-25: Europe

Features

Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

What are the most exciting concerts and operas to look forward to over the coming season across Europe? Jack Pepper is your guide

The delicate art of reconstructing a Renaissance Mass

Features

Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

As well as attending sessions for a recording of Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella, Edward Breen learns from Fabrice Fitch about the fascinating process of reconstructing an incomplete Renaissance work

Cataloguing the world's greatest musical instruments

Features

Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

As J&A Beare publish a comprehensive catalogue of Antonio Stradivari’s instruments, James Jolly talks to the luthier Robert Brewer Young about the Italian master’s art

'Although it requires elite performers, French Baroque opera is for all' - Laurence Cummings

Opinion

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music Laurence Cummings looks back on the history of French Baroque opera and considers why it is so neglected in the UK

Remembering Gaby Casadesus

Features

Friday, August 30, 2024

| International Piano

To mark 25 years since the death at the age of 98 of Gaby Casadesus, whose life spanned almost the entire 20th century, Charles Timbrell offers a personal tribute

Alastair Fothergill | My Music: ‘What music can do, with a good composer, is it can hold the hand of the audience’

Features

Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

The award-winning documentary producer on how nature and travel inspired his love of music

Composer Errollyn Wallen named Master of the King's Music

News

Sunday, August 25, 2024

| Gramophone

The Belize-born composer becomes the first Black musician to hold the title

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2024 Nominee

Features

Monday, August 5, 2024

| Gramophone

Why the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France deserves your vote for the 2024 Orchestra of the Year Award

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2024 Nominee

Features

Monday, August 26, 2024

| Gramophone

Why the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2024 Orchestra of the Year Award

Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)

Review

Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war music like unexploded bombs from the war, the study brings life and work together

The Chopin Piano Competition: the winners' concerts

Blogs

Monday, October 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Jed Distler concludes his blog by looking forward to where the pianists' journeys will take them...

Jan Liebermann wins 2024 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition

News

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Inside Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht

Features

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

| Gramophone

Hannah Nepil talks to members of the Belcea Quartet about Schoenberg’s masterpiece

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2016 to be streamed live by medici.tv

Classical Music News

Friday, September 9, 2016

| Gramophone

The live stream will include performances by the pianist Igor Levit, violinist Vilde Frang and soprano Véronique Gens

Out now: the Gramophone Awards CD, featuring tracks from all of this year's Award-winning recordings

Classical Music News

Monday, September 19, 2016

| Gramophone

The 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards CD is available exclusively from Amazon for £4.99

Playlist: Four Last Songs – when music mirrors life

Features

Monday, September 26, 2016

| Gramophone

Hugo Shirley takes Strauss's Four Last Songs as his starting point for a musical journey

Jordan de Souza appointed Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin

Classical Music News

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

| Gramophone

The Canadian conductor takes up his new position in 2017

The golden age of the American symphony

Features

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

| Gramophone

Peter Dickinson examines how American composers reinvented the symphony in the first half of the 20th century and recommends some key recordings to seek out