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Jed Distler remembers the Brazilian musician hailed as a pianists’ pianist, whose abilities bordered on the supernatural and who left a treasure-laden legacy on record

Tazewell Thompson: Jubilee at Seattle Opera | Live Review

Review

Thursday, October 17, 2024

| Opera Now

Jubilee is a quintessentially ensemble opera, for which Thompson assembled an excellent cast of 13 singers, most of them making their Seattle Opera debuts ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Gramophone Orchestral Award 2024: Vaughan Williams's Job: A Masque for Dancing

Features

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

| Gramophone

The symphonic potential of Job is revealed, as are some RVW rarities

Leif Segerstam – Obituary

Classical Music News

Thursday, October 10, 2024

| Gramophone

Composer and conductor Leif Segerstam, born: March 2, 1944; died: October 9, 2024

Video of the Day: Elizabeth Adams and Victoria Barnes perform with Adrian Brockless his single ‘My True Love’

News

Friday, November 1, 2024

| Gramophone

The song highlights the impact of family lineage on Brockless's music

Lucie Horsch interview: ‘Each recorder has a real personality of its own’

Features

Friday, November 1, 2024

| Gramophone

For her latest Decca album, ‘The Frans Brüggen Project’, Lucie Horsch was granted special access to the early music pioneer’s extraordinary collection of historical recorders

Oxford International Song Festival roundup | Live Review

Review

Thursday, October 31, 2024

| Opera Now

'Without doubt this is the most ambitious song event in Britain' – Adrian Mourby surveys proceedings at the Oxford-based festival

Video of the Day: Hanni Liang performs the second movement from Ethel Smyth’s Sonata No.2 in C sharp minor

News

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

| Gramophone

The single can be found on Liang’s debut album ‘Voices’ on Delphian Records

Alec Frank-Gemmill on Mozart's horn concertos

Podcasts

Friday, November 8, 2024

| Gramophone

The virtuoso introduces these joyful masterpieces

Conductor Nicholas Collon on his new 'Music of the Spheres' album

Podcasts

Friday, June 12, 2020

| Gramophone

Aurora Orchestra have just released a DG recording of music by Mozart, Thomas Adès, Max Richter, Dowland/Nico Muhly and David Bowie

If we value music, how should we express that?

Blogs

Friday, June 12, 2020

| Gramophone

With so much music available for free, it's important to remember it costs money to make

How we made England, my England: 'They actually built a sort-of London for me to burn down. What heaven!'

Features

Monday, August 17, 2020

| Gramophone

Tony Palmer reflects on the making of his acclaimed 1995 film on Purcell, now being re-released as a deluxe edition

Why I refuse to accept the current state of (non) play

Blogs

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

| Gramophone

Jamie Walton, cellist and Founder and Curator of the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival on how live concerts must not be allowed to fade away: 'We seem to be living in some kind of paralysed state, whilst the rest of Europe creatively wakes up'

Max Bruch: Touching the Divine

Features

Thursday, August 20, 2020

| Gramophone

He may have been less adventurous than Brahms but Bruch had a remarkable ear for melody, and in his late works he captured a profound level of expression, writes Andrew Mellor as we approach the centenary of the composer’s death