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New Podcast: the life and music of Richard Strauss

Classical Music News

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

| Gramophone

James Jolly and Gramophone critic Hugo Shirley discuss the composer in his 150th anniversary year

Playlists – November 2014

Features

Saturday, November 15, 2014

| Gramophone

Music – the soundtrack to our lives

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Monday, November 24, 2014

| Gramophone

Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| Gramophone

Strauss’s tone-poem may have been hijacked by the movies but there’s far more to the score than that famous sunrise, argues Philip Clark, as he seeks the finest recording

To find some of the best new music we must look beyond the familiar names

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

| Gramophone

Linn offer 24 days of free high-resolution downloads

Classical Music News

Monday, December 1, 2014

| Gramophone

The annual giveaway from Linn begins on December 1

Win Sir John Eliot Gardiner's complete Bach cantatas box-set!

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

| Gramophone

Enter our competition to win this luxuriously presented and beautifully recorded collection

What new and emerging composers need more than anything: a good commercial recording

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Friday, December 5, 2014

| Gramophone

The importance of Christmas music

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Friday, December 5, 2014

| Gramophone

Video: inspirational Mozart in Afghanistan

Classical Music News

Thursday, December 11, 2014

| Gramophone

The orchestra of the Afghanistan National institute of Music play Mozart's Turkish Rondo

Mahler's Symphony No 4, by David Zinman

Features

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

| Gramophone

Music and the fight for freedom of speech

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Monday, January 19, 2015

| Gramophone

Why reinvent Mozart's Don Giovanni?

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

| Gramophone

Win Mozart's complete works!

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

| Gramophone

Gramophone has a fantastic 170-disc box-set of Mozart's complete works to give away. Enter the prize draw to win...

Is the future of music tuition online?

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

| Gramophone

The Gramophone Choice: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

| Gramophone

We recommend some of the very finest recordings of Stravinsky's explosive ballet score

Contemporary composer: John Adams

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Friday, February 13, 2015

| Gramophone

James McCarthy celebrates that rare beast – a composer who writes music that is enjoyed by the critics and the public alike

'A piano duet which harnesses the ability of slime mould to perform computational tasks'

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Friday, February 20, 2015

| Gramophone

Jeering, catcalls, and a wandering cat - the birth of Rossini's Barber of Seville

Features

Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Gramophone

Richard Osborne looks back at the disastrous first performance of Rossini's masterpiece

Sir Charles Groves - 100 years on

Features

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

| Gramophone

To mark the centenary of his birth today, we revisit an interview from exactly 25 years ago when Anne Inglis met up with Sir Charles to talk over some of his new releases (reprinted from Gramophone, March 1990).

Maria Callas – the Tosca sessions

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

| Gramophone

Maria Callas’s famous 1953 Tosca, as Christopher Cook reveals for the first time, was riven by tension and driven by a relentless quest for perfection