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Hyperion Records: we explore the Award-winning label

Podcasts

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Gramophone

To mark the label's arrival on streaming services, we share ten of our favourite Hyperion albums

Kenneth Fuchs on his first Chandos album with John Wilson

Podcasts

Friday, July 14, 2023

| Gramophone

The American composer launches a new recording relationship with the Sinfonia of London and Chandos

Video of the Day: the deeply beautiful sound of the contrabass flute

Classical Music News

Friday, June 30, 2023

| Gramophone

If you've never heard a contrabass flute before then you are in for a treat. Daniela Mars conjures a haunting evocation of the first moments of morning light

Eric Whitacre: Home

Review

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

This intense, beautifully crafted and very personal piece speaks eloquently to young adults of today

Ivo Antognini: Come to me in the silence of the night & other choral works

Review

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Stephen Layton has the singers exactly on point in material like Lux aeterna and the quietly devastating Those tender words

From LeBron James to La Serenissima: what lies behind the limitless appeal of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons?

Features

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

| Gramophone

Mark Seow traces the rise to ubiquity of Vivaldi’s famed work – and hears from some of today’s leading violinists about why it’s beloved by both artists and audiences

Thomas Trotter: celebrating 40 years as Birmingham City Organist

Features

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The City Organist is uniquely placed to build a relationship with local audiences and introduce them to a vast range of music through original works and transcriptions. Thomas Trotter champions the role and argues that it’s worth maintaining

Pianist Cordelia Williams on the beguiling nature of musical miniatures

Blogs

Friday, September 15, 2023

| Gramophone

Rather than a coherent ‘whole’, this music gives us micro-glimpses into countless worlds – inner worlds, literal worlds, dissolving worlds, worlds of imagination

Puccini: Tosca at Northern Ireland Opera | Live Review

Review

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

| Opera Now

An intelligent new production from NI Opera of Puccini's masterpiece is full of vocal intensity

Wynton Marsalis receives Praemium Imperiale Award

Classical Music News

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

| Gramophone

Director Robert Wilson and sculptor Olafur Eliasson also among recipients

New workshop for Dobson's

News

Saturday, August 12, 2023

| Choir and Organ

On 5 July Dobson Pipe Organ Builders broke ground for the firm’s new workshop

Introducing: 22 Nocturnes for Chopin by Women Composers

Features

Monday, October 2, 2023

| International Piano

Elena Cobb, the publisher of EVC Music, introduces a volume of new compositions by women composers written in Homage to Chopin, all of which are accessible to intermediate-level pianists