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Monday, July 1, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The London choir performs Fauré's famous work conducted by Michael Waldron

Composer, John Rutter knighted in King’s Birthday Honours

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The 78 year-old composer was previously given a CBE in 2007 for services to music

Sonya Yoncheva and Domingo Hindoyan: ‘We’re motivated by love and passion in our careers. And we apply that same passion to our relationships’

Thursday, July 11, 2024

| Opera Now

Connected by a musical admiration and passion for community music-making, the classical celebrity couple soprano Sonya Yoncheva and conductor Domingo Hindoyan take stock as they celebrate 10 years of marriage

Beethoven: the best recordings from the past two years

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

| Gramophone

All of these Beethoven recordings were chosen as Editor's Choice or Recording of the Month in Gramophone magazine from 2022 to today

The Gramophone Guide to … Compact Hi-Fi

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

The latest amplifier technology is making possible truly tiny hi-fi components without compromising audio quality. Andrew Everard is thinking small

Dalia's Mixtape: Judith Weir's 'Still, Glowing'

Podcasts

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

Dalia Stasevska, Judith Weir and Andrew Mellor discuss the latest orchestral work to take its place in 'Dalia's Mixtape'

Tarmo Peltokoski announced as Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Thursday, July 4, 2024

| Gramophone

The Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski will become the Orchestra’s 9th Music Director

Wagner: The Ring Cycle at Longborough Festival Opera

Thursday, July 18, 2024

| Opera Now

The Cotswold opera company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a performance of Wagner's great works

Editor's Choice: August 2024 | The best new classical recordings

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

This month we feature outstanding new recordings from Konstantin Krimmel, Rebeca Omordia, Paavo Järvi and Gustavo Dudamel

Excellence and relevance in opera are not mutually exclusive | Andrew Mellor opinion

Opinion

Monday, July 15, 2024

| Opera Now

The traditional operatic canon can still profoundly speak to us today

Southwark Cathedral music director dies aged 42

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Ian Keatley, who died while on holiday this week, is remembered as ‘an incredibly talented musician’

Three Choirs Festival announces new CEO

Thursday, August 1, 2024

| Choir and Organ

David Francis replaces Alexis Paterson at the festival in the autumn

Video of the Day: Chanticleer performs Ronell's 'Willow Weep for Me'

Thursday, August 1, 2024

| Gramophone

The 12-piece vocal ensemble performs as part of the LIVE from London festival

Sophie Bevan on overcoming adversity

Podcasts

Friday, July 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Meeting soprano Sophie Bevan as she takes on new roles and reflects on her time out due to cancer

New organist at St Paul's Cathedral

Monday, August 5, 2024

| Choir and Organ

James Orford joins the Cathedral from his post at St Paul's Knightsbridge

Review - Cambridge Audio CXA81 Mk II

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

The model it replaces was already excellent, but digital and analogue upgrades have made this integrated amplifier an even better buy

Book review - Olivier Messiaen (A Critical Biography) By Robert Sholl

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

This is a book that manages to say a great deal in relatively few words

Grace-Evangeline Mason - O Sapientia

Music Series

Monday, October 16, 2023

| Choir and Organ

A judicious use of effects and expressive textures enhances O Sapientia, Grace-Evangeline Mason’s choral setting for Advent. She talks to Matthew Power

Meeting composer Kerry Andrew: ‘A lot of the pieces I write for young people are about identity and being heard ... I don’t think I was always heard as a teenager’

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Leah Broad meets one of the UK’s most celebrated choral composers as they champion self-expression, activism and identity

Introducing the September 2024 issue of Gramophone, featuring Nathalie Stutzmann

Classical Music News

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Nathalie Stutzmann: the conductor launches a new era in Atlanta with Dvořák; plus, the greatest Puccini singers, and their must-hear recordings

The composer Alexander Goehr has died at the age of 92

Classical Music News

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

| Gramophone

Alexander Goehr was one of the leading Modernists of the 1960s generation

Exclusive video interview: Klaus Mäkelä on Shostakovich's symphonies

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

| Gramophone

The Finnish Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Klaus Mäkelä introduces his new Decca recording of three Shostakovich symphonies

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2024 Shortlist is revealed!

Classical Music News

Friday, August 23, 2024

| Gramophone

Discover the 66 recordings that have been shortlisted for Gramophone Classical Music Awards this year in our free digital edition

Holst's The Planets: a guide to the greatest recordings

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Holst’s celestial suite has long been a showpiece for virtuoso orchestras and a sonic spectacular for hi‑fi buffs. Andrew Farach‑Colton chooses his favourite versions from across a century of recordings

Leonard Slatkin interview: ‘I’m leaving it to the younger generation to figure out what’s important’