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Nicky Spence joins Help Musicians as an Ambassador

Classical Music News

Friday, August 13, 2021

| Gramophone

The Scottish tenor joins the 100-year-old charity at a key moment in its history

The composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis has died

Classical Music News

Friday, September 3, 2021

| Gramophone

Born July 29, 1925; died September 2, 2021

EUFSC’s New Dubai Middle East Classical Music Academy

Features

Monday, September 6, 2021

| Gramophone

The Middle East Classical Music Academy represents an important new venture for both the events’ organisers and the local classical music community in the Middle East

Introducing the October issue of Gramophone, featuring Jakub Józef Orliński

Classical Music News

Friday, September 10, 2021

| Gramophone

Jakub Józef Orliński: a countertenor for our times | Imogen Cooper: the pianist on music and memory | Verdi’s Rigoletto: which are the finest recordings? | Season Preview: a guide to the best events worldwide

Icon: James Bowman

Features

Friday, November 5, 2021

| Gramophone

In celebration of the singer’s 80th birthday, Edward Breen looks back on a long and splendid career which established the countertenor voice in mainstream musical life

Olga Neuwirth receives Grawemeyer Award

Classical Music News

Monday, December 6, 2021

| Gramophone

Austrian composer honoured for her opera Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf's novel

Video of the Day: Stile Antico sing Byrd's Rorate caeli

Features

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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Award-winning choir perform the Advent Introit, at the Live from London Festival

Saint-Saëns: Pioneer and paradox, rethinking the composer a century on

Features

Monday, January 10, 2022

| Gramophone

Saint-Saëns was a complex, paradoxical composer who considered himself an eclectic, developed a nationalistic streak and tried not to display private emotion in his music. Tim Ashley makes the case that his originality is too easily overlooked

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason interview: ‘When you start to have a career, it looks as though it has happened suddenly but it hasn’t. It takes many years’

Features

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

| Gramophone

For their first recording as a duo, the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist-sister Isata have embraced cello sonatas by Rachmaninov and Barber, plus arrangements of songs by both composers, they tell Jeremy Nicholas

Nitin Sawhney’s new ‘War Requiem’ to premiere in Coventry

Classical Music News

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

| Gramophone

The Award-winning musician has drawn on the voices of the people of the city for his latest work, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Cathedral’s consecration and Britten’s landmark choral masterpiece

Hans Lauterslager: the balance engineer on life at Philips

Features

Friday, February 25, 2022

| Gramophone

A career recalled: from the birth of CD, to capturing Bayreuth's Festspielhaus unique sound

Exploring Mozart

Podcasts

Friday, February 18, 2022

| Gramophone

We discuss the composer's extraordinary music, and some of its finest recordings

Video: 'Music Without Borders', with Yo-Yo Ma, Long Yu and Michael Stern

Features

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

| Gramophone

In a fascinating discussion Yo-Yo Ma, Long Yu and Michael Stern reflect on the meaning of music creation, performance, and listening

The Tallis Scholars go surround

Classical Music News

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

| Gramophone

A classic album is remastered with Dolby Atmos for Spatial Audio

Icon: Carlos Kleiber

Features

Friday, March 4, 2022

| Gramophone

David Patrick Stearns offers a profile of Carlos Kleiber, a complex, fascinating conductor and an often prickly character under whose guidance even the greatest of artists would surpass themselves