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Top 10 instrumental Christmas works

Monday, December 19, 2016

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Jeremy Nicholas wishes Gramophone readers a musical, peaceful, joyful – but entirely wordless – Christmas, as he chooses his favourite non-vocal seasonal works

Claudio Abbado – a celebration

Classical Music News

Monday, January 16, 2017

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All this week on the Gramophone website, we offer our guide to Claudio Abbado

A Gramophone conversation with Julius Drake

Classical Music News

Friday, January 20, 2017

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Talking about song, the role of the pianist and curating a new season of Temple Music concerts.

Best new classical albums – February 2017

Features

Friday, January 27, 2017

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The finest recordings from this month's reviews, chosen by Martin Cullingford

Introducing Gramophone's February 2017 issue

Features

Friday, January 27, 2017

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Masterclass: Schubert's Schwanengesang

Features

Monday, January 30, 2017

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Graham Johnson and Thomas Quasthoff lift the lid on Schubert's final songs

The complete guide to Franz Schubert, part one: the symphonies

Features

Thursday, January 30, 2020

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In the first of a three-part series, Michael Quinn talks about Schubert's symphonies to conductors, Sir Colin Davis, Roger Norrington and Frans Briiggen and Schubert scholar Brian Newbould

The art of film music – with John Williams, Alexandre Desplat and Clint Mansell

Features

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

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The great film composers can connect a story with our emotions but to do that, says Charlotte Smith, they embrace the genre as a collaborative art form

Bringing the cinema home: our complete guide to the best home cinema systems

Features

Monday, February 20, 2017

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The latest developments have brought the home viewing experience even closer to going to the cinema, says Andrew Everard – in fact, watching in comfort can be even better

Debate: was Bernard Herrmann a great composer?

Features

Monday, February 20, 2017

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John Amis, Rumon Gamba and Adrian Edwards discuss the legacy of Hitchcock’s favourite musical collaborator

La valse du cinéma

Features

Monday, February 20, 2017

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Les Six, together with Saint-Saëns and Ravel, laid the musical foundations for French cinema, which remains unique to this day, writes Gary Dalkin

Video exclusive: Víkingur Ólafsson plays Philip Glass

Features

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

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Olafsson performs Glass's Etude No 14 from his DG debut album

Introducing Gramophone's March 2017 issue

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Friday, February 24, 2017

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Directing Handel, by Peter Sellars

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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'Handel possessed an outrageous sense of humour and a stunning sense of theatre...'

Historical female composers: a specialist's guide

Features

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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Alexandra Coghlan urges us to talk less and listen more when it comes to considering historical female composers, and in her disc selection she avoids the giants, highlighting instead some lesser-known figures

Emily Dickinson: the poet who offers composers potentially limitless possibilities

Features

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Philip Clark celebrates the American poet who was a kindred spirit of the composers she has inspired

Now is the perfect time to discover the renaissance master Heinrich Isaac

Blogs

Thursday, March 23, 2017

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Unmoved by Bach's St John Passion? Try listening to it in English...

Blogs

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

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The special challenges of recording Walton's Façade

Blogs

Friday, March 31, 2017

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Reconstructing Bach's Magnificat, with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort

Features

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

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Bach’s initial Christmas Day Vespers as Thomaskantor was an overt display of music-making, with his Magnificat taking pride of place. For the Dunedin Consort’s new recording, John Butt has reconstructed the whole service as Bach might have celebrated it in 1723, writes David Vickers