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Friday, January 8, 2021

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Beethoven from Krystian Zimerman and Simon Rattle, Bach from Piotr Anderszewski, Behzod Abduraimov plays Debussy, and we've opera arias from Linda Richardson, Nathalie Stutzmann and Hera Hyesang Park. Plus pre-release tracks from Benjamin Grosvenor and Daniel Hope

Industry reacts with anger to claim that government 'rejected offer' for visa-free EU access for musicians

Monday, January 11, 2021

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Artists and organisations call for urgent clarification - and resolution

Naxos joins NomadPlay’s digital catalogue

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

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Musicians of all standards can now perform alongside Naxos artists

The best new classical albums: Editor's Choice, February 2021

Friday, January 22, 2021

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A staggering new recording of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1 and Symphonic Dances from The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the Recording of the Month in the February, alongside a host of outstanding Editor's Choice albums

The Listening Room (22.01.21)

Friday, January 22, 2021

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Prokofiev from Nicholas Angelich, Andres Romberg from Chouchane Siranossian, Daniel Hope's Schnittke, Hilary Hahn with Prokofiev and Pelham Humfrey from the Choir of the Chapel Royal

'LIVE from London' returns with a spring festival

Friday, February 5, 2021

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Watch an exclusive VOCES8 performance taken from the opening concert

Rising from the ashes of war

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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Janusz Wawrowski recreates Ludomir Różycki’s Violin Concerto

Continuo Foundation announces first grant recipients

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

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New charity gives £150,000 to 23 UK period ensembles, creating work for 300 freelancers

A King Lear with musical difference

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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The Grange Festival to stage Shakespeare with a cast of (speaking) singers

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums

Friday, April 16, 2021

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Including Vaughan Williams symphonies, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, songs by Wagner, Pfitzner and Strauss, and Freddie De Tommaso's Decca debut

Thomas Dunford signs to Warner Classics

Monday, April 26, 2021

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French lutenist begins exclusive agreement with an album with his Jupiter ensemble

The Listening Room (2/5/21)

Sunday, May 2, 2021

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Some of the most ear-catching recent releases – including Joby Talbot from Miloš, Tchaikovsky from Paavo Järvi, and Ysaÿe played by James Ehnes – and a tribute to the late and great Christa Ludwig

Stewart Copeland | My Music: ‘You must open your mind – and listening to eclectic music helps me do that’

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

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The co-founder and drummer of The Police on taming the ‘complicated beast’ that is the orchestra

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums

Thursday, May 6, 2021

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Beethoven's Violin Concerto from Vadim Gluzman, Brahms by Julian Bliss, Mozart's concert arias starring Lisette Oropesa, a melancholy recital from Jean Rondeau and the powerful orchestral works of Magnus Lindberg

A celebration of Satie

Friday, May 7, 2021

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Peter Dickinson recalls how the French composer's profile increased radically in the 1970s - and the role he played in that

The Listening Room (18/5/21)

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

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Richard Strauss from Bertrand Chamayou and Antonio Pappano, Julian Bliss and James Baillieu play Brahms, Weber from Anna Prohaska and Matthias Kirschnereit and Florence Price from Randall Goosby. Plus pre-release tracks from Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, Daniel Barenboim and Kate Lindsey.

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums (Brahms Symphony No 3, Dvořák 'Dumky' Trio, Duruflé Organ works)

Friday, June 11, 2021

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Introducing new recordings from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Barnabás Kelemen, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich, Gothic Voices, Thomas Trotter and Andrew Von Oeyen

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: July 2021

Friday, June 11, 2021

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Editor Martin Cullingford introduces outstanding new recordings of Brahms’s Piano Concertos, Bach’s Orchestral Suites, Mozart’s Serenades, Duruflé’s Organ Works and more

Video: Mozart Momentum with Leif Ove Andsnes

Thursday, June 17, 2021

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Introducing the first two episodes in a new series in which Leif Ove Andsnes explores the life of Mozart in two remarkably creative years

Composer Louis Andriessen has died, aged 82

Thursday, July 1, 2021

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Born June 6, 1939; died July 1, 2021

Angela Hewitt on her new album, Love Songs

Podcasts

Friday, July 2, 2021

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The pianist explores her latest release on Hyperion Records

The Listening Room: Episode 114 (25.07.21)

Sunday, July 25, 2021

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Nicola Benedetti plays Vivaldi, Long Yu conducts Xiaogang Ye's response to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Yeol Eum Son plays Kapustin, and William Christie and Théotime Langlois de Swarte play a violin sonata by Leclair

Berliner Philharmoniker | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2021 Nominee

Monday, July 26, 2021

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The recordings that have emerged from Berlin with Kirill Petrenko on the podium – crucially all live – have set pulses racing

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums