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Featuring all of this year’s Editor’s Choice albums and Recordings of the Month, plus the winners of the recording categories of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, this is the ultimate guide to the best classical recordings of 2021

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony: A deep dive into the best recordings

Features

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

| Gramophone

Artistic salvation or forced rejoicing? David Gutman investigates Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, his ‘make or break’ response to ‘just criticism’ and the varied recordings it has inspired

Video of the Day: Coco Tomita plays Enescu's Ménétrier

Features

Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Gramophone

Our One to Watch from December plays an advance track from her debut album

Gramophone Presents ... Mozart

Classical Music News

Friday, January 28, 2022

| Gramophone

Our special edition draws on 99 years of the finest writing about the composer's music

Top 10 Amy Beach recordings

Features

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

| Gramophone

A child prodigy, Amy Beach went on to write several works that have been widely performed and recorded, most notably the Piano Quintet and Piano Concerto. Here are 10 of the finest recordings

Barbara Hannigan given LSO role

Classical Music News

Monday, February 21, 2022

| Gramophone

The singer and conductor is named to a new position by the orchestra

Video of the Day: Walton's The Twelve

Classical Music News

Friday, February 25, 2022

| Gramophone

The VOCES8 Foundation Choir, with organist Peter Holder, perform the epic anthem

Netrebko withdraws from forthcoming Met Opera appearances

Classical Music News

Friday, March 4, 2022

| Gramophone

Move comes after soprano failed to repudiate her public support for Putin

Paul Hillier on Jóhann Jóhannsson's Drone Mass

Podcasts

Friday, March 18, 2022

| Gramophone

Theatre of Voices' director on recording a 'contemporary oratorio' by the late Icelandic composer

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Apple Music's spatial audio with Dolby Atmos: what is it and how do you get it?

The life-affirming power of live performance

Sean Shibe on his new album 'Camino'

Don't miss Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Festival

Watch: violinist Francisco Fullana plays Asturias

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021: our sponsors and partners

For young artists, experience is vital - but often difficult to get

Laura van der Heijden signs to Chandos Records

Telling stories: what the RPS winners reveal about musical life today

Live from London Christmas 2021 festival announced

Video of the Day: Apollo5 sing The Owl by Toby Young

Paying appropriate tribute to Bernard Haitink

Let there be light! – Gabrieli Roar's ‘Re-Creation’

Watch Anna Netrebko's new film of Isolde's Liebestod: just released

Listening to stories just as the artist intended

Video of the day: Jonathan Dove's The Three Kings, by The Elora Singers

Recordings of the Year 2021: Special Digital Edition

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony: A deep dive into the best recordings

Video of the Day: Coco Tomita plays Enescu's Ménétrier

Gramophone Presents ... Mozart

Top 10 Amy Beach recordings

Barbara Hannigan given LSO role

Video of the Day: Walton's The Twelve

Netrebko withdraws from forthcoming Met Opera appearances

Paul Hillier on Jóhann Jóhannsson's Drone Mass

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