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Gramophone Editor’s Choice: January 2022 | The best new classical recordings

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

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The best new classical recordings reviewed in the January 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Lise Davidsen & Leif Ove Andsnes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Sol Gabetta, Cecilia Bartoli and more...

Calling all young classical writers!

Classical Music News

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

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The RPS launches this year’s edition of the Young Classical Writers Prize

After Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata, which music should you explore?

Features

Friday, January 21, 2022

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Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? We suggest some musical journeys that venture beyond the most familiar works, with some recommended versions. Geraint Lewis’s point of departure is Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata

Video of the Day: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Manchester Camerata)

Features

Thursday, January 20, 2022

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Manchester Camerata and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet give a wonderful performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9

Gramophone Podcast: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 5

Podcasts

Friday, January 21, 2022

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Celebrating the transformative effect of a major new concert hall with its General Artistic Director Christoph Lieben-Seutter and the Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert

Introducing the February 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Joyce DiDonato

Features

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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Joyce Didonato: The mezzo’s mission to help us reconnect with nature - and with ourselves | Schubert’s Winterreise: Benjamin Appl records the powerful song-cycle | Mozart’s Symphony No 40: Which is the best recording of this ever-popular work?

Elsa Dreisig’s fresh new take on Mozart: ‘In this business, these “rules” we have are not actually real. It’s first of all about interpretation’

Features

Thursday, February 10, 2022

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For her new album, French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig has turned on its head every preconception about the characters in Mozart’s operas, portraying credible, sympathetic women who have lived real, often messy lives, discovers Neil Fisher

Icon: Enrico Caruso

Features

Friday, February 11, 2022

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Tully Potter describes the plentiful gifts of this tenor, whom he first encountered as a boy – from an exceptional opulence of tone to vivid acting ability in both comic and tragic roles

BBC Four screens John Bridcut's Winterreise film

Classical Music News

Thursday, February 24, 2022

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Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu perform Schubert's song-cycle in a magnificent Alpine setting

Valery Gergiev's international roles and appearances are being cancelled

Classical Music News

Monday, February 28, 2022

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The conductor and Putin supporter is told to distance himself from Russia's invasion of Ukraine or lose his jobs

Video of the Day: Met Opera performs Ukrainian national anthem

Classical Music News

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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New York company opens Verdi's Don Carlos with powerful show of support

The Listening Room (6.3.22)

Blogs

Sunday, March 6, 2022

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Gramophone's Editor in Chief, James Jolly, picks some of the most ear-catching recent releases and offers a playlist of predominantly complete performances for Episode 123