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Marina Viotti interview: ‘My aim is to try to change the image people have of classical music and opera’

Friday, September 2, 2022

| Opera Now

Marina Viotti is a remarkable artist, with a fine, flexible, natural mezzo soprano voice that encompasses opera, jazz and metal. Having rediscovered her roots as a classical musician, she is taking the opera world by storm

In memoriam: Barry Humphries

News

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Barry Humphries was undeniably an opera lover of devotion and authenticity

A welcome from Opera Now

News

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

| Opera Now

Gramophone's sister title explores today's evolving opera world

Massenet: Werther at Royal Opera House | Live Review

Review

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

| Opera Now

No real pain, just generalised anguish in Kaufmann's interpretation of Massenet's infamous protagonist

Mozart: The Piano Sonatas on Mozart’s fortepiano (Robert Levin)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Levin makes imaginative educated guesses based on decades of study

Rachmaninov & Brahms (Yuja Wang, Andreas Ottensamer, Gautier Capuçon)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Cool efficiency is assured; their collective skills readily overcome tricky corner

Debussy: Piano Duets (Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Interpretations that relish the music’s sensuously fragile mélodies and other-worldly phrasing

Arens: One Hand Piano 2 - Another 40 Pieces for Left or Right (Edition Breitkopf 9409)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

This collection will be useful for players seeking to build their technique in one hand over the other

Cate Blanchett interview: ‘I learnt the piano as a girl and played with great fervour’

Features

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Director Todd Field's new film TÁR features a pianist turned composer, conductor and writer caught up in intense power struggles. The role is played by Cate Blanchett, who talks to Jonathon Brown

Leading ladies: gender bias in piano competitions

Features

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Almost any piano teacher will say that the majority of their students are female, so where are all the women when it comes to handing out the glittering prizes at major music competitions?

Nelson Freire – Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

'Every one of these recordings is like gold dust'

Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

This is beautiful music, wonderfully recorded

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Delightful discoveries abound. Look no further than the opening track, Blue Blazes by Joseph Tunbridge, one of seven world premiere recordings

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Features

Thursday, March 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

‘The past is another country’ - and so was early music when the Tallis Scholars first assembled to perform it 50 years ago. Founder-director Peter Phillips talks to Clare Stevens about how performing techniques have been honed in the intervening decades, and how Renaissance music has enjoyed its own rebirth

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

His archetypal performance was self-assured, lustrous, multi-hued, inventive, and perceptive

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Paul Hale explores projects from the workshop of J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Photos courtesy of the organ builder

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Conductor, animateur and presenter Lucy Hollins on her musical passions

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

News

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Contemporary music also features in the festival’s programme, with a concert of arrangements for organ and percussion of pieces by rock musician Frank Zappa

Shining a light on a hidden Renaissance gem: Obrecht's Missa Maria zart

Features

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

| Gramophone

Cappella Pratensis have created a unique new manuscript to get even closer to the heart of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart, the longest Renaissance Mass setting

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Ella Marchment's staging of the UK premiere of Libby Larsen's opera was 'exhaustingly alive'

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Classical Music News

Monday, July 10, 2023

| Gramophone

Why the London Philharmonic Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2023 Orchestra of the Year Award

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

Features

Monday, August 21, 2023

| International Piano

Sulamita Aronovsky fled the Soviet Union in 1971 and built a formidable reputation as a teacher in London. Michael Church offers first-hand recollections of this indefatigable and inspirational musician

JS Bach: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Features

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| Gramophone

Every recording of JS Bach's music to have won a Gramophone Award since 1977, featuring outstanding accounts of the St Matthew Passion, Goldberg Variations, Cello Suites and more

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

Features

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| International Piano

Charles Timbrell explores the history on record of one of Chopin’s late masterpieces and recommends some listening

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Opinion

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Life beyond the country house – one summer weekend in the broadsheets crystallises the stark crossroads facing British opera

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Marina Viotti interview: ‘My aim is to try to change the image people have of classical music and opera’

In memoriam: Barry Humphries

A welcome from Opera Now

Massenet: Werther at Royal Opera House | Live Review

Mozart: The Piano Sonatas on Mozart’s fortepiano (Robert Levin)

Rachmaninov & Brahms (Yuja Wang, Andreas Ottensamer, Gautier Capuçon)

Debussy: Piano Duets (Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier)

Arens: One Hand Piano 2 - Another 40 Pieces for Left or Right (Edition Breitkopf 9409)

Cate Blanchett interview: ‘I learnt the piano as a girl and played with great fervour’

Leading ladies: gender bias in piano competitions

Nelson Freire – Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

Shining a light on a hidden Renaissance gem: Obrecht's Missa Maria zart

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 Nominee

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

JS Bach: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

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