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Friday, January 27, 2023

| Gramophone

The countertenor performs the aria of Mary Magdalene

Puccini’s Turandot: the inside story of a major new studio recording

Monday, March 20, 2023

| Gramophone

A major studio opera recording is rare nowadays, but add in Kaufmann, Radvanovsky and some unusual material and it has all the makings of something unique indeed. Neil Fisher visits Rome to sit in on Pappano’s ‘complete’ Turandot for Warner Classics

The magic of Mozart – for young and old alike

Blogs

Friday, February 24, 2023

| Gramophone

A schools’ matinee at Covent Garden wonderfully demonstrates why opera is worth fighting for

Video of the Day: Duruflé's Requiem by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Gramophone

Filmed in 4K at the Church of St Eustache, Paris, this is a completely absorbing performance of Duruflé's masterpiece

The power of Schubert’s Fantasie

Blogs

Friday, March 10, 2023

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The extraordinary work holds a particularly personal power for Stella Chen - so how did early critics get it so wrong?

The BBC Singers’ closure has been suspended

Friday, March 24, 2023

| Gramophone

BBC to explore 'alternative funding models', while choir to appear at the Proms

Video of the Day: 'Penny Lane' for guitar and string quartet

Friday, April 14, 2023

| Gramophone

William Kanengiser and the Alexander String Quartet play an inventive arrangement of 'Penny Lane' by The Beatles

Video of the Day: VOCES8 perform ‘Sanctus and Osanna’ from Bach's Mass in B minor

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

| Gramophone

Inspirational Bach from VOCES8, featuring Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Brook, Rachel Podger and Barnaby Smith

A celebration of Chinese and British orchestral music with the LPO at Cadogan Hall

Friday, April 7, 2023

| Gramophone

Music can facilitate understanding between cultures like nothing else - we just have to listen, as a concert in London sets out to prove

Editor's Choice: May 2023 | The best new classical recordings

Friday, April 14, 2023

| Gramophone

Compelling Gesualdo Madrigals from Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew, Klaus Mäkelä's Rite of Spring in Paris and Michael Spyres's ‘Contra-Tenor’ are among the best new classical releases this month

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): a guide to the best recordings

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

| Gramophone

The Magic Flute was a welcome operatic success for Mozart during his hectic final year. Richard Wigmore considers ten decades of recordings of this enchanting masterpiece

The Coronation: Royal Music Through Time

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

| Gramophone

Jack Pepper looks ahead to the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. In Part One, he curates a playlist of Royal composers across the centuries…

The Coronation: Military Musicians

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

| Gramophone

Jack Pepper looks ahead to the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. In Part Three, we explore the role of military musicians, taking a deep dive into the world and contribution of the Royal Marines Band Service…

The best new classical albums this week (May 5, 2023)

Friday, May 5, 2023

| Gramophone

Discover new recordings of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Stanford's Requiem and more

How do you write a theme for Succession's Roy family?

Friday, May 12, 2023

| Gramophone

Find out when composer Nicholas Britell joins Apple Music's Classical Connections Radio show tomorrow - and listen to an exclusive clip here!

Joana Mallwitz signs to the Yellow Label

Monday, June 5, 2023

| Gramophone

The German conductor will record Kurt Weill and Haydn for DG

The story of Scipione, told through the London Handel Festival

Monday, June 12, 2023

| Opera Now

Exploring Handel's rarely performed opera through its performance to close the 2023 London Handel Festival

Leading opera figures sign letter regarding future of Welsh National Opera

Friday, June 23, 2023

| Opera Now

The letter comes less than a week after the 40th anniversary of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World

Khachaturian: Piano Concerto (Iyad Sughayer)

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

There is ample glitter in Sughayer’s performance, particularly when heard in BIS’s modern sound

From Afar (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

The whole album has been recorded twice – once on a Steinway grand, then again on a felt-covered upright for greater intimacy and a sense of nostalgia

One-Handed Piano Compositions and Injury Awareness: History, Study of Selected Works and Mindful Practice (Zheni Georgieva Atanasova)

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Atanasova has produced a stimulating, introductory book to important subjects

Returning to the Piano: IV – Touches (Part 2)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

A technical refresher course for recommencing piano enthusiasts, created for International Piano by Murray McLachlan

Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

These are significant pieces, and many suffused with an evanescent charm to which Andsnes does full justice

David Hill in conversation with... Laurence Equilbey (founder-director of Accentus chamber choir)