10 Nov 2022 Available for 29 days Click HERE to Listen Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there’s Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus […]
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Rupert Christiansen recalls a memorable encounter with celebrated conductor Sir Georg Solti. MORE
They report: Kopatchinskaja, Currentzis and others take pieces from the past, and make them modern In his feature about Patricia Kopatchinskaja in the new issue of Gramophone, Andrew Mellor recalls her appearance at the Gramophone Awards in 2012. There have been many memorable performances at our annual event, but this is one that seems to get […]
First published in 2012 Professor Armand Leroi from Imperial College London explains why he thinks a Darwinian computer program that can evolve music from noise could kill off the composer. You might think that creating the perfect piece of music – whether it’s a classical great, jazz masterpiece or pop hit – is all down […]
A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped the nobiliary ‘von’ when Austria became a republic after the First World War), it was while he was a student at the University of Vienna that he was […]
Philip Clark meets the Canadian pianist at her home in north London to journey into the much misunderstood musical maze that is Bach’s The Art of Fugue Continues HERE
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Celebrate this year’s best recordings with Gramophone’s Awards issue! With this special offer, we’ll send you a category-winning album from this year’s Gramophone Awards when you purchase an annual subscription. Choose from: Recording of the Year (DVD): Korngold, Die tote Stadt / Kirill Petrenko, Bayerische Staatsoper (BSO Recordings) Piano category winner (CD): Beethoven, Diabelli Variations / Mitsuko Uchida (Decca) Instrumental category winner (CD): Ysaÿe, Sonatas for Solo Violin […]
Video of the Day brings an excerpt of the live performance of Puccini’s opera La Bohème, performed in its entirety by violinist Mathieu van Bellen and pianist Mathias Halvorsen from the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Arranged by the musicians themselves, the work brings together the parts of the soloists, the choir and the orchestra into a virtuosic piece for just […]
If you’ve ever travelled abroad, you’ll know what it is to be an ‘alien’ I’ve never really labelled myself as one during my life on the road as a performing artist, but believe me, I’ve felt like an alien more times than I can count. Scratching my head about the food, the transport, the […]
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Originally published 2014 Music lessons will be dominated by “dead white Germans” as a result of the Government’s planned exam reforms, musicians have claimed. Plans for the future of both GCSE and A-level music exams have singled out Western classical music between 1700 and 1900 as the only compulsory area of study – prompting complaints […]
‘The finest hallmark of a great label is its relationships with its artists, in which unfailing support is rewarded by life-enhancing performances. Chandos Records exemplifies exactly this. The past year’s diverse riches include Imogen Cooper’s deeply personal recital “…Le temps perdu…”, benchmark-setting Mendelssohn from the Doric Quartet, the sonic splendour of St Paul’s cathedrals organ […]
Patrick Sawer writes: One of Britain’s most distinguished singers has accused fellow devotees of Richard Wagner of repeated attempts to undermine her position and “rewrite history”. Dame Gwyneth Jones has spoken out for the first time about the long running feud which has riven the Wagner Society, of which she has been president for nearly […]
The Gramophone guide to the finest Schubert recordings available Continues HERE
Classical pianist and Young Steinway Artist Haley Myles is releasing her second album, dedicated to Chopin’s Nocturnes. Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic that was prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her Steinway and Sons M at her home in Lyon, France. ‘The Complete Nocturnes’ is a natural extension of […]
One day, Bryn Terfel’s eldest son fell asleep at the opera. It was during the first act of Welsh National Opera’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Cardiff. Only when his father came on and started singing as Hans Sachs, did he awaken. “My first line woke him up. He apparently […]
This week’s Podcast guest is pianist Angela Hewitt, who tells Editor Martin Cullingford about her beautiful new album ‘Love Songs’, transcriptions of songs by composers including Schumann, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Gluck, Grieg and De Falla – with arrangements by pianists and composers including Liszt, Godowsky, Grainger and Hewitt herself. The album is out today on […]
Suzy Klein finds out – by making a record just as Elgar had done it I’ve loved exploring the last 100 years of music-making in Britain as we’ve recorded Our Classical Century. For this project we wanted to tell a story through our encounters with classical – both public and private – which brought into […]