Gramophone Features

Hymns Ancient and Modern rejected
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Hymns Ancient and Modern rejected

Jeremy Nicholas on the great – but endangered – hymn tradition

Lights! Camera! … Atonality!
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Lights! Camera! … Atonality!

Can the cinema offer a home to music rejected in the concert hall? asks Philip Clark

The new batch of Originals from DG and Decca
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The new batch of Originals from DG and Decca

New reissues from the archives – and the pianists have it

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - the composer, 50 years on
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Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - the composer, 50 years on

We mark the anniversary of the death of one of music's great originals

My Music: Alexandre Desplat
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My Music: Alexandre Desplat

The composer of the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for The King's Speech talks to Gramophone

'Music they heard within themselves'
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'Music they heard within themselves'

Philip Clark explores the link between recording and listening, from Stokowski's dreams to Cage's realisations, and towards 21st-century ideals of immersive listening

Composer Eric Whitacre on why British choirs are best
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Composer Eric Whitacre on why British choirs are best

Tuning, sight-reading, tone and knowledge - the secrets of a glorious tradition

East meets West
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East meets West

Seiji Ozawa curates a festival of Japanese culture in the US