The Best Classical Music Albums of 2024
All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended. If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further
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Editor's Choice: December 2024 | The best new classical recordings
Featuring outstanding new releases from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, Xiayin Wang, James Ehnes, Jean-Guihen Queyras and more
Critics’ Choice 2024: our favourite classical recordings of the year
Gramophone’s writers look back over an impressive year for the recording industry and select their favourite albums
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Conductor William Christie: An 80th birthday conversation
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Rob Cowan on George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra Beethoven symphonies
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Benjamin Nicholas on Gabriel Jackson's The Christmas Story
The conductor discusses Merton College, Oxford's recording of a major new commission
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'All we get is life' is a century-hopping exploration of two composers whose musical ideas have many things in common
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Editor's Choice
The Best Classical Music Albums of 2024
All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended. If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further
Editor's Choice: December 2024 | The best new classical recordings
Featuring outstanding new releases from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, Xiayin Wang, James Ehnes, Jean-Guihen Queyras and more
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
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Gramophone Presents … My Classical Music
Your favourite stars on the composers, artists and albums they love
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Gramophone Presents ... Mahler
Our special edition reproduces the most significant articles about his music from our archives
Gramophone Presents ... Mozart
Our special edition draws on 99 years of the finest writing about the composer's music
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Looking back, with both gratitude and joy
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the December issue of Gramophone
Bach's St Matthew Passion: the women behind Mendelssohn's revival
As Oxford Philharmonic begins its Bach Mendelssohn festival at the end of this month, Katy Hamilton looks at the women responsible for Mendelssohn's revelatory discovery of the mighty St Matthew...
Pierre Boulez thought that the string quartet was dead. I beg to differ...
It’s heartening to see – some 250 years after Haydn’s first forays – so many composers still writing for string quartet
A month of music with roots in recording
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the November issue of Gramophone
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