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  • Alison Balsom: music for natural trumpet

    Alison Balsom: music for natural trumpet

  • Beatrice Rana interview: ‘Music is very subjective; opinions are very subjective. But this is brought to the extreme in competitions’

    Beatrice Rana interview: ‘Music is very subjective; opinions are very subjective. But this is brought to the extreme in competitions’

  • Introducing Gramophone’s December 2019 issue

    Introducing Gramophone’s December 2019 issue

  • Olari Elts to take over Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Olari Elts to take over Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Features

Video: 10 Great Pianists Of The 20th Century

Video: 10 Great Pianists Of The 20th Century

Rob Cowan offers a personal guide to some his favourite pianists on record

Beatrice Rana interview: ‘Music is very subjective; opinions are very subjective. But this is brought to the extreme in competitions’

Beatrice Rana interview: ‘Music is very subjective; opinions are very subjective. But this is brought to the extreme in competitions’

For the remarkably focused yet perfectly ‘normal’ Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, music programmes are journeys. She tells Hugo Shirley about following the path of Ravel and Stravinsky

Editor's Choice – the best new classical albums: December 2019

Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

Mariss Jansons: the last Gramophone interview

Mariss Jansons: the last Gramophone interview

As a tribute to Mariss Jansons, who has died at the age of 76, we reprint our final interview with him, published in February last year

Blogs & The Listening Room

Christopher Gunning
5th Dec 2019

If you want to write symphonies, my advice is to get on and do it!

Composer Christopher Gunning explores the difficulties of moving from composing for film and TV to writing concert music

Martin Cullingford
4th Dec 2019

Music connects us to the past and the future

Gramophone's Editor introduces the December issue

The Listening Room
4th Dec 2019

The Listening Room: Episode 86 (04.12.19)

Michael McManus
3rd Dec 2019

Mariss Jansons – as I knew him

‘As I write, I am still shocked and shaken that so potent a musical voice has been stilled, to my mind, well before its time’

The Gramophone Podcast

Alison Balsom: music for natural trumpet

Alison Balsom: music for natural trumpet

The virtuoso trumpeter on her new album of baroque music

New Podcast: Stile Antico on music for a Spanish Christmas

Stile Antico on music for a Spanish Christmas

The vocal ensemble discuss their new Harmonia Mundi album

New podcast: pianist and teacher Norma Fisher

Norma Fisher: a life in music

The pianist and teacher talks about Volume 2 of her BBC recordings

Maxim Emelyanychev on Schubert and the Scottish CO

Maxim Emelyanychev on Schubert and the Scottish CO

We caught up with the Russian conductor and keyboard player to find out what makes him tick

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