What does it mean to be a conductor?

• Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Gramophone's Editor introduces the new issue of the magazine

Our orchestras' marketing teams deserve respect not derision

• Richard Bratby
• Friday, February 28, 2020

'They’re doing what they do, the way they do it, for a good reason – and while a certain amount of online abuse comes with the territory, the cumulative effect can (and does) damage the psychological...

'Since the sad demise of most of our record shops, the way we both programme and market recordings has changed'

• Carolyn Sampson
• Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The concept album has come of age, says soprano Carolyn Sampson

Why we are bringing Strauss's Elektra out of the opera house

• Kirill Karabits
• Friday, February 21, 2020

Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits, is bringing Richard Strauss's Elektra to concert halls in Bournemouth and Birmingham

The Listening Room: Episode 91 (17.2.20)

• Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Daniel Hope and friends play Chausson; Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion, Konstantin Lifschitz plays Beethoven and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann, plus taster tracks from...

Brass is back: the re-invention of brass chamber music

• Simon Cox
• Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Simon Cox and Septura are seeking to create a new repertoire for brass chamber ensemble

The Listening Room: Episode 90 (4.2.20)

• Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Mezzo Kate Lindsey sings Haydn, Alexandre Kantorow plays José Serebrier's piano concerto, John Wilson conducts Chabrier, songs from Mary Bevan and Nicholas Phan, and an impressive first encounter with...

The importance of open-minded artists

• Martin Cullingford
• Thursday, January 30, 2020

Today's most fascinating musicians are those forging their own paths

The Listening Room: Episode 89 (21.1.20)

• The Listening Room
• Tuesday, January 21, 2020

James Jolly's fortnightly playlist includes a taster of Víkingur Ólafsson's much-anticipated new album 'Debussy - Rameau', Ruby Hughes singing Rhian Samuel's Clytemnestra, Jean-Philippe Collard in...

How the Scottish landscape inspired 'Airs', a new fusion of music and art

• Mhairi Hall
• Friday, January 17, 2020

Composer Mhairi Hall introduces her special collaboration with landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes

Boris Giltburg: setting out to record – and film – all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas

• Boris Giltburg
• Friday, January 17, 2020

Boris Giltburg has set himself the challenge of undertaking filmed performances of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas this year. Here he introduces the project and gets things underway with the First...

The humanity behind the music-making

• Martin Cullingford
• Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Looking ahead to Beethoven year, and remembering Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury

Recording the choral works of William Mathias

• Graham Walker
• Friday, January 10, 2020

Graham Walker, Director of St John's Voice, St John's College, Cambridge, on the beauty of William Mathias's choral music

Beethoven the Modern

• François-Xavier Roth
• Thursday, January 9, 2020

Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these...

The Listening Room: Episode 88 (7.1.19)

• James Jolly
• Tuesday, January 7, 2020