Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 4: The Quarter-finals begin
- Sunday, May 25, 2025
'Carter Johnson’s jaunty groove in the first movement abounded in playfulness and propulsion'
Blogs
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 3: New Voices and Familiar Faces
- Saturday, May 24, 2025
'Not one note fell under the table, not one phrase emerged without meaning'. Jed Distler finds at least one marvellous set in today's Cliburn Competition Preliminaries
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 2: Playing what they love
- Friday, May 23, 2025
'Not since Alfred Cortot and, more recently, Francesca Libetta have I heard Saint-Säens served up with such boundless imagination and character, not to mention transcendental virtuosity'
Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 1: Off to the races
- Thursday, May 22, 2025
The 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gets underway with performances from Xuanxiang Wu, Carter Johnson, Federico Gad Crema and more
The music my dad left behind: an unexpected journey through grief
- Monday, May 19, 2025
'We were creating a new world together that wasn’t quite the old one, and both Albéniz and my dad had led me there'
Ukraine in music: rediscovering a nation’s voice through the piano
- Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Margaret Fingerhut reflects on heritage, history, and hope in her recital and recording 'Ukraine – A Piano Portrait', featuring works by overlooked Ukrainian composers
Recording’s importance and uniqueness
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Lise Davidsen’s Senta, Sofronitsky’s spontaneity, Karajan live in Berlin – this month’s issue offers powerful reminders of how recordings preserve the unrepeatable
I had to tell my wife I would no longer be able to earn a living as a concert pianist
- Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff on recovering from focal dystonia – a condition renowned for ending performing careers
As two early career female musicians, we felt it was our responsibility to create positive change: the musicians behind EMPOWER
- Friday, March 14, 2025
EMPOWER Women Changing Music is about to host its first event at King's Place. Co-founder Sinead Walsh shares her journey from disillusionment to setting up the successful project celebrating women in...
Why I’m Leaving the UK and moving to Madrid: a reflection on music, opportunities, and the changing landscape for emerging artists
- Thursday, March 13, 2025
'With the already meagre trickle of money to emerging musicians becoming pinched, and many "aging out" of certain schemes before graduating, numerous gifted artists have left the profession entirely'
Beethoven goes manga for 'Beethoven Wars'
- Friday, February 28, 2025
Conductor Laurence Equilbey explains how Beethoven’s King Stephan and Ruins of Athens inspired the first manga opera for the big screen – Beethoven Wars
Calidore String Quartet: how Beethoven's early string quartets brought us together
- Monday, February 24, 2025
The Calidore String Quartet reflect on the importance of Beethoven's quartets in their lives
Setting off on a new series of explorations with Gramophone
- Friday, February 21, 2025
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the March 2025 issue of Gramophone magazine
Presenting Glass's piano Etudes in their most authentic form
- Friday, February 7, 2025
Glass's piano Etudes are frequently performed and recorded in a way that isn't true to the score. It's time to return to what was actually written by the composer
The Introduction and Allegro, and the brilliance of Elgar's writing for strings
- Monday, February 3, 2025
With his Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Elgar extended the expressive language of string instruments
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