An opera composer asks: who am I writing for?
- Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Composer Will Todd talks about writing the opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ahead of a performance at If Opera
Blogs
How composers find musical inspiration in real life stories
- Friday, July 21, 2023
Penelope Thwaites reflects on how the stories of real people inspire and motivate her compositional process
The special appeal of historic recordings
- Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Rob Cowan's Replay column, which celebrates the best of recent reissues, has now been a crucial part of Gramophone for 30 years
From Handel and Hendrix to Joseph Bologne, the power of context in appreciating music
- Saturday, June 17, 2023
Understanding history can add much to the impact of composers and their works
An inspiring musical offering to an often under-served minority
- Monday, June 12, 2023
David Fray’s L’Offrande Musicale festival brings world class music-making to hundreds of disabled people, and the result is magnificent and moving
What lies ahead for classical recording?
- Monday, May 15, 2023
‘High costs and a vast catalogue concentrate the mind, and the result is release schedules full of purpose and creativity’
The beauty of Beethoven's symphonies arranged for piano duet
- Friday, April 21, 2023
Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman make the case for exploring Beethoven's symphonies in their piano duet arrangements by Xaver Scharwenka
Keep raising your voices for classical music!
- Friday, April 14, 2023
Making a video, sharing speeches, signing petitions: it all makes a difference
Remembering Denis Stevens
- Monday, March 20, 2023
The early music pioneer and prolific record-maker's centenary fell last year – but why aren't more of his albums available?
Celebrating a century of Gramophone
- Friday, March 17, 2023
Gramophone's Editor introduces a special anniversary edition of the magazine
The power of Schubert’s Fantasie
- Friday, March 10, 2023
The extraordinary work holds a particularly personal power for Stella Chen - so how did early critics get it so wrong?
Celebrations, but warnings about funding, set the tone at the RPS Awards
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
Chairman John Gilhooly uses occasion to send a message to government
The magic of Mozart – for young and old alike
- Friday, February 24, 2023
A schools’ matinee at Covent Garden wonderfully demonstrates why opera is worth fighting for
A major new star-studded studio opera recording? That's worth celebrating
- Monday, January 30, 2023
Gramophone goes behind the scenes as Sir Antonio Pappano and his hand-picked soloists record Turandot
The power of collaborative commissioning
- Thursday, January 19, 2023
Hanna Grzeskiewicz of the Hermes Experiment questions how new music can be powerfully conveyed through a more collaborative commissioning process
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