Editor's Choice: December 2024 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Featuring outstanding new releases from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, Xiayin Wang, James Ehnes, Jean-Guihen Queyras and more
Features
Critics’ Choice 2024: our favourite classical recordings of the year
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Gramophone’s writers look back over an impressive year for the recording industry and select their favourite albums
Kathryn Stott and Yo-Yo Ma interview: ‘We’re free to explore in the same moment, and we take risks – but it’s all genuine’
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Kathryn Stott’s retirement brings to a close a four-decade-long duo partnership with Yo-Yo Ma, one filled with fun and adventure, as they tell Richard Bratby
Gabriel Fauré: beyond reality
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Fauré’s most famous works are rightly revered, but as we mark the centenary of the composer’s death, Tim Ashley encourages us also to look beyond these to discover a more complex and richly rewarding legacy
Jon Batiste interview: ‘This is a journey with music, from a very eclectic community, with great mentorship’
- Friday, November 29, 2024
The multi Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste on the journey behind his latest album reimagining Beethoven’s music
Hyperion Records: a guide to the great British record label
- Friday, November 29, 2024
In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the history and varied output of a much-loved British company
Looking back, with both gratitude and joy
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the December issue of Gramophone
Music Competitions Guide 2024
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Our annual guide presents the best competitions across the UK, Europe, the US and beyond – many of which offer an early platform for major emerging talent
Puccini: the great melodist
- Friday, November 29, 2024
November 29 marks 100 years since the death of Puccini – to explore his art in detail, Jack Pepper talks to three leading performers of his music
Nash Ensemble: 60 years – and counting
- Friday, November 29, 2024
As the Nash Ensemble celebrates its 60th birthday James Jolly went to meet Amelia Freedman, its founder and Artistic Director for those six decades
Inside Schubert’s Four Impromptus, D935, with Aimi Kobayashi
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Tim Parry talks to Aimi Kobayashi about late Schubert and the pressure of expectations
Classics Reconsidered: Furtwängler’s pioneering 1944 recording of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Peter Quantrill and Christian Hoskins return to Wilhelm Furtwängler’s pioneering 1944 recording of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
DALI: ‘The unpredictability should be in the music, not in the speaker’
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Andrew Everard relishes some plain speaking on a visit to loudspeaker company DALI in Denmark
Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 9: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, November 29, 2024
RVW’s final symphony took time to become established following its composer’s death. Geraint Lewis charts its emergence on recordings as a summative, valedictory work of uncommon power
The Best of the Latest Headphones
- Friday, November 29, 2024
Whatever your budget it’s possible to buy an excellent pair of headphones, whether made by a dedicated manufacturer, or one of the world’s big loudspeaker names
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