Contemporary composer: Gabriel Jackson
- Friday, May 16, 2025
This British composer’s output extends beyond the choral music for which he is best known, as Hattie Butterworth reveals
Features
Cedille Records: a Chicago label with local roots and global reach
- Friday, May 16, 2025
In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the history of a Chicago-based company that champions local musicians
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, May 16, 2025
Tchaikovsky’s card-game opera, based on Pushkin’s haunting novella, has received a range of treatments on stage, on film and in the studio. Mark Pullinger seeks out the ace in the pack
The Gramophone Guide to … Subwoofers
- Friday, May 16, 2025
They are not only for all that crash-bang stuff in big action movies: chosen wisely, and set up correctly, subwoofers can make even more of your music, says Andrew Everard
VE Day 80: a playlist of music to mark the anniversary
- Thursday, May 8, 2025
From composer-soldiers to contemporary writers reflecting on the anniversary, Jack Pepper curates a playlist marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe
Music in wartime – correspondence from the Front: 'Music can bring back the visions of a life worth fighting for'
- Thursday, May 8, 2025
A moving collection of letters written to The Gramophone, chronicling the role of recorded music in the lives of service people during the Second World War
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
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Rising young pianist Alon Kariv on the ‘Israeli piano school’
- Friday, May 2, 2025
Ahead of his performance with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, Kariv discusses the titans who shaped the Israeli piano scene, with James Inverne
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1986
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Claudio Abbado's miraculous account of Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims took the top prize at the 1986 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, but it was one of many benchmark recordings recognised that year
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra to premiere Malek Jandali's Rhapsody
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
'Rhapsody is a vivid dialogue between civilizations,' Jandali explains. 'It celebrates the unity possible through the magic of music – a shared language that transcends borders.'
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1985
- Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Nigel Kennedy's recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the LPO and Vernon Handley won the Recording of the Year in 1985, but it was a vintage year with other prizes for Jorge Bolet, Bernard Haitink, Elisabeth Söderström, Neeme Järvi and more
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1984
- Friday, April 25, 2025
Karajan's live recording of Mahler's Ninth took to top prize – Recording of the Year – at the 1984 Gramophone Classical Music Awards
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1982-83
- Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Among the winning recordings in 1983 were Tippett's Triple Concerto, Bach's Mass in B minor, Boulez's Pli selon pli, and 'A feather on the breath of God'
Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: a century of recordings – from the composer to contemporary mavericks
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Prokofiev’s most popular concerto has inspired a range of interpretations since the composer’s own 1932 recording. David Gutman picks the finest from a burgeoning discography
In the presence of a national treasure: Kurtág’s Játékok through Aimard’s hands
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Pierre-Laurent Aimard has recorded the largest selection yet from György Kurtág’s Játékok, and in the presence of the composer, who recently turned 99. Peter Quantrill attended the sessions in Budapest to discuss the project with the pianist
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