Gramophone Classical Festival Guide 2025
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Kick off your worldwide festival-going adventures this year by perusing our guide – you’re bound to spot something that piques your interest
Features
Monsters, music, and the mind of a king: Oliver Cotton on classical music and The Score
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
The actor and playwright on imagining Bach for the stage, on learning classical guitar, and the vital importance of listening
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
Streaming spotlight: Ravel revelations, Onegin reimagined, and a Salome to shock
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Bertrand Chamayou’s masterful Ravel, a searing Eugene Onegin from Madrid, and Strauss’s Salome in high-octane mode — the month’s must-watch performances online
Classics reconsidered: Leonard Bernstein’s 1984 DG recording of West Side Story
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Edward Seckerson and Edward Breen return to Leonard Bernstein’s 1984 DG recording of West Side Story
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1981
- Friday, April 11, 2025
All of the winners of the 1981 edition of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, headlined by a Recording of the Year Award for Karajan's Parsifal
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Paradise Lost[?] in Wrocław
- Thursday, April 3, 2025
Wratislavia Cantans marks its 60th anniversary with the question ‘Paradise Lost [?]’ – ten days of music, premieres, and philosophical reflection on humanity’s capacity for both ruin and redemption
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1980
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
A look back at the winning recordings of the 1980 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. featuring Charles Mackerras, Trevor Pinnock, Bernard Haitink and Krystian Zimerman
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1979
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The 1979 Gramophone Awards recognised recordings from the Beaux Arts Trio, Maurizio Pollini, Teresa Stratas, Elisabeth Söderström and André Previn
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1978
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Looking back at the winning recordings of the 1978 Gramophone Awards, featuring Janet Baker, Simon Rattle, Alfred Brendel, Plácido Domingo and more
10 operatic hidden gems you've probably never heard of
- Monday, March 24, 2025
From biblical floods and medieval sieges to a peasant girl wandering the hills of Northern France with a goat, Opera Rara's Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi shines a spotlight on lesser-known works by 19th and 20th century operatic masters
Setting sail into Verdi: Opera Rara and the 1857 Simon Boccanegra
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Mark Pullinger meets Opera Rara’s Henry Little and Roger Parker to discover why they’ve studio-recorded a rare version of the Verdi, and hears from two of the young singers involved
Vivaldi's Gloria: a guide to the greatest recordings
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Vivaldi’s Gloria, RV589, has long been a favourite of choral societies and a fixture on recordings. Lindsay Kemp traces the work’s re-emergence following two centuries of neglect
The best online classical concerts and events this month (April 2025)
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts
How to make the most of your speakers
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Changing loudspeakers will always alter the sound of your hi-fi system, but you can often achieve as much by optimising the set-up of the speakers you already have
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