Classics Reconsidered: Handel’s Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra / Charles Mackerras)
- Friday, July 12, 2024
Richard Wigmore and Lindsay Kemp assess how Charles Mackerras’s 1966 recording of Messiah stands up more than half a century later
Features
Ondine: a profile of the great Finnish record label
- Friday, July 12, 2024
In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of a highly respected Finnish label based in Helsinki
High End Show 2024: clarifications and mystifications in Munich
- Friday, July 12, 2024
This year’s High End Show, held in Munich’s MOC, provided plenty of food for thought, with innovative demonstrations, unexpected arrivals and the odd head-scratching moment, says Andrew Everard
Beethoven: the best recordings from the past two years
- Wednesday, July 3, 2024
All of these Beethoven recordings were chosen as Editor's Choice or Recording of the Month in Gramophone magazine from 2022 to today
Elena Ruehr: Contemporary Composer
- Tuesday, July 2, 2024
A magisterial series of string quartets forms only one part of this US composer’s multifaceted output, finds Guy Rickards
Video of the Day: James Ross and the Maxwell Quartet perform 'Flow Country'
- Monday, July 1, 2024
Performing Ross's own piece from his new album 'Landscape to Light'
Video of the Day: Les Épopées performs Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo'
- Friday, June 28, 2024
Joined by tenor Julian Prégardien, the french ensemble performs a track from their latest album
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The REMA Awards 2024: winners revealed
- Thursday, June 27, 2024
REMA, the European Early Music Network (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne), exists to celebrate and preserve the music of past masters
Carl Nielsen: Top 20 Recordings
- Monday, June 24, 2024
Featuring outstanding recordings of Nielsen's music by Leonard Bernstein, Vilde Frang, Fabio Luisi, Sharon Bezaly, Johan Dalene and more
César Franck: Top 10 Recordings
- Thursday, June 20, 2024
Ten outstanding recordings of Franck's music, from Marie-Claire Alain, Pierre Monteux, Alina Ibragimova, Stephen Hough and more
CPE Bach: Top 10 Recordings
- Thursday, June 20, 2024
Ten of the best recordings of CPE Bach's music, featuring Emmanuel Pahud, Rachel Podger, Marc-André Hamelin, Trevor Pinnock and more
Robert Schumann: Top 20 Recordings
- Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Twenty great Schumann recordings, featuring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Leif Ove Andsnes, Mitsuko Uchida, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and more
Editor's Choice: July 2024 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, June 14, 2024
Introducing outstanding new albums from Bertrand Chamayou, Laura van der Heijden, Janine Jansen, Takács Quartet, Magdalena Kožená and more
In harmony: meeting The Gesualdo Six
- Friday, June 14, 2024
As The Gesualdo Six marks 10 years with a characteristically imaginative album, Mark Seow encounters an ensemble as close-knit socially as it is musically
Impressions of Schoenberg: celebrating the composer at 150
- Friday, June 14, 2024
How should we view the composer whose music still divides audiences 150 years after his birth? Peter Quantrill and key Schoenberg advocates set his work in the context of his own era, and of ours
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