Editor's Choice: June 2025 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, May 16, 2025
The month we feature new recordings of Strauss's Salome, Shostakovich's piano concertos, CPE Bach's violin sonatas, Elgar's The Kingdom and more
Features
The best online classical concerts and events this month (June 2025)
- Friday, May 16, 2025
Peter Quantrill explores a range of web-based concerts
Elly Ameling at 92: a career in the service of art song
- Friday, May 16, 2025
During a visit to the Leeds Song festival, James Jolly met up with one of his musical heroines, the Dutch soprano Elly Ameling to talk about her distinguished career
Icon: Jiří Bělohlávek
- Friday, May 16, 2025
Gavin Dixon celebrates the achievements of this important Czech conductor who played a large part in bringing lesser-known music of his fellow countrymen to audiences worldwide
Q&A: Sam Jackson introduces the 2025 BBC Proms
- Friday, May 16, 2025
The Controller of BBC Radio 3 and the Proms on this year’s festival
In one ear … and staying there: life with the earbud generation
- Friday, May 16, 2025
From £13.99 bargains to £449 luxury editions, earbuds have become both a lifestyle choice and a cultural flashpoint – raising the question: is private listening more polite than public blasting?
Bojan Čičić maps the fanciful terrain of Biber’s groundbreaking 1681 set of Sonatae violino solo
- Friday, May 16, 2025
As Croatian violinist Bojan Čičić releases a new album of sonatas by Biber, he tells Lindsay Kemp about the profound part this composer’s music has played in his career
Classics Reconsidered: Karajan’s 1981 recording of Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony
- Friday, May 16, 2025
Andrew Farach-Colton and Andrew Mellor return to Karajan’s 1981 recording of Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony, an outlier in the conductor’s extensive discography
William Boyd on writing his first opera libretto: "this tiny spark that ignited over lunch all those years ago has now come to full incandescence"
- Friday, May 16, 2025
The author on the path to writing an opera with Colin Matthews for the Aldeburgh Festival
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
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
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
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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