Rebuild it and they will come: visiting San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center
- Friday, February 21, 2025
A return to Southern California finds James Jolly in awe of the $125 million refurbishment of the downtown home of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Features
Record label guide: Signum Records
- Friday, February 21, 2025
In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the origins and history of a popular British company
Explorations: György Ligeti's Lontano
- Friday, February 21, 2025
In the first of a new series exploring the history and recordings of less familiar works, Fabrice Fitch introduces a Modernist masterpiece
Contemporary composer: Charlotte Bray
- Friday, February 21, 2025
Richard Whitehouse introduces the varied output of the strong-voiced, Berlin-based British composer who started writing music in her early twenties
Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (March 2025)
- Friday, February 21, 2025
Andrew Mellor explores a range of web-based operas and concerts
Setting off on a new series of explorations with Gramophone
- Friday, February 21, 2025
Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the March 2025 issue of Gramophone magazine
Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata: inside the score with Tamara Stefanovich
- Friday, February 21, 2025
Tamara Stefanovich talks to Peter Quantrill about the Beethovenian qualities of heroism and resistance in this landmark work of the post-war avant-garde
Classics Reconsidered: Elgar Symphony No 1 (London Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin)
- Friday, February 21, 2025
David Gutman and Andrew Farach-Colton discuss Leonard Slatkin’s 1989 recording of Elgar’s First Symphony with the LPO
Unravelling Maurice Ravel: a portrait of the composer at 150
- Thursday, February 13, 2025
To mark the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, Mark Pullinger conjures a portrait of this multifaceted composer through his exquisitely crafted works
Presenting Glass's piano Etudes in their most authentic form
- Friday, February 7, 2025
Glass's piano Etudes are frequently performed and recorded in a way that isn't true to the score. It's time to return to what was actually written by the composer
The Introduction and Allegro, and the brilliance of Elgar's writing for strings
- Monday, February 3, 2025
With his Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Elgar extended the expressive language of string instruments
Editor's Choice: February 2025 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Featuring outstanding recordings from Sir Simon Rattle, Paavo Järvi, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Calidore Quartet, The Nash Ensemble and more
Alice Sara Ott’s new musical adventure: ‘I really fell in love with the world of John Field’s nocturnes’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Alice Sara Ott has added her own recording to the rather small discography of Field’s nocturnes, creating an album perfectly in keeping with her openness to exploration, finds Jeremy Nicholas
Why do we get nostalgic about hi-fi equipment?
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Are we returning to our old favourites? Or is the trend for nostalgic designs tapping into a desire for the hi-fi of the past?
Timothy Ridout's solo viola journey: ‘The pieces on this album require the most that I can give’
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Timothy Ridout chats with Charlotte Gardner about his new centuries-spanning debut solo album and discusses how he’s going about expanding the viola’s repertoire
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