The best online classical concerts and events this month (April 2025)
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts
Features
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
Visiting Gustav Mahler’s spiritual home: Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw
- Friday, March 21, 2025
With Amsterdam’s Mahler Festival 2025 coming up, James Jolly reports from the Concertgebouw, and finds out about the city’s long association with the composer
Contemporary composer: Ole Buck
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Andrew Mellor directs our attention towards one of Scandinavia’s most stringent and spiritual minimalists
Record label guide: Ricercar
- Friday, March 21, 2025
In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry considers a Belgian company with a strong sense of identity
Bach’s Mass in B minor: inside the score, with Raphaël Pichon
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Raphaël Pichon shares with Mark Seow his vision of a work both shocking and beautiful: Bach’s Mass in B minor
Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor: a guide to the best recordings
- Friday, March 21, 2025
In our latest introduction to the history and recordings of a less familiar work, David Threasher explores a choral gem that remains off many people’s radar: Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor
Meeting Jonathan Tetelman – a tenor for our times
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Midway through a week recording Tosca in Rome for DG, Jonathan Tetelman takes time out to tell Martin Cullingford about the experience, his past, his plans – and why recordings are so important
Nina Sosanya on the music in her life: 'It always does tend to be grand and sweeping, encompassing sounds that stir me'
- Friday, March 21, 2025
The actor on the place of music in her childhood, and on learning to play Handel on the piano convincingly
The life and recordings of viola player Lionel Tertis: 'a diminutive, single-minded, cantankerous man'
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Tully Potter celebrates the Englishman who helped raise the status of the viola in both solo and group settings, and gave life to significant new repertoire for the instrument
Classics Reconsidered: Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2 (Fleisher/Szell)
- Friday, March 21, 2025
Rob Cowan and Jeremy Nicholas compare notes on Leon Fleisher’s 1962 recording of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto conducted by George Szell
Editor's Choice: April 2025 | The best new classical recordings
- Friday, March 21, 2025
This month we feature outstanding new accounts of Puccini's Tosca, Weinberg's The Passenger, Machaut's. songs, Walton's Violin Concerto and much more
10 pieces comissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society
- Friday, March 21, 2025
To mark the 200th anniversary of the UK premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, we chart some of the greatest works commissioned by the RPS from its inception in 1813 to today
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1977
- Thursday, March 20, 2025
All of the winning recordings from the inaugural Gramophone Awards, featuring Alfred Brendel, Felicity Lott, Charles Mackerras, Pierre Boulez and the Fitzwilliam Quartet
Watch: An introduction to Malcolm Arnold
- Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Conductor Michael Waldron talks to Arnold specialist George Hall on the music of the often-overlooked British 20th century composer
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