Matthew Sharp’s CoronAdventure Year

Blogs
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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The British cellist follows up from his blog last year, explaining how his desire to keep classical music alive during the pandemic has taken him to France for some wide-ranging artistic projects

Blurring the boundary between classical music and jazz

Blogs
Friday, April 16, 2021
| Gramophone

Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, 'Gershwinicity', is released on the Somm label

Why Thomas de Hartmann?

Blogs
Thursday, April 1, 2021
| Gramophone

Elan Sicroff shines a light on an unfairly neglected composer as a new series of recordings is released on the Nimbus label

COVID and the performing artist: Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Blogs
Monday, March 22, 2021
| Gramophone

From recitals in the woods to making innovative films, the violinist on lockdown music-making

'The beauty of variations lies in the way composers are forced to respond to limitation'

Blogs
Friday, March 5, 2021
| Gramophone

Clare Hammond introduces her new album of piano variations from the 20th and 21st centuries

Mozart versus Salieri: two early operas show just how talented both composers were

Blogs
Monday, February 15, 2021
| Gramophone

Christophe Rousset compares two early works composed in 1771, recently recorded with Les Talens Lyriques

Hidden Treasure - Hans Gál’s Unpublished Lieder

Blogs
Friday, February 5, 2021
| Gramophone

A story of discovery, family and a box of pralines, by Christian Immler

The art of arranging in the age of Covid

Blogs
Friday, February 5, 2021
| Gramophone

Kenneth Woods introduces his new album 'Visions of Childhood', for which he has made new arrangements of music by Wagner, Mahler and Schubert

Saving a Stephen Dodgson opera from oblivion

Blogs
Friday, January 29, 2021
| Gramophone

Julian Perkins reveals how the new recording of Dodgson's 'Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart' came about

Realising the full vision of Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy

Blogs
Monday, December 7, 2020
| Gramophone

Nearly 30 years ago, I promised myself that this rare treasure would and must be shared with the entire music world – and now it can be

Why we recorded Copland's Appalachian Spring for Help Musicians

Blogs
Monday, November 30, 2020
| Gramophone

We were all itching to make music again, with real people, in a real concert hall!

That Time I Decided to Quarantine With a Pianist

Blogs
Thursday, November 26, 2020
| Gramophone

Katharine Dain reflects on one positive consequence of life in lockdown: 'Our best work needs slowness, space to ask questions and wait for answers, and patience with our brains and bodies as they adapt to new information'

Choral singing in the time of Covid

Blogs
Thursday, November 19, 2020
| Gramophone

Director of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme Thomas Leech reflects on their Royal Philharmonic Society Inspiration Award and their work during lockdown

Why a complete survey of Dyson’s piano works is long overdue

Blogs
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
| Gramophone

‘While Dyson is clearly at home writing light-hearted, easy-to-approach music, he certainly does not shy away from more complex musical language’

Colin Currie introduces Kalevi Aho's Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra, 'Sieidi'

Blogs
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
| Gramophone

‘Part of this composer’s mastery is the structural backbone to all his music, and the architectural conceit of this piece is frankly fantastic’

The joy of rediscovering music long forgotten

Blogs
Thursday, September 17, 2020
| Gramophone

First recordings of flute chamber music by Anton Franz Hoffmeister

Why I refuse to accept the current state of (non) play

Blogs
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
| Gramophone

Jamie Walton, cellist and Founder and Curator of the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival on how live concerts must not be allowed to fade away: 'We seem to be living in some kind of paralysed state, whilst the rest of Europe creatively wakes up'

7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm

Blogs
Friday, July 24, 2020
| Gramophone

Maria Marchant introduces her novel live-streamed concert series, featuring new works written for the piano, premiered every Monday

Resurrecting Howells's extraordinary piano works

Blogs
Friday, July 10, 2020
| Gramophone

Pianist Matthew Schellhorn's new recording of unknown piano works by Herbert Howells – released today – has been a voyage of discovery not unlike that of premiering brand new music

Recording Bach's Three-Part Inventions at home

Blogs
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
| Gramophone

Boris Giltburg reflects on the process of playing and recording Bach's Three-Part Inventions alone, at home. Plus, enjoy the full video of the performances...