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'They’re doing what they do, the way they do it, for a good reason – and while a certain amount of online abuse comes with the territory, the cumulative effect can (and does) damage the psychological wellbeing of people who are working hard for the things you care about'

'Since the sad demise of most of our record shops, the way we both programme and market recordings has changed'

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| Gramophone

The concept album has come of age, says soprano Carolyn Sampson

Why we are bringing Strauss's Elektra out of the opera house

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Friday, February 21, 2020

| Gramophone

Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits, is bringing Richard Strauss's Elektra to concert halls in Bournemouth and Birmingham

Brass is back: the re-invention of brass chamber music

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

| Gramophone

Simon Cox and Septura are seeking to create a new repertoire for brass chamber ensemble

How the Scottish landscape inspired 'Airs', a new fusion of music and art

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Friday, January 17, 2020

| Gramophone

Composer Mhairi Hall introduces her special collaboration with landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes

Boris Giltburg: setting out to record – and film – all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas

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Friday, January 17, 2020

| Gramophone

Boris Giltburg has set himself the challenge of undertaking filmed performances of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas this year. Here he introduces the project and gets things underway with the First Sonata

Recording the choral works of William Mathias

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Friday, January 10, 2020

| Gramophone

Graham Walker, Director of St John's Voice, St John's College, Cambridge, on the beauty of William Mathias's choral music

Beethoven the Modern

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Thursday, January 9, 2020

| Gramophone

Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these concerts – and of the great composer himself – in programming his concert at London’s Southbank Centre on February 21 with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln