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Thursday, April 3, 2025

| Opera Now

Guy Verrall-Withers will take up the role of Director of Audiences and Impact at the Hampshire-based opera festival

Video of the Day: James Ehnes performs Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

| Gramophone

The performance is from Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2024 Summer Festival

Jessica Duchen on the life of pianist Myra Hess

Podcasts

Friday, April 4, 2025

| Gramophone

The author discusses her new biography about the life of pianist Myra Hess

Video of the Day: Ariel Quartet perform the second movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet No.1

Saturday, March 22, 2025

| Gramophone

This performance video is the second single released as a part of their larger Beethoven project

Sheku Kanneh-Mason interview: ‘It’s so incredibly important to have music that documents our own time’

Thursday, April 17, 2025

| Gramophone

Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s new album marks a return to Shostakovich, with his Second Cello Concerto alongside other works connected with Rostropovich. He chats with Andrew Farach-Colton

Vladimir Sofronitsky: the elusive pianist on record

Thursday, April 17, 2025

| Gramophone

Tim Parry reflects on the life and pianism of one of the greatest of all Soviet pianists, whose stature is at last recognised beyond his own country

Top 5 classical releases you need to hear this week – featuring Yuja Wang, Malin Byström & Sir Simon Rattle

Classical Music News

Friday, May 2, 2025

| Gramophone

This week we feature exciting new accounts of Richard Strauss's Salome, Shostakovich's Piano Concertos, Janáček's Jenůfa and Bruckner's Symphony No 9

Voice for change | Interview with Brindley Sherratt

Thursday, April 24, 2025

| Opera Now

Bass Brindley Sherratt speaks about his gala at The Grange, fundraising for the Meath Epilepsy Charity – the specialist care home that transformed life for his daughter, Amy, who lives with complex epilepsy

The five unmissable new classical recordings this week, featuring Lise Davidsen, Alan Gilbert & Margaret Fingerhut

Classical Music News

Friday, April 18, 2025

| Gramophone

This week sees new recordings of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Ravel's songs, Brahms's Symphony No 3, 'Ukraine - A Piano Portrait', and Maurice Greene's Jephtha

Mozart: Don Giovanni/Requiem | Komische Oper Berlin

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

| Opera Now

Serebrennikov’s production offers a purgatorial journey rich in symbolism and trickster energy, blending Don Giovanni’s downfall with the transcendent strains of Mozart’s Requiem

Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol 7

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Fluency of line is a commendable characteristic of Suzuki’s playing, with very relaxed tempi in the Leipzig chorales

Wisdom & Strength

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

The evident pleasure they derive from recent music radiates in the warmth of the voices and tender phrasing, with forthright, exciting sonorities as required

Benedict Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Prepare to be moved, shaken, stirred by this tremendous tribute to the fallen and to Ukraine’s precious cultural diversity and perilous situation

Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’

'I think we can do better' | Mental Health Awareness Month - Samuel Mariño

Sunday, May 18, 2025

| Opera Now

The Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño shares his personal experience with mental health and how the music industry should be supporting vulnerable artists

Ravel ‘Complete Works for Solo Piano’

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'He tints sound like a painter might harmonise pigment'

Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'As much a prayer as it is music, embodying a timeless message of compassion and transcendence'

Bach: Keyboard Concerti

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'The interpretations are characterised by a sense of freshness, with energy in the outer movements and soul in the inner ones, ornamentation absolutely integral to the line, and a relishing of the possibilities of her Steinway'

Inaugural SXSW London to feature classical strand

Classical Music News

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

Europe debut for famed festival of tech, film, music, education, and culture takes place in Shoreditch, June 2-7

Newly discovered Chopin waltz published in urtext edition following discovery at Morgan Library

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

| Gramophone

Previously unknown work by Chopin, composed around 1830, is now published by G Henle Verlag and featured in a major New York exhibition, with a premiere recording by Lang Lang

Love Divine: Renaissance & Contemporary Choral Works

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

A seemingly quixotic programme becomes a genuine triumph, thanks to luminatus's clarity, balance, and inspired repertoire choices

Georg Österreich’s Resurrected Treasures: North German Cantatas Around 1700

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Full marks for commitment, but the real interest here is historical – a rare glimpse into pre-Bach sacred music

A century at the keyboard | The Curtis Institute at 100