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Our guide to the most outstanding new classical music albums of 2022. Featuring sensational new versions of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Beethoven's symphonies, Vivaldi's violin concertos and much more

50 of the best classical pianists on record

Features

Monday, January 1, 2024

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An introduction to the greatest classical pianists and their best recordings, featuring Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Igor Levit and Maria João Pires

A new classical music festival lands on Ibiza

Classical Music News

Monday, February 21, 2022

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The team behind the Verbier Festival music to the party island in the Balearics

‘I’m not really interested in superficiality right now, there’s plenty of that’ | Joyce DiDonato’s bold new musical mission

Features

Friday, February 25, 2022

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Joyce DiDonato’s new project asks us to reconnect with the natural world, finds Martin Cullingford – and what better way to do that than simply to stop and listen?

‘Winterreise always gives just tiny hints and it opens your imagination’ | Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu interview

Features

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

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Benjamin Appl has recorded Winterreise twice – once for BBC TV and once for Alpha Classics. James Jolly speaks to him and his pianist James Baillieu about Schubert’s great song-cycle

Top 10 Opera Composers

Features

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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A beginner's guide tracing the extraordinary development of opera from Monteverdi in the 17th century to Saariaho today, via the masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Britten

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: April 2022 | The best new classical recordings

Features

Friday, March 18, 2022

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Featuring outstanding new recordings of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Vivaldi's L’estro armonico, the complete Sibelius symphonies, Mendelssohn's String Quintets and more

Introducing the April 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Klaus Mäkelä

Features

Friday, March 18, 2022

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Klaus Mäkelä: superb Sibelius from the most talked-about conductor of his generation | Handel’s Messiah: the finest recordings to hear | Johan Dalene: the young violinist’s concerto album | Glenn Gould: the making of a piano icon

Video of the Day: Poulenc's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Classical Music News

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

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Performance taken from Maximiliano Martín's new Delphian album

Rachel Willis-Sørensen signs to Sony Classical

Classical Music News

Friday, February 25, 2022

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The American soprano will release her first solo album in April

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on his continuing Mozart piano concerto cycle

Podcasts

Friday, April 8, 2022

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The pianist discusses volume six, featuring No 22, K482 and No 23, K488

Introducing the March 2022 issue of Gramophone

Features

Friday, February 18, 2022

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John Adams at 75: how the composer became one of modern music’s most powerful voices | Emőke Baráth on recording Handel’s heroines and heroes | Respighi’s Rome: who best captures the Eternal City? | Frank Peter Zimmermann’s solo Bach journey

Stewart Brown, founder of Testament Records, has died aged 69

Classical Music News

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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We pay tribute to the founder of the Award-winning reissues label

The Platinum Jubilee: the Queen’s reign in music

Features

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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The second instalment of our bumper Platinum Playlist explores the composers and new pieces inspired by the Monarch

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 6, ‘Pathétique’: the finest recordings

Features

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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The enigmatic masterwork of Tchaikovsky’s final days remains open to a wide range of interpretations. Andrew Farach‑Colton hears how it has been approached on recordings dating back almost a century