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Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien: the best recordings

Friday, June 14, 2024

| Gramophone

Heinrich Schütz’s German Requiem has become one of the most-recorded works of 17th-century German sacred music. Fabrice Fitch investigates its rich discography

Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata: a deep dive into the best recordings

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

| Gramophone

Beethoven’s most popular sonata, the ‘Moonlight’, has been performed and recorded by hundreds of pianists over the past century. Jed Distler compares a judicious selection of recordings

Contemporary Composer: Arlene Sierra

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

| Gramophone

The substantial and individual work of this UK-based, US-born composer is championed by Richard Whitehouse

Icon: Fritz Kreisler

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Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Tully Potter celebrates the prototypical Viennese-style violinist who for half a century was adored among peers, critics and audiences, and who made hundreds of recordings

Icon: Edwin Fischer

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Monday, January 9, 2023

| Gramophone

Celebrating the qualities of his playing and the many and varied achievements of this Swiss pianist, Stephen Cera highlights the fact that he deserves greater recognition as an innovator

Rostropovich: what made the cellist a 20th-century musical icon?

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

| Gramophone

Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates the artistry of a legendary fellow cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian musician who was an outspoken advocate of human rights and an inspiration for many composers

Contemporary composer: Oliver Leith

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Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Hattie Butterworth explores this young British composer’s unique influences and how collaborations are crucial to his work

Icon: Grace Bumbry

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

| Gramophone

A tribute to the American soprano/mezzo Grace Bumbry who dreamt of becoming a Lieder singer then fell into opera

Contemporary composer: Benet Casablancas

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

| Gramophone

This Catalan’s many and varied interests are evident throughout both his small- and his large-scale output, says Gavin Dixon

Resurrecting an English rarity: Stanford’s The Critic at Wexford Festival Opera

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

| Opera Now

As Wexford Festival Opera prepares to stage Stanford’s English satire The Critic, we explore the work’s history and its place in the composer’s operatic output

A Puccini Century: 10 defining moments

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

| Opera Now

Looking back on 10 key operatic moments in 100 years since Puccini’s death

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Classical Music News

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

| Gramophone

Revealing all of this year's winners from the 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards

A letter from Minneapolis: ‘We’ve entered an anxious era in arts organisations’ offices’

Blogs

Friday, October 4, 2024

| Gramophone

Despite a testing financial climate, Rob Hubbard finds the Twin Cities’ musical life in rude health

Verdi: Don Carlo at the Vienna State Opera | Live Review

Review

Friday, September 27, 2024

| Opera Now

Serebrennikov conducts a controversial history lesson in Vienna

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire unveils brand new ‘Juliet’ organ

News

Friday, October 4, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The inaugural festival for Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s new ‘Juliet’ organ will run between November 4-10

Gramophone's Artists of the Year from 2014 to 2024

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Monday, October 21, 2024

| Gramophone

All of our Artists of the Year from 2014 to 2024 with recommended recordings for each artist

Bach to basics

Features

Friday, July 3, 2020

| International Piano

Like all conductors, David Bernard spends much of his time imparting precise ideas about musical works to other performers, but when he contracted COVID-19, a deep dive into the Well-Tempered Clavier altered his views on Bach – and his whole approach to music

Gramophone's Recording of the Year & Instrumental Award 2024: Ysaÿe’s Violin Sonatas

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

| Gramophone

The celebrated American violinist Hilary Hahn brings technique and personality to often‑recorded works in electrifying accounts that are set to be a new benchmark

Behind the scenes with an intimacy director

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

| Opera Now

A newly established career path, intimacy directors are becoming an ever-more frequent feature of opera productions. Hannah Goalstone shares her journey into the profession