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Nigel Kennedy's recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the LPO and Vernon Handley won the Recording of the Year in 1985, but it was a vintage year with other prizes for Jorge Bolet, Bernard Haitink, Elisabeth Söderström, Neeme Järvi and more

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1984

Features

Friday, April 25, 2025

| Gramophone

Karajan's live recording of Mahler's Ninth took to top prize – Recording of the Year – at the 1984 Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Raising the bar | Interview with Charlotte Corderoy

Features

Thursday, April 24, 2025

| Opera Now

At 27, conductor Charlotte Corderoy is making waves in the opera world, with debuts at English National Opera, Glyndebourne, and beyond. We meet the rising star whose journey has taken her from cathedral choirs to the international stage

Edward Gardner faces the horror and beauty of Strauss's Salome head-on

Features

Thursday, April 17, 2025

| Gramophone

Edward Gardner wrestles with Strauss’s darkest opera in a gripping new Chandos recording – and finds unsettling revelations in every bar

Top 5 classical releases you need to hear this week – featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Esther Abrami & Arabella Steinbacher

Classical Music News

Friday, April 25, 2025

| Gramophone

A strongly string-themed week, with three cellists and two violinists in the spotlight, in music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Ina Boyle, and more

Mental Health in Opera | Poppy Shotts

Features

Thursday, April 24, 2025

| Opera Now

The singer shares her journey from grief and depression to building a more joyful and authentic life

Dietrich Buxtehude Complete Organ Works III

Review

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

The Treutmann organ is beautiful, but it lacks the clarity and spatial contrast essential for Buxtehude’s music

Longborough Festival founder dies aged 83

News

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

| Opera Now

Martin Graham, founder of Longborough Festival Opera, died yesterday on 21 April 2025

The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)

Features

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

If you are searching for an inspirational new recording, look no further. All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended.

Festivals Guide | Summer 2025

Features

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

Jonathon Brown peruses summer festival schedules and rummages through his sock drawer for his passport

Nuts and bolts of piano technique | Broken chords

Features

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

A manual breaking down aspects of piano technique with practical advice and step-by-step guidance for players of all standards

Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 9: From Mozart's Concertos to Mussorgsky's Pictures

Blogs

Friday, May 30, 2025

| Gramophone

'Jonas Aumiller opened his recital with the best Bach-Busoni D major Organ Prelude and Fugue, BWV532, I’ve heard in concert since the salad days of Marc-André Hamelin and Sergio Fiorentino'

Avner Dorman: Wahnfried at Longborough Festival Opera | Live Review

Review

Monday, June 2, 2025

| Opera Now

'The mischievous Wagner-dæmon offers biting commentary, effectively amplifying the opera’s critique of fanaticism'

Opera isn’t dead. It’s fighting back

Opinion

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

| Opera Now

I am simply floored, humbled and stupefied by opera’s power and the vision of those who deliver it, week-in week-out

Per Nørgård Obituary: 'The contemporary music world has lost an artist of colossal imagination and influence'

Classical Music News

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

| Gramophone

Composer Per Nørgård: Born July 13, 1932; Died May 28, 2025

Applications open for Barefoot Opera’s Summer course

News

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

| Opera Now

The course will focus on aligning body, breath, movement and sound, refining and evolving the operatic tradition

Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 17: Towards the home stretch

Blogs

Sunday, June 8, 2025

| Gramophone

'Aristo Sham took command of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 and ran away with it, infusing the gnarly solo part with purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry'