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WNO announces new season

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

| Opera Now

The Cardiff-based company reveals a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, as well as Edward Dick's 2018 production of Tosca from Opera North

Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1 in C, Op 1 (Alexandre Kantorow)

Review

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

| International Piano

Few pianists possess such storming rhetorical mastery, an innate sense of poetry and unwavering musical assurance

Nevermind on Bach's Goldberg Variations

Podcasts

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

| Gramophone

The ensemble discuss their arrangement of the Baroque masterpiece, newly released on Alpha

Discovering Morricone: UK tour coming in March

Classical Music News

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

| Gramophone

Ennio Morricone's most famous works will be performed in special concerts in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Birmingham

The nuts and bolts of piano technique: Leaps

Features

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

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

Rediscovering Busoni: The Visionary Pianist Beyond His Bach Transcriptions

Features

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

| International Piano

Jiayan Sun reflects on the life and legacy of Ferruccio Busoni and introduces his new album, showcasing Busoni’s music alongside works that influenced him

Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings

Review

Friday, February 21, 2025

| Gramophone

Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin

Beethoven Five Piano Concertos (Alexander Lonquich)

Review

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

Resonance (Benjamin Hochman)

Review

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

Hochman is an engaged and engaging musician, and I look forward to hearing more from him

Bach & Chick Corea (Luiza Borac)

Review

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

Borac’s performance of the Goldbergs is a wonder of contrapuntal clarity, rhythmic acuity and belief

Setting sail into Verdi: Opera Rara and the 1857 Simon Boccanegra

Features

Friday, March 21, 2025

| Gramophone

Mark Pullinger meets Opera Rara’s Henry Little and Roger Parker to discover why they’ve studio-recorded a rare version of the Verdi, and hears from two of the young singers involved

Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures

Review

Thursday, April 17, 2025

| Gramophone

Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the crackling ghosts of 1925 to the lyrical power of forgotten greats like Elman, Varga, and Stanske

Contemporary Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina

Features

Friday, November 29, 2019

| Gramophone

Gavin Dixon salutes a composer whose music was once smuggled out of Russia and who remains a powerful creative force in her 80s

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina at Salzburg Easter Festival | Live Review

Review

Monday, April 14, 2025

| Opera Now

Good Morning, Moscow! The McBurneys give Khovanshchina a modern twist

Why make a high-end CD player in 2025?

Review

Friday, March 21, 2025

| Gramophone

Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly a streaming age, but the boss of the Michi brand thinks it’s worth all the effort

UK orchestral musicians unite to demand streaming royalties reform

News

Monday, April 7, 2025

| Gramophone

Artists from over 20 British orchestras join the Musicians’ Union in an urgent appeal to the UK government, warning that streaming’s royalty gap is pushing classical performers to the brink

Antonio Pappano appointed first Conductor Laureate of the Royal Opera

News

Thursday, May 1, 2025

| Opera Now

Antonio Pappano takes on a new title at Covent Garden following his 22-year tenure as Music Director

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works Vol 9

Review

Monday, April 7, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Elke Völker manages this mercurial music brilliantly, manipulating every gesture, phrase and dynamic contour as if the 90+ stop Walcker were a puppet on a string

Top 5 classical releases you need to hear this week – featuring John Wilson & Mariam Batsashvili

Classical Music News

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

New recordings from the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge and Christopher Gray, Mariam Batsashvili, and Yeol Eum Son