Search results for | Gramophone

Friday, March 21, 2025

| Gramophone

'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'

Phantasmagoria (Lise de la Salle)

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

That she has mastered its unique physical and emotional demands is not in doubt. Listening to the work unfold on her finely recorded Steinway, she proves a supremely confident guide

Glass Complete Piano Etudes (Máire Carroll)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

| International Piano

Carroll’s playing on this well-engineered album serves Glass’s aesthetic with sincere and masterly integrity

Field Complete Nocturnes (Alice Sara Ott)

Friday, March 7, 2025

| International Piano

Alice Sara Ott brings to these pieces an expressive touch, subtle rubato, graceful left-hand fluidity and sparkling right-hand filigree

In the presence of a national treasure: Kurtág’s Játékok through Aimard’s hands

Thursday, April 17, 2025

| Gramophone

Pierre-Laurent Aimard has recorded the largest selection yet from György Kurtág’s Játékok, and in the presence of the composer, who recently turned 99. Peter Quantrill attended the sessions in Budapest to discuss the project with the pianist

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1978

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

| Gramophone

Looking back at the winning recordings of the 1978 Gramophone Awards, featuring Janet Baker, Simon Rattle, Alfred Brendel, Plácido Domingo and more

BBC Proms 2025: 86 concerts, 80 debut soloists, and a return to overnight music-making

Thursday, April 24, 2025

| Gramophone

The 2025 Proms season runs from 18 July to 13 September, with a programme featuring world premieres, visiting international orchestras, landmark anniversaries, and the festival’s first overnight Prom in more than 40 years

Welsh National Opera study shows significant improvement in pain management and quality of life for participants

Monday, March 31, 2025

| Opera Now

WNO's wellness programme has shown improvements in pain management for 67% of participants

Luke Fitzgerald to replace Anna Lapwood at Pembroke

Friday, April 4, 2025

| Choir and Organ

The current Acting Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral will join the College later in the year

New organ announced for St Bartholomew the Great

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

| Choir and Organ

A Eule organ has been agreed for the historic City of London church

Elly Ameling at 92: a career in the service of art song

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

During a visit to the Leeds Song festival, James Jolly met up with one of his musical heroines, the Dutch soprano Elly Ameling to talk about her distinguished career

Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings

Choral Communities | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choirs

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Clare Stevens explores the strength and unique offering of Liverpool’s amateur choral scene

VE Day 80: a playlist of music to mark the anniversary

Thursday, May 8, 2025

| Gramophone

From composer-soldiers to contemporary writers reflecting on the anniversary, Jack Pepper curates a playlist marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe

Interview with George McPhee, Paisley Abbey's Organist and Director of Music

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

George McPhee has spent more than 60 years shaping the sound of Paisley Abbey, mentoring generations of musicians and transforming its musical life. He reflects on a lifetime in Scottish church music, from early piano lessons and art school ambitions to championing Renaissance polyphony and rebuilding the choir for a new era

Icon: Jiří Bělohlávek

Friday, May 16, 2025

| Gramophone

Gavin Dixon celebrates the achievements of this important Czech conductor who played a large part in bringing lesser-known music of his fellow countrymen to audiences worldwide

Introducing the Summer 2025 issue of Choir & Organ

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

'Father' Willis in Kilburn: an outstanding instrument is restored to match the glory of its surroundings | Joanna Marsh: the composer on exciting new commissions for St John’s and Chichester

The Music of Malcolm Arnold

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

Anyone looking for unexplored choral repertoire by this British master should investigate this recording

Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis

Friday, May 9, 2025

| Choir and Organ

This recording reveals the true glories of Williams’s inspiration

Jed Distler's Cliburn Blog No 2: Playing what they love

Blogs

Friday, May 23, 2025

| Gramophone

'Not since Alfred Cortot and, more recently, Francesca Libetta have I heard Saint-Säens served up with such boundless imagination and character, not to mention transcendental virtuosity'

Archive focus | Michel Béroff

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

Jonathan Dobson listens to the distinctive EMI legacy of the French pianist Michel Béroff, who turns 75 this year

Beethoven: Kavatine – Sonatas Op 109, Op 110, Op 111

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'There’s no denying his clarity: fingerwork is immaculate (passagework, trills and tremolos are unfailingly neat) and textures are lucid'

Haochen Zhang plays Beethoven & Liszt

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'Haochen Zhang's precision is stunning – the bounce he brings to the streams of notes in the finale of the Beethoven, the clarity he gives to the bel canto filigree in the Liszt, the assured voicing and dynamics throughout'

Bartók

Friday, May 23, 2025

| International Piano

'Her fifth album for Rubicon finds Sonya Bach as attuned to the music of Bartók as she was to that of Chopin, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky on previous releases'

Medtner: Sonata-Ballade, Sonata-Idyll, Forgotten Melodies