What do this year's Gramophone Awards tell us about the current state of classical music?
- Monday, October 9, 2023
Editor Martin Cullingford reflects on the differences of a passing year – or century
Blogs
Pianist Cordelia Williams on the beguiling nature of musical miniatures
- Friday, September 15, 2023
Rather than a coherent ‘whole’, this music gives us micro-glimpses into countless worlds – inner worlds, literal worlds, dissolving worlds, worlds of imagination
Introducing 'Gramophone Presents … My Classical Music'
- Wednesday, September 6, 2023
The joy of talking to leading figures about their musical journeys – and sharing them in our latest special edition
John Gilhooly: keeper of the musical flame at Wigmore Hall
- Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Amid a feast of world-class music-making, James Jolly sits down with the Director of London’s Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly to find out how this unique concert hall ticks
An opera composer asks: who am I writing for?
- Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Composer Will Todd talks about writing the opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ahead of a performance at If Opera
How composers find musical inspiration in real life stories
- Friday, July 21, 2023
Penelope Thwaites reflects on how the stories of real people inspire and motivate her compositional process
The special appeal of historic recordings
- Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Rob Cowan's Replay column, which celebrates the best of recent reissues, has now been a crucial part of Gramophone for 30 years
From Handel and Hendrix to Joseph Bologne, the power of context in appreciating music
- Saturday, June 17, 2023
Understanding history can add much to the impact of composers and their works
An inspiring musical offering to an often under-served minority
- Monday, June 12, 2023
David Fray’s L’Offrande Musicale festival brings world class music-making to hundreds of disabled people, and the result is magnificent and moving
What lies ahead for classical recording?
- Monday, May 15, 2023
‘High costs and a vast catalogue concentrate the mind, and the result is release schedules full of purpose and creativity’
The beauty of Beethoven's symphonies arranged for piano duet
- Friday, April 21, 2023
Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman make the case for exploring Beethoven's symphonies in their piano duet arrangements by Xaver Scharwenka
Keep raising your voices for classical music!
- Friday, April 14, 2023
Making a video, sharing speeches, signing petitions: it all makes a difference
Remembering Denis Stevens
- Monday, March 20, 2023
The early music pioneer and prolific record-maker's centenary fell last year – but why aren't more of his albums available?
Celebrating a century of Gramophone
- Friday, March 17, 2023
Gramophone's Editor introduces a special anniversary edition of the magazine
The power of Schubert’s Fantasie
- Friday, March 10, 2023
The extraordinary work holds a particularly personal power for Stella Chen - so how did early critics get it so wrong?
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