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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6-9 (Savall)

Beethoven's Symphonies Nos 6-9 from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations was our Recording of the Month in February, with Mark Pullinger concluding Savalls may well have just…

Gramophone 07.Mar.22

Verdi's Macbeth: a complete guide

Richard Wigmore reveals Verdi's creative process, Gianandrea Noseda provides unique insights, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings.

Gramophone 07.Mar.22

Mahler's Symphony No 4: a complete guide to the best recordings

Naivety or knowingness? Conductors from Abbado to Zinman have offered takes on this fin de sicle masterpiece, writes David Gutman...

Gramophone 07.Mar.22

Video of the Day: orchestras across Europe perform Ukrainian national anthem

Artists and audiences, from Gateshead to Katowice, Stockholm to Barcelona, show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine in a European Concert Hall Organisation film

Gramophone 06.Mar.22

Video of the Day: orchestras across Europe perform Ukrainian national anthem

ECHO film features artists and audiences across the continent showing their solidarity

Gramophone 06.Mar.22

Bizet's Carmen: A quick guide to essential recordings

Three highly recommended recordings of Bizet's Carmen from the 1950s, 1970s and the 21st century...

Gramophone 06.Mar.22

Brahms Symphony No 3 - which…

Brahms Symphony No 3 - which recording is best?
We survey the full range of recordings from the very earliest to the most recent.
What is your favourite recording of Brahms's 3rd Symphony?

Gramophone 06.Mar.22

How Beethovens symphonies…

How Beethovens symphonies changed the world...

Gramophone 06.Mar.22

Top 10 Haydn recordings

Ten of the finest Haydn recordings, from Steven Isserlis, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Leif Ove Andsnes and more

Gramophone 05.Mar.22

Concerts for Ukraine: how you can watch, and donate

Two new Ukraine benefit concerts announced for tomorrow: in Berlin (Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin) and Geneva (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Ye-Eun Choi, Vladimir Babeshko, and Daniel Mller-Schott) - both on medici.tv.

Gramophone 05.Mar.22

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Gramophone 05.Mar.22

Haydn and humour: it's time to rethink the boundary-breaking compose

As he releases his latest edition of Haydn's piano sonatas on Harmonia Mundi, Paul Lewis explains why Haydn is the composer he'd most like to have dinner with

Gramophone 05.Mar.22

Michael Tilson Thomas speaks…

Michael Tilson Thomas speaks out about cancer diagnosis, and steps down as Artistic Director of the New World Symphony

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Icon: Carlos Kleibe

David Patrick Stearns offers a profile of Carlos Kleiber, a complex, fascinating conductor and an often prickly character under whose guidance even the greatest of artists would surpass themselves.

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Official Specialist Classical Chart Top 20

We are pleased to reveal this week's Official Specialist Classical Chart Top 20, featuring albums by Joyce DiDonato, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gidon Kremer, Doric String Quartet and more...

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Netrebko's forthcoming Met Opera appearances cancelled

Move comes after soprano failed to repudiate her public support for Putin

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Timeline photos

A concert pianist ought to have the widest possible repertoire, although my old record company didnt share that view. Jed Distler profiles the pianist and writer Charles Rosen in…

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Concerts for Ukraine: how you can watch, and donate

Amsterdam and Munich - and artists including Anne-Sophie Mutter and Anna Fedorova - holding benefit concerts: how you can watch, and donate

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Martin James Bartlett on his new Gershwin and Rachmaninov album, 'Rhapsody'

This week on the Gramophone Podcast: for his second album for Warner Classics, the pianist Martin James Bartlett brings together works by Gershwin and Rachmaninov. James Jolly met…

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

Top 15 Dvok recordings

Dvok's music has inspired the advocacy of some of the finest musicians, from Rostropovich and Karajan to Koen and Rattle. Here are 15 of the best Dvok recordings...

Gramophone 04.Mar.22

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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6-9 (Savall)

Verdi's Macbeth: a complete guide

Mahler's Symphony No 4: a complete guide to the best recordings

Video of the Day: orchestras across Europe perform Ukrainian national anthem

Video of the Day: orchestras across Europe perform Ukrainian national anthem

Bizet's Carmen: A quick guide to essential recordings

Brahms Symphony No 3 - which…

How Beethovens symphonies…

Top 10 Haydn recordings

Concerts for Ukraine: how you can watch, and donate

Discover 50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, with extracts from the original Gramophone reviews... (Link)mop...

Haydn and humour: it's time to rethink the boundary-breaking compose

Michael Tilson Thomas speaks…

Icon: Carlos Kleibe

Official Specialist Classical Chart Top 20

Netrebko's forthcoming Met Opera appearances cancelled

Timeline photos

Concerts for Ukraine: how you can watch, and donate

Martin James Bartlett on his new Gershwin and Rachmaninov album, 'Rhapsody'

Top 15 Dvok recordings

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