Exploring Beethoven
In this week's Gramophone Podcast, the last of 2025, we explore the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Editor Emeritus James Jolly talks to Richard Wigmore – a long-standing contribut...
26 Des 20251h 8min
Critics Choice 2025
As another year of preparing and publishing many hundreds of reviews draws to a close, the three team members most involved - Reviews Editor Gavin Dixon, Deputy Editor Tim Parry, and Editor and Publis...
19 Des 202524min
Remembering Alfred Brendel, with his son Adrian Brendel
In this week's Gramophone Podcast we remember Alfred Brendel, one of the most significant and much-loved musical figures of age, in the company of his son, the cellist Adrian Brendel, who takes Editor...
13 Des 202551min
Christophe Rousset on Charpentier's Christmas music
In this week's edition of of the Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset to talk about his new album of Christmas music by the 17...
6 Des 202523min
Thomas Adès and the Ruisi Quartet on their new recording, Növények
We're joined for this week's Gramophone Podcast by composer Thomas Adès and two members of the Ruisi Quartet, violinist Alessandro Ruisi and viola player Luba Tunnicliffe, to talk about their recordin...
28 Nov 202536min
Samantha Ege and Leah Broad on Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Hattie Butterworth is joined by pianist and historian Samantha Ege and author Leah Broad to discuss the life and music of composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor as the first recording of her orchestral music...
20 Nov 202533min
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä on performing Mahler's Eighth at the 2025 Mahler Festival
In May this year, the Concertgebouw – Amsterdam's legendary concert hall – played host to the 2025 Mahler Festival. Originally scheduled for 2000, the centenary of the first such event, but moved back...
7 Nov 202519min
Pianist Mao Fujita on concluding his preludes project
Mao Fujita, who took second prize in the Piano category at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, released an album on Sony Classical of 72 preludes back in the autumn of 2024 – the three sets of 24 by Cho...
28 Okt 202523min
