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
Composer and author Robin Holloway on celebrating 900 years of classical music
The composer, academic and writer Robin Holloway has just published a new book, Music's Odyssey, An Invitation to Western Classical Music (Allen Lane). He's Emeritus Professor of Music at the Universi...
28 Okt 202537min
Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky on his new album 'Gelosia!'
The French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has just released a new Erato album of cantatas da camera by Alessandro Scarlatti, Porpora, Galuppi, Handel and Vivaldi, 'Gelosia!'. On it he also conducts h...
24 Okt 202534min
The Hermes Experiment on their new album, Tree
The Hermes Experiment - an ever-innovative, exploratory and imaginative ensemble - have released their new album, Tree, a meditation on nature, memory and change embracing contemporary composers and r...
20 Okt 202534min
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025: The Winners
In this special edition of the Gramophone Podcast, we explore the full list of winners from this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Editor Emeritus James Jolly, Editor Martin Cullingford, Deput...
17 Okt 202556min
Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart's symphonies
For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford travelled to Padua to talk to Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of Il Pomo d'Oro, about recording Mozart symphonies - and specially thei...
10 Okt 202526min
Tine Thing Helseth on Echoes, her new album of trumpet concertos
This week's guest on the Gramophone Podcast is trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Lawo label. Called 'Echoes', it features works by Aru...
2 Okt 202531min
