Edmund Finnis and Clare Hammond on recording Youth
Youth is an EP of solo piano music by Edmund Finnis and performed by Clare Hammond, and described as 'a set of brief pieces recalling an image, sensation of place, significant encounter or a moment of...
2 Feb 202420min
Timothy Ridout on 'A Lionel Tertis Celebration'
Timothy Ridout won last year's Concerto category at the Gramophone Awards for his Harmonia Mundi recording, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins, of Elgar's Cello Concerto transcribed b...
26 Jan 202426min
Krystian Zimerman on Szymanowski, conducting and retirement
The great Polish pianist and conductor Krystian Zimerman came to London last October to collect his Gramophone Award, his seventh, for his latest DG album of music by Karol Szymanowki. James Jolly cau...
19 Jan 202426min
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood on 'Handel for Trumpet'
For his tenth album of music for trumpet and piano in the 're-imagined' series for Linn, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood has turned to a composer right at the centre of the period he's most associated with, ...
12 Jan 202432min
From the Archive: Peter Phillips on the music of Josquin
The Tallis Scholars' acclaimed series of recordings of the Masses of Josquin Desprez is one of the great milestones to the catalogue. Featuring what may be the last Mass the composer wrote, the Missa ...
5 Jan 202414min
Dame Janet Baker – a great singer reflects on her career
Dame Janet Baker's contribution to classical music - in performance and on record - has been remarkable, enriching both the stage and the catalogue with performances of astonishing beauty, power and v...
28 Dec 202334min
Esa-Pekka Salonen on music in California
Esa-Pekka Salonen took over the helm of the San Francisco Symphony in 2020 from Michael Tilson Thomas. Both men have had a major impact on symphonic music in California, and Salonen is one of the thre...
22 Dec 202327min
Owain Park on the new album from The Gesualdo Six, 'Morning Star'
This week Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by Owain Park, conductor, composer and founding director of The Gesualdo Six to explore the ensemble's new album, 'Morning Star', a programme...
15 Dec 202325min
