Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov
The Gramophone Award-winning pianist Kirill Gerstein has recorded Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko: it forms part of a twinned release, 'Rachman...
19 Maj 202329min
Edward Gardner: celebrating Chandos, Gramophone's Label of the Year
Chandos was named Gramophone's Label of the Year at the 2022 Gramophone Classical Music Awards in October – a perfect excuse for a series of podcasts focusing on some of the label's key artists and th...
12 Maj 202329min
Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe on 'Broken Branches'
On this week's Gramophone Podcast we talk to tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe about their album 'Broken Branches', released today on the Pentatone label. Featuring music by composers incl...
5 Maj 202320min
James Newby on 'Fallen to Dust', an English song recital
James Newby's new album, 'Fallen to Dust', for BIS explores English song, and particularly English on the theme of death. Joined by the pianist Joseph Middleton, he offers cycles by Sir Arthur Somervi...
28 Apr 202323min
Alexander Chance on English lute songs
Countertenor Alexander Chance – last year's winner of the International Handel Singing Competition – joins Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his debut album of English lute songs, 'Dr...
21 Apr 202333min
Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante's Il Proscritto
Carlo Rizzi, Opera Rara's Artistic Director, has recorded Mercadante's Il Proscritto for Opera Rara, another rarity to add to the label's growing catalogue. A well-chosen line-up of singers, including...
14 Apr 202330min
Cédric Tiberghien on piano variations by Beethoven … and more
The French pianist Cédric Tiberghien has just released a new album, Variation[s], on Harmonia Mundi. It takes Beethoven's many sets of themes and variations for solo piano as its starting point, and w...
7 Apr 202329min
Raphaël Feuillâtre on Baroque music for guitar
Guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre talks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about his debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, Visages Baroque, which weaves a programme of arrangements of music by French B...
31 Mars 202317min
