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This week we explore new releases from the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds, Dover Quartet, Gilbert Rowland, Abel Selaocoe and Can Çakmur ...
The Recording of the Year Award went to Simon Rattle's account of Mahler's Tenth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic, while other Awards went to the Emerson Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin and Barbara B ...
Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Ola Gjeilo's 'The Rose' by newly formed London-based professional choir Meridian. The performance is from ‘Serenity’ in LIVE From London Summer ’25 filmed ...
Review - Aldo Ciccolini’s complete Erato recordings Jed Distler Friday, August 8, 2025 Jed Distler dives into an essential collection issued to mark the pianist’s centenary ...
Classics Reconsidered: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, conducted by Pierre Dervaux Friday, August 8, 2025 Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan return to the first recording of Poulenc’s Dialogues ...
Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford’s new album of Dowland and Purcell with the Jupiter ensemble is very much a ‘family’ affair, as they tell Mark Seow ...
Debussy’s Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: a guide to the greatest recordings Tim Ashley Friday, August 8, 2025 Debussy’s sensuously beautiful music for D’Annunzio’s ambivalent mystery play has been ...
Review - The Voice of the Century: Kirsten Flagstad (by Ingeborg Solbrekken, translated by Anne Bruce) David Patrick Stearns Friday, August 8, 2025 'It’s a staggering achievement, helped partly by ...
Andrew Manze interview: ‘Now I’m really excited about Bliss. There are some really fantastic pieces’ Andrew Mellor Friday, August 8, 2025 Could a composer ask for a more sincere and committed advocate ...
Icon: Edith Farnadi Jeremy Nicholas Friday, August 8, 2025 Jeremy Nicholas champions an almost forgotten Hungarian pianist who not only worked as teaching assistant to Bartók but also played under ...
Arvo Pärt at 90: ‘Contemporary music has a far broader audience than it would have reached without him’ Andrew Mellor Friday, August 8, 2025 As Arvo Pärt enters his tenth decade, Andrew Mellor ...
Is it real, or is it AI? Andrew Everard Friday, August 8, 2025 One of the current sensations of the Spotify playlists turns out to be a creation entirely produced by AI: is this going to change the ...