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Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson receives the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal. It was presented onstage at Lond...
26/09/2025

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson receives the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal. It was presented onstage at London’s Royal Festival Hall, in the opening concert of Philharmonia Orchestra’s 80th anniversary season, with whom Ólafsson is this year’s Featured Artist 🎶

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Gramophone’s historical recordings expert Rob Cowan shares his enthusiasm for old recordings and reveals what can be lea...
26/09/2025

Gramophone’s historical recordings expert Rob Cowan shares his enthusiasm for old recordings and reveals what can be learnt from them

Pati's first single off his newest album, 'Serenata a Napoli', on 26 September, a collection of Neapolitan songs
25/09/2025

Pati's first single off his newest album, 'Serenata a Napoli', on 26 September, a collection of Neapolitan songs

The ‘tremendous’ Third Symphony is both great music and a force beyond music. How, asks Richard Osborne, have conductors...
25/09/2025

The ‘tremendous’ Third Symphony is both great music and a force beyond music. How, asks Richard Osborne, have conductors met this challenge during the work’s 90-year-long recorded history?

The recording is from the pair's debut album
25/09/2025

The recording is from the pair's debut album

With Beethoven recordings, it’s often the same – justifiably famous – ones that regularly get recommended. We asked Rob ...
24/09/2025

With Beethoven recordings, it’s often the same – justifiably famous – ones that regularly get recommended. We asked Rob Cowan to point us towards others – some of the most inspired and inspiring interpretations you probably haven’t heard...

Watch as our Editor Martin Cullingford brings the Opera Rara 'Lives in Song' podcast season to a close, reiterating the ...
23/09/2025

Watch as our Editor Martin Cullingford brings the Opera Rara 'Lives in Song' podcast season to a close, reiterating the remarkable impact of Opera Rara on the record industry.

In the final episode of this season, host Flora Willson and Donizetti expert Prof. Roger Parker trace the final, tragic chapter of Gaetano Donizetti's life. ...

Raphaël Pichon shares with Mark Seow his vision of a work both shocking and beautiful: Bach’s Mass in B minor
23/09/2025

Raphaël Pichon shares with Mark Seow his vision of a work both shocking and beautiful: Bach’s Mass in B minor

This performance took place at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall as part of the 2025 St. Lawrence Chamber Music Se...
23/09/2025

This performance took place at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall as part of the 2025 St. Lawrence Chamber Music Seminar

The Sixth is the outlier among Beethoven’s symphonies, rural and rustic where the others are driven and dramatic. Richar...
22/09/2025

The Sixth is the outlier among Beethoven’s symphonies, rural and rustic where the others are driven and dramatic. Richard Osborne makes a selection of the best versions from a rich recorded history

Stephen Hough explores the genesis of Les Noces Rouges, to be performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on October ...
19/09/2025

Stephen Hough explores the genesis of Les Noces Rouges, to be performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on October 7 and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London on October 9

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new Sony Classical recording of Bach’s Cello Sui...
19/09/2025

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new Sony Classical recording of Bach’s Cello Suites

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The World’s Authoritative Voice on Classical Music Since 1923.

Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’. Gramophone, which has been serving the classical music world since 1923, is first and foremost a monthly review magazine, delivered today in both print and digital formats.

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