Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
Weekly conversations about classical music with leading musicians and writers
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 526
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Bridget Cunningham on Handel's Caio Fabbricio
John Williams on writing a new violin concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter premiered John Williams’s Second Violin Concerto, written for her, in Boston in July 2021 and DG recorded the work shortly after. One of the most listened-to composers on the plane…
Helen Charlston on her first solo album, 'Battle Cry: She Speaks'
Helen Charlston has recorded her first entirely solo album for Delphian, for which she was joined by the theorbo player Toby Carr. 'Battle Cry: She Speaks' combines music of the 17th century with a n…
Cyrille Dubois on recording the complete Fauré songs
Anne Akiko Meyers on her new album, 'Shining Night'
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers's new album, 'Shining Night', takes listeners on a musical journey through the passing of a day - via Villa-Lobos, Leo Brouwer, Bach and even Elvis - much of it in the com…
Jakub Józef Orliński on his Polish song album, 'Farewells'
Jakub Józef Orliński was Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year in 2019 and in the three years since has established himself as one of the world’s leading countertenors. An exclusive Erato artist, he’…
Anne Dudley on how a new piano inspired her lockdown album
Emmanuelle Haïm on 20 years of Le Concert d’Astrée
A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Exploring the genius of JS Bach
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on Mozart on piano concertos
Introducing the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition
The 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition launches on Tuesday, April 5 with its preliminary rounds in London. Between then and April 10, some of the world's most impressive young…
Osmo Vänskä on the Minnesota Orchestra, Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year
Paul Hillier on Jóhann Jóhannsson's Drone Mass
A recording of Drone Mass by the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson is released today by Deutsche Grammophon, performed by Theatre of Voices and ACME, and conducted by Paul Hillier. In this we…
Nadine Sierra on her new album 'Made for Opera'
Martin James Bartlett on his new Gershwin and Rachmaninov album, 'Rhapsody'
James Jolly met up with Martin to talk abo…
François-Xavier Roth on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande was recorded for Harmonia Mundi, following performances directed by Daniel Jeanneteau at the Opéra de Lille last March. François-Xavier Roth conducted his period-instru…
Exploring Mozart
Daniel Hope on 'America', his new album
For this week's Gramophone podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by violinist Daniel Hope to explore his new album 'America', available now on the Deutsche Grammophon label
Leonidas Kavakos on Bach's solo violin suites
Leonidas Kavakos's recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is newly released on Sony Classical. In today's Gramophone Podcast he talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about t…
Gramophone Podcast: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 5
Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, designed by Harzog and du Meuron, and occupying a prime position in the old docks area of the city, opened its doors five years ago. Since then it has welcomed about 3.3 mi…