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
Elgar's Cello Concerto: a Gramophone Podcast revisited
While we take a pause for Christmas, we're bringing you four podcasts which we found particularly memorable conversations, and this week it's once again the turn of Martin Cullingford to choose. In O…
A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Bernstein in Rome
While we take a pause for Christmas and the New Year, we're bringing you four podcasts which we've particularly enjoyed making. This week's is by James Jolly, and comes from August 2018 when he went …
A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Dame Emma Kirkby
While we take a pause for Christmas, we're bringing you four podcasts which Gramophone's Martin Cullingford and James Jolly have chosen as particularly enjoyable conversations. This podcast dates fro…
A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Sir Thomas Allen on the Great American Songbook
While we take a pause for Christmas, we offer four podcasts which Gramophone's Martin Cullingford and James Jolly have chosen as particularly enjoyable and memorable conversations. We start with one …
Our favourite albums of 2021
This week's episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing an artist about their new album, Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford, Editor-in-Chief James Jolly, and Reviews Editor Tim Parry, …
Aleksandra Kurzak on Mozart 'Concertante'
Aleksandra Kurzak joined Vienna's Morphing Chamber Orchestra for a new album for Aparté - 'Mozart - Concertante'. The programme culminates in a performance of the great Sinfonia concertante for violi…
Marin Alsop on Hindemith, Vienna and a new chapter
After leading orchestras in Bournemouth, Baltimore and São Paulo, Marin Alsop became Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2019. Her inaugural concert in Vienna's Konzerthaus …
Andrew Nethsingha on the new album from St John's
For this week's Gramophone podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by Andrew Nethsingha, Director of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge to discuss their new album on Signum, 'The Tree' - …
Jeanine De Bique in her new album of Baroque heroines, 'Mirrors'
The soprano Jeanine De Bique has released her first solo album, 'Mirrors', with Concerto Köln, for Berlin Classics. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with her to talk about the recording, as well as…
Philippe Jaroussky on his new album, À sa guitare
In this week's podcast we welcome countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, to talk about his new album À sa guitare, recorded with Thibaut Garcia. A beautiful album that takes us on a journey from the Renais…
Remembering Bernard Haitink
The great Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink died on October 21 at the age of 92. During his 65 years career he conducted many of the world's great orchestras, holding posts with Amsterdam's Concertgeb…
Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, with Fabio Biondi
For this week's Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the acclaimed violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi to talk about the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by JS Bach…
The Bach Cello Suites: Steven Isserlis
Bach's cello suites are among the most extraordinary works - both joyful and profound - written for the instrument. In his new book, 'The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion', published by Faber, Steven I…
The Gramophone Awards Podcast: celebrating the winners
The winners of the 2021 Gramophone Classical Music Awards have been revealed. To hear more about what lay behind the decisions to honour this year's winners, and to hear excerpts from all the winning…
Celebrating Carl Nielsen with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
This weekend marks the 90th anniversary of the death of Carl Nielsen, and one of the most prominent flag-bearers for his legacy today is the Carl Nielsen International Competition. In this week’s Gra…
The Gramophone Awards: the recording category winners
Today, we revealed the 11 albums to have won the recording categories at this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards, and which will now go on to compete to be named Recording of the Year on Octobe…
Charles Owen on the Swiss book of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage
Charles Owen's latest recording for Avie is of the First Book, Switzerland from Franz Liszt's Années de pèlerinage ('Years of wandering). Charles talks to James Jolly about how he took the opportunit…
Jean-Yves Thibaudet on ‘Carte blanche’
To celebrate his 60th birthday – and his first album for Decca in a decade – Jean-Yves Thibaudet has programmed a beautiful solo recital full of works with strong personal connections for him. Called…
Víkingur Ólafsson on 'Mozart & Contemporaries'
Gramophone's Artist of the Year for 2019, Víkingur Ólafsson, has recorded three critically acclaimed albums for DG, and now he adds a fourth entitled 'Mozart & Contemporaries' which gathers music by …
Lucas Debargue on the magical music of Miłosz Magin
Lucas Debargue, who shot to fame during the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition where he took fourth prize, but totally stole the audience’s hearts, and shortly after was signed by Sony Classi…