Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

Michael Fabiano, recently in London to sing the title-role in Gounod's Faust at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, has recorded an album of arias by Donizetti and Verdi. He was joined for the Pent…

The latest recording from the choir of St John's College, Cambridge celebrates the 150th anniversary of the consecration of its chapel, and its 100th recording. Director of Music Andrew Nethsingha ta…

Kaija Saariaho has written a song-cycle, True Fire, for the baritone Gerald Finley, and which he has now recorded with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, for Ondine. James Jolly pa…

'Colin Currie and Steve Reich. Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton' is the third album to be released on Colin Currie's own label and captures five performances, taken live, at a Steve Reich presentation…

German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich talks to James Jolly about the challenge of Brahms's great Violin Concerto, which he has twinned with György Ligeti's Violin Concerto of some 110 years lat…

Carolyn Sampson talks to Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about 'Reason in Madness', her new recording from BIS performed with pianist Joseph Middleton, which focuses on some of literature's heroines whos…

Isabelle Faust, the multi-Gramophone Award-winning violinist, has recorded an album of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on the Harmonia Mundi label. …

Grace Williams (1906-77) was one of Wales’s finest composers - she left a sizeable body of work, her best-known piece being the orchestral tone-poem Penillion, as well as a lot of chamber music, much…

The Berlin Philharmonic clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about recording Weber's First Clarinet Concerto, and music by Brahms and Mendelssohn, for Deu…

Lucie Horsch’s new album, Baroque Journey, takes us on a thrilling and diverse journey through some of the recorder’s most beautiful repertoire. Gramophone’s Editor Martin Cullingford met her to disc…

As Dame Emma Kirkby, of the UK's most popular sopranos, reaches a milestone birthday, we catch up with her and look back over her career, with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly. With music courtesy of Hype…

The conductor Harry Christophers, who founded his choir The Sixteen in 1979, tells James Jolly about his new release - Handel's pastoral Acis and Galatea, issued on the Coro label.

The pianist and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year talks to James Jolly about his new album for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Mendelssohn's two piano concertos alongside two major solo works…

Pianist Roman Rabinovich discusses recording Haydn piano sonatas for First Hand Recordings. Presented by Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly.

Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber have embarked on a Schumann Lieder project; the first volume ‘Frage’ is just out and combines groups of songs – or song-cycles as Gerhaher argues – from 18…

The violinist Jennifer Pike tells James Jolly about her new album on Chandos called 'The Polish Violin', for which she's joined by the pianist Petr Limonov. It features music by Henryk Wieniawski, Ka…