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
Cellist Zlatomir Fung on his debut recording of opera fantasies
Zlatomir Fung won the Cello category of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and also has an enviable collection of other cello awards and prizes to his name. He was a Borletti-Buitoni Tru…
Conductor Alan Gilbert on Brahms and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert is Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with him during a run of Wagner’s Die Wa…
Leif Ove Andsnes on Liszt's Via Crucis
In this episode, Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford talks to pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about his new recording on Sony Classical of the extraordinary work Via Crucis by Franz Liszt, the composer's…
Jessica Duchen on the life of pianist Myra Hess
This week journalist and author Jessica Duchen joins Holly Baker to talk about her new book Myra Hess - National Treasure, which is out now on Kahn & Averill.
Extracts of music on the podcast come f…
James Ehnes on Bach's complete violin concertos
This week violinist James Ehnes joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk about his new recording of Bach's complete violin concertos, recorded with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, and released o…
Attacca Quartet on Ravel and relationships
The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet has seen stratospheric success in recent years across new and popular music collaborations. Hattie Butterworth meets the group as their debut album w…
Anna Dennis and Julian Perkins on John Weldon's The Judgment of Paris
John Weldon, born in 1676, was an English composer and pupil of Henry Purcell. Keyboardist Julian Perkins and soprano Anna Dennis join Hattie Butterworth to discuss the world premiere recording of We…
Pianist Bertrand Chamayou on his 'Ravel Fragments' album
Maurice Ravel was born 150 years ago, on March 7, 1875, and he is the subject of numerous tributes this season. Bertrand Chamayou recorded the complete piano works ten years ago for Erato ('No one wh…
Ian Bostridge and Saskia Georgini on Schumann songs
Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Saskia Georgini join Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford this week to talk about their new album of Schumann Songs, Twilight, released on the Pentatone label.
Nevermind on Bach's Goldberg Variations
For this edition of the Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford was joined by three of the four members of the French ensemble Nevermind - flute player Anna Besson, viola da gamba player Robin P…
Baritone Benjamin Appl on his collaboration with György Kurtág
The baritone Benjamin Appl has recorded an album for Alpha that combines the music of György Kurtág with that of Franz Schubert. 'Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág' is the result of a long process tha…
María Dueñas on Paganini's Caprices
For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talked to violinist María Dueñas to talk about her wonderful new album of Paganini's 24 Caprices - as well as works by successors who wer…
Pianist Samson Tsoy on his debut solo album, 'Inmost Heart'
The pianist Samson Tsoy makes his solo debut on record with an album for Linn, 'Inmost Heart'. Built around Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, the programme explores Brahms's fascina…
Fatma Said on lieder and friendship
Soprano Fatma Said shares the closeness she feels to the world of lieder and how this has lead to her latest album on Warner Classics. She speaks to Hattie Butterworth about the element of friendship…
Pianist Dmitry Masleev on his Dies irae-themed Liszt & Rachmaninov album
Dmitry Masleev took first prize in the Piano category of the 2015 Tchaikovsky International Competition and since then has released a number of recordings. The latest, from Aparté, is a concertante c…
Seong-Jin Cho on Ravel's piano music
Seong-Jin Cho, the 30-year-old pianist and winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition, has been entrusted by Deutsche Grammophon to spearhead the company's celebrations of the 150th an…
James McVinnie on his new album, Dreamcatcher
Organist and pianist James McVinnie's new album 'Dreamcatcher' is a beautiful series of works by contemporary composers including Nico Muhly, John Adams, Giles Swayne, Gabriella Smith, Meredith Monk …
Pianists Yevgeny Sudbin and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in conversation with James Jolly
Last August Gramophone's James Jolly travelled to Montana in the USA, to sample the musical, artistic and architectural wonders of Tippet Rise, an arts centre created by Peter and Cathy Halstead on a…
Charles Villiers Stanford: Jeremy Dibble on the composer's music
In a special edition of the Gramophone Podcast, we explore the music of Charles Villiers Stanford with the leading expert on the composer, Jeremy Dibble, who joins Editor Martin Cullingford to mark t…
Conductor William Christie: An 80th birthday conversation
William Christie, the founder - and guiding spirit for the past 45 years – of Les Arts Florissants, celebrates his 80th birthday on December 19.
Gramophone's James Jolly went to visit him at home in…