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
Xavier de Maistre on recording two 20th-century harp concertos
Xavier de Maistre – with Cologne's WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann – has recorded harp concertos by Reinhold Glière and Alexander Mosolov for Sony Classical, supplemented by a …
Amanda Lee Falkenberg and Marin Alsop on The Moons Symphony
A recording of the Australian composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg’s The Moons Symphony has just been released in Dolby Atmos sound by Signum. Featuring London Voices and the London Symphony Orchestra, the…
Sharon Bezaly on her new album, ‘Synergy’
This week’s Gramophone Podcast sees flautist Sharon Bezaly talk to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new and wide-ranging album of concerto collaborations called ‘Synergy’, available today on BIS. …
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022 were unveiled last night. Editor-in-Chief James Jolly, Editor Martin Cullingford and Reviews Editor Tim Parry explore and celebrate all the winning artists …
Ludovic Tézier on his album of opera duets with Jonas Kaufmann, 'Insieme'
Following last year's Gramophone Award-winning solo Verdi album, Ludovic Tézier returns to the composer – and a couple of others – for his latest Sony Classical release, 'Insieme' (Together). Joinin…
Remembering Dmitri Hvorostovsky
This autumn marks five year since the death of the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, aged just 55. To mark this sad anniversary Decca Eloquence has gathered together the 11 recital programmes he recorded…
Lucie Horsch on her new album, Origins
Lucie Horsch’s new album, Origins, begins with the bebop of Charlie Parker before taking us on wide-ranging and diverse journey embracing Bartók, Piazzolla, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with a parti…
Bjarte Eike on The Playhouse Sessions
The forthcoming album from Bjarte Eike and the Barokksolistene explores the world of Restoration London, when musicians, actors and art forms all mingled creatively in the backrooms of English pubs. …
Plínio Fernandes on his album, Saudade
Guitarist Plínio Fernandes's debut album for Decca Gold, 'Saudade', is a very personal album drawing on his Brazilian roots. From music at the heart of the classical guitar repertoire such as Villa-L…
Exploring the music of Mahler
Edward Seckerson joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk to Editor Martin Cullingford about the music, recordings and greatest interpreters of Mahler
Jonathan Tetelman on his debut album 'Arias'
The tenor Jonathan Tetelman has signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, the first fruit of which is a solo album called, simply, 'Arias'. James Jolly caught up with him by vi…
A Gramophone Archive Podcast: Víkingur Ólafsson on 'Mozart & Contemporaries'
During holiday periods, we occasionally return to past podcasts, and this week, prompted by the news that he is about to release a new album inspired by an encounter with György Kurtág, we revisit a …
A Gramophone Archive Podcast: Andrew Nethsingha on the new album from St John's College, Cambridge
During holiday periods, we occasionally revisit past podcasts, and this week, prompted by the announcement that Andrew Nethsingha will be succeeding James O'Donnell as Organist and Choirmaster of Wes…
Paul Paray: The art of the great conductor
Eloquence has just issued two box sets, 'Paul Paray: The Mercury Masters', 45 CDs in all, which gather together the recordings made for Mercury between 1953 and 1962. The French conductor (1886-1979)…
Orchestra of the Year 2022: The Nominees Part 2
Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award is the only prize voted on by readers. To help you choose this year's winner, James Jolly spoke to two of Gramophone's regular contributors about five orchest…
Orchestra of the Year 2022: The Nominees Part 1
Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award is the only prize voted on by music lovers, and to help you decide on 2022's ensemble, James Jolly spoke to two of our regular contributors about five orchest…
Nicholas Phan and Nico Muhly on the genesis of 'Stranger'
Nico Muhly’s Stranger, premiered in 2020, gives its name to a new album from Avie featuring the tenor Nicholas Phan. The album also includes two earlier works, Muhly's Lorne ys my likinge, written as…
Andrew Mellor on his new book on Nordic culture, 'The Northern Silence'
Andrew Mellor is a former Gramophone Reviews Editor who now lives in Denmark where he pursues a career as a freelance journalist with a special focus on things Nordic, and he's still very much part o…
Liszt's piano music, with Alexander Ullman
Alexander Ullman's new album featuring Liszt's Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 and the Sonata in B Minor, is released today on Rubicon Classics. The Award-winning pianist joined Gramophone's Editor Marti…
James Ehnes on his string quartet and recording late Beethoven
The Canadian violinist James Ehnes has his own string quartet for which he’s joined by fellow violinist Amy Schwarz Moretti, viola-player Richard Yongjae O’Neill and cellist Edward Arron, and they’ve…