From Lise Davidsen’s rare Senta to rediscovered Boult and radiant Ravel, these are the recordings that define this month’s ...

Mason, the Takács Quartet and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, guides to Sofronitsky and Silvestrov, and a deep dive into Prokofiev’s ...

Kick off your worldwide festival-going adventures this year by perusing our guide – you’re bound to spot something that ...

Today's Video of the Day was filmed live in Oxford’s iconic Sheldonian Theatre. This performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor brings together the Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford and the Academy of ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard has recorded the largest selection yet from György Kurtág’s Játékok, and in the presence of the ...

A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a major new study ...

A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and the debut products are both very affordable and handmade in Britain ...

From Proms sensation to forgotten gem, this once-popular orchestral work's revival on record offers new life – despite its absence from the concert stage ...

Lise Davidsen’s Senta, Sofronitsky’s spontaneity, Karajan live in Berlin – this month’s issue offers powerful reminders of how recordings preserve the unrepeatable ...

The reach of Carmen is greater than opera itself – there are many who could hum the Habanera or whistle the Toreador song without ever having set foot in an opera house. Bizet’s rather controversial ...

All of the winners of the 1981 edition of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, headlined by a Recording of the Year Award for Karajan's Parsifal Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up ...

'The past in the present – this is my task.' Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, subtitled a ‘national music drama’, is no sweeping historical epic, but a sombre meditation on Russian history. It’s a ...