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51:12

Remembering Alfred Brendel, with his son Adrian Brendel

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/12/13

In this week's Gramophone Podcast we remember Alfred Brendel, one of the most significant and much-loved musical figures of age, in the company of his son, the cellist Adrian Brendel, who takes Editor Martin Cullingford around the pianist's library and studio and reflects on what his books, art and belongings tell us about him. He also talks about a very special event on January 5, at the Barbican in London, at which fellow artists and friends of Alfred Brendel will gather for a remarkable evening

23:59

Christophe Rousset on Charpentier's Christmas music

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/12/06

In this week's edition of of the Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset to talk about his new album of Christmas music by the 17th century composer Charpentier - called a Baroque Christmas - recorded with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, and released on the ensemble's own label, Soli Deo Gloria.

36:21

Thomas Adès and the Ruisi Quartet on their new...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/11/28

We're joined for this week's Gramophone Podcast by composer Thomas Adès and two members of the Ruisi Quartet, violinist Alessandro Ruisi and viola player Luba Tunnicliffe, to talk about their recording of Növények, Adès's setting of seven Hungarian poems for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet. They explore this fascinating work with Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford, which is newly released on the Platoon label along with Haydn's String Quartet in G Minor Op 20, No 3, and an arrangement of A legszebb

33:16

Samantha Ege and Leah Broad on Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/11/20

Hattie Butterworth is joined by pianist and historian Samantha Ege and author Leah Broad to discuss the life and music of composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor as the first recording of her orchestral music and piano concerto is released on Resonus

19:54

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä on performing Mahler's Eighth...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/11/07

In May this year, the Concertgebouw – Amsterdam's legendary concert hall – played host to the 2025 Mahler Festival. Originally scheduled for 2000, the centenary of the first such event, but moved back by five years due to the pandemic, the Mahler Festival saw all of Mahler's symphonies performed chronologically over two weeks, and performed by a handful of the world's great orchestras. The Eighth Symphony fell to the local band, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Designate,

23:30

Pianist Mao Fujita on concluding his preludes project

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/28

Mao Fujita, who took second prize in the Piano category at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, released an album on Sony Classical of 72 preludes back in the autumn of 2024 – the three sets of 24 by Chopin, Scriabin and Akio Yashiro. Now as a pendant to that project he has recorded another six, by Ravel, Rachmaninov, Mompou, Franck, Busoni and Alkan. These have been issued individually over the past couple of months, and on November 28 they are all gathered together as an EP. James Jolly caught up

37:00

Composer and author Robin Holloway on celebrating 900...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/28

The composer, academic and writer Robin Holloway has just published a new book, Music's Odyssey, An Invitation to Western Classical Music (Allen Lane). He's Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where James Jolly went to visit him a couple of weeks ago to talk about the book's genesis and aims. The podcast features an excerpt from Holloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra played by the BBC SO conducted by Oliver Knussen on NMC which won Gramophone's Contemporary Music Award in

34:19

Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky on his new album...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/24

The French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has just released a new Erato album of cantatas da camera by Alessandro Scarlatti, Porpora, Galuppi, Handel and Vivaldi, ‘Gelosia!’. On it he also conducts his ensemble Artaserse, which he founded in 2002, and with which he increasingly appears solely as conductor rather than as singer. Gramophone’s James Jolly went to talk to him in Paris about the new album, but also about a major milestone in his musical career, 25 years of making recordings for

34:56

The Hermes Experiment on their new album, Tree

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/20

The Hermes Experiment - an ever-innovative, exploratory and imaginative ensemble - have released their new album, Tree, a meditation on nature, memory and change embracing contemporary composers and reimagined music from the past. Two members of the group, soprano Héloïse Werner and clarinetist Oliver Pashley - who also both have compositions on the album - joined Editor Martin Cullingford in the Gramophone Podcast studio to discuss this beautiful release.

56:50

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025: The Winners

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/17

In this special edition of the Gramophone Podcast, we explore the full list of winners from this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Editor Emeritus James Jolly, Editor Martin Cullingford, Deputy Editor Tim Parry and Editor of Opera Now and Choir & Organ Hattie Butterworth talk through the Category Winners, the Special Awards, and of course the new Recording of the Year – complete with excerpts of every album.

26:20

Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart's symphonies

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/10

For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford travelled to Padua to talk to Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of Il Pomo d'Oro, about recording Mozart symphonies - and specially their latest release of Symphonies Nos 35 and 36, and Violin Concerto No 3 - on period instruments for the Aparté label.

31:17

Tine Thing Helseth on Echoes, her new album of...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/10/02

This week's guest on the Gramophone Podcast is trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Lawo label. Called 'Echoes', it features works by Arutiunian, Penderecki and Weinberg - she talks about the album, as well as her wider work championing her instrument and its repertoire.

41:39

Ian Page on the music of Gluck

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/09/26

In this week's Gramophone Podcast, the conductor Ian Page joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about the music of the 18th-century composer Gluck, setting him in the context of musical developments of his time. The conversation marks the release of the new album from his ensemble The Mozartists - a recording of arias from Gluck operas, sung by Ann Hallenberg, and newly released on Signum Classics.

38:25

Anastasia Kobekina on Bach's Cello Suites |...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/09/19

In this week's Gramophone Podcast, cellist Anastasia Kobekina talks about her new recording of one of the most revered series of works for her instrument - Bach's Solo Cello Suites. While the album isn't released by Sony Classical until next Friday (September 26), three movements are already available as singles, and in this side ranging conversation with Editor Martin Cullingford Kobekina talks about interpreting music from the Baroque through to the present day. The Gramophone Podcast will now be

56:00

Composer John Rutter: a birthday conversation

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/09/10

One of the most-performed composers of our time, Sir John Rutter, celebrates his 80th birthday on September 24. To mark the occasion Harmonia Mundi has released an album of his choral music sung by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross – ‘John Rutter: A Clare College Celebration’. And next week Decca releases an all-orchestral collection, ‘Reflections’, that includes a performance of Rutter’s piano concerto, which gives the album its title. Rutter himself conducts the Royal

28:44

Rowan Pierce on recording Bach, Handel and Vivaldi |...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/09/02

Soprano Rowan Pierce joins Jonathan Whiting to reflect on the intimacy of making chamber-scale Baroque music without a conductor, the challenges of Bach’s expansive recitatives, and the almost operatic drama of Handel’s 'Tra le fiamme'. She also speaks about her long collaboration with Ashley Solomon, the ensemble’s director, and about finding new colours and meaning in these works – music that, though written three centuries ago, resonates with striking relevance today. We were also incredibly

31:49

Composer Jake Heggie on 25 years of writing operas

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/08/29

Composer jake Heggie joins Hattie Butterworth to speak about the recording release of ‘Intelligence’, an opera premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 2023 and out now on the LSO Live label. They also look back on 25 years since Heggie’s first opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ was premiered and ahead to a new production of the work at English National Opera in November

23:58

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on recording new concertos...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/08/22

During the 2024-25 season, Alisa Weilerstein premiered three new cello concertos – Richard Blackford’s The Recovery of Paradise (which she has recorded for Pentatone with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Tomáš Netopil), Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot (recorded for Platoon with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel) and Thomas Larcher’s Returning into Darkness (premiered with the New York Philharmonic). James Jolly caught up with Alisa to talk about the two new recordings and also hear about

36:06

The Dover Quartet on recording Woodland Songs |...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/08/15

Joel and Camden from the Dover Quartet meet Hattie Butterworth in Philadelphia to discuss their latest album, Woodland Songs, which places the music of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and Pura Fé alongside the Dvorak 'American' String Quartet in F Major. Though vastly different works in style, expression, and historical context, they share the common influence of music native to North America.

31:03

Mandolinist Avi Avital on his new album 'Song of the...

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2025/08/08

The mandolin player Avi Avital, with his ensemble Between Worlds, has just released a new DG album ‘Song of the Birds’ which crosses boundaries to explore the musics of three geographical regions – Iberia, southern Italy (Puglia) and the Black Sea – with vivid results. For this week’s Gramophone Podcast, James Jolly caught up Avi Avital while he was on tour in Northern Germany to talk about the new album.

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