Soprano Renée Fleming was the undoubted star of the 1999 edition of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, winning the Recording of the Year and Opera Awards as well as the Recital category ...

Maria Mot: shaping singers’ careers with passion James Jolly Friday, August 8, 2025 This month James Jolly meets the head of one of the most-admired artist management agencies specialising in singers, ...

Bach orchestral transcriptions by Andrew Davis, Bacewicz ‘Orchestral Works, Vol 2’, Ginastera's Three String Quartets, and more ...

Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford’s new album of Dowland and Purcell with the Jupiter ensemble is very much a ‘family’ affair, as they tell Mark Seow ...

As Arvo Pärt enters his tenth decade, Andrew Mellor examines how the worlds of contemporary music, recording, performance practice and geopolitics continue to respond to this most pivotal of figures ...

It’s a staggering achievement, helped partly by Solbrekken’s having written two previous Flagstad books and being an expert in Second World War Norwegian history, as well as being a playwright' ...

Jeremy Nicholas champions an almost forgotten Hungarian pianist who not only worked as teaching assistant to Bartók but also played under some of the great European conductors ...

Arvo Pärt: celebrating the composer at 90; Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford record songs of passion; Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: the top versions ...

Review - ATC SCM20ASL: 'ATCs are all about presence and resolution, really bringing the performances to life' Andrew Everard Friday, August 8, 2025 This British company has an enviable reputation for ...

Review - Aldo Ciccolini’s complete Erato recordings Jed Distler Friday, August 8, 2025 Jed Distler dives into an essential collection issued to mark the pianist’s centenary ...

Debussy’s Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: a guide to the greatest recordings Tim Ashley Friday, August 8, 2025 Debussy’s sensuously beautiful music for D’Annunzio’s ambivalent mystery play has been ...