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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could a composer ask for a more sincere and committed advocate than conductor Andrew Manze? As he releases a new recording with his beloved RLPO, he chats with Andrew Mellor about his many and varied ...

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 ...

New recordings of Bach's organ works (orchestrated by Andrew Davis) and English Suites, Reger's orchestral works, and a ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of 'Shall we gather at the River' by VOCES8, VOCES8 Scholars, VOCES8 Alumni and the BBC Singers arranged by Blake Morgan. This video marks the first day of ...

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 ...

Filmed in a signature single-camera, handheld style, French’s approach brings viewers inside locations such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Henry Wood Hall, and Ehrbar Saal. Accompanying each ...

Online classical concerts & events (September 2025) Charlotte Gardner Friday, August 8, 2025 Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts Making merry: the Berlin Philharmonic Octet ...

Classics Reconsidered: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, conducted by Pierre Dervaux Friday, August 8, 2025 Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan return to the first recording of Poulenc’s Dialogues ...