From Early Music to Contemporary, we discuss the 11 extraordinary recordings - plus, listen to excerpts This year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards are presented with Apple Music, E.Gutzwiller and ...

Imogen Cooper announces her final performance year and discusses her new Beethoven album on Chandos Records The celebrated pianist Dame Imogen Cooper recently announced that the coming year will be ...

This is my first Gramophone Classical Music Awards as editor of the magazine, though my 11th as a member of the editorial team. In each of these years, as I’ve watched the vast numbers of recordings ...

If awards are to be worth anything, those bestowing the accolades must be able to proclaim proudly that they offer to the wider world an account of the very best. We’re confident that we do. The ...

The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to bring high-quality sound into your life? An occupational hazard of being considered someone who knows ...

This month's Gramophone Recording of the Month is Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and La mort de Cléopâtre featuring mezzo Karen Cargill, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and conductor Robin Ticciati (you can ...

In this month’s cover feature we explore what recording means to a generation of young artists who have embraced the medium, creating albums whose variety, musical richness and technical excellence ...

Panic, outrage, consternation. All three greeted Gramophone readers in March 1949. The reason? A good old-fashioned format change. ‘I ask readers if they really want to feel that their collections are ...

Il trovatore has long enjoyed the reputation of being an opera whose plot thoroughly confuses audiences the world over, but no matter, the tunes invariably carry the evening and everyone present has a ...

This book deserves to be snapped up by any lover of British music – and its renaissance that Foreman himself has done so much to energise This is a remarkable chronicle of the rediscovery of British ...