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Paganini from María Dueñas and other forthcoming highlights
31st Dec 2024
The Spanish violinist's second recording for Deutsche Grammophon focuses on the art of the caprice, with other stand-outs for early 2025 including a Lieder recital from Fatma Said and friends, an unaccompanied album from violist Timothy Ridout, and a Ravel anniversary tribute from Seong-Jin Cho.
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2025 Choices
30th Dec 2024
Chris introduces this issue's choices, headed by a 'peerless' recital of Brahms and Schubert from French pianist Alexandre Kantorow on BIS.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2024
27th Dec 2024
Elgar and Walton from Gautier Capuçon, Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra, a collection of fantasias from Margherita Santi, French and Italian opera arias from Pene Pati, and Franco-Flemish polyphony from Graindelavoix.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2024
26th Dec 2024
December heavyweights include collections celebrating Michael Tilson Thomas, Joshua Bell, Irmgard Seefried and George Szell, refreshed Reger and Beethoven editions, and two anthologies from the sound archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
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Benjamin Appl on Christmas in Regensburg
24th Dec 2024
The German baritone discusses returning to his old choir for his new Christmas album on Alpha Classics, and shares some of his childhood memories of the festive season.
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Gavin Bryars on the Ivors and Innovation
23rd Dec 2024
In the wake of winning the Ivors Academy's Innovation Award last month, the Yorkshire-born composer and double bassist speaks to Ben Hogwood about writing for stage and screen, the inspiration which he draws from the visual arts and early music, and why (at the grand old age of 81) he has no plans to slow down any time soon...
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Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic
Philip Jeck (improvising turntablist), Quartet I: Nick Barr, Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass), Quartet II: Alexandra Maria Tchernakova (viola), Orlanda Bryars (cello), Ziella Bryars (cello), Yuri Bryars (double bass), Roger Heaton (bass clarinet), Dave Smith (tenor horn, keyboard, woodblocks), James Woodrow (electric guitar), Martin Allen (percussion)
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Barrie Kosky's phantasmagorical Fledermaus from Munich
20th Dec 2024
Georg Nigl, Diana Damrau and Katharina Konradi lead a stellar cast in the maverick Australian director's fever-dream production of Johann Strauss II's operetta about disguise, revenge and champagne, filmed last Christmas at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Vladimir Jurowski conducting.
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New Releases from Winter 2024
20th Dec 2024
Schubert Lieder from Philippe Jaroussky and Jérôme Ducros, Yuletide Treats from Duo Pleyel, Bruckner piano works from Mari Kodama, and a Bach-inspired recital from accordionist Ksenija Sidorova.
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Robert Treviño on American Opus
19th Dec 2024
The American conductor discusses his new album of works by George Walker, George Crumb and Silvestre Revueltas with the Basque National Orchestra, released on Ondine last month and described as 'thoroughly satisfying' by Limelight Magazine.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2024
18th Dec 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'open-hearted, elastic and generously phrased' Brahms cello sonatas from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan on Pentatone.
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Pene Pati on Rodolfo (and rugby!)
17th Dec 2024
As he makes his Covent Garden debut in Puccini's La bohème, the ebullient Samoan tenor discusses why he finds Puccini's impoverished poet such a relatable character, playing for the Cardiff Saracens when he moved from New Zealand to study in Wales, and how Kiri Te Kanawa helped to kickstart his international career.
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Trio Bohémo on their debut recording of Smetana and Schubert
16th Dec 2024
The trio's members discuss the two composers featured on their critically acclaimed debut recording.
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Tippett from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
13th Dec 2024
Teeming with detail and infectious energy, these live recordings make superb cases for two works from the mid-1950s which had rocky starts in life: the Piano Concerto (with Steven Osborne on clear-headed form) and Symphony No. 2.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th December 2024
13th Dec 2024
Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie from Andris Nelsons in Boston, Bellini's I puritani starring Lisette Oropesa & Lawrence Brownlee, a Smetana bicentenary celebration from Petr Popelka in Prague, and the debut album from Lucy Illingworth (winner of Channel 4's The Piano).
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Bellini: I Puritani
Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbo), Lisette Oropesa (Elvira), Anthony Clark Evans (Sir Riccardo Forth), Riccardo Zanellato (Sir Giorgio Valton), Roxana Constantinescu (Enrichetta di Francia) Dresdner Philharmonie, MDR-Rundfunkchor, Riccardo Frizza
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Debbie Wiseman on The Mirror and the Light
11th Dec 2024
With Peter Kosminsky's dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's towering Tudor trilogy set to draw to a harrowing close on Sunday evening, the composer of the soundtrack discusses finding the delicate balance between past and present - and bringing the inner workings of the inscrutable Thomas Cromwell's mind to life in music...
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The Piatti Quartet on the string quartets of Joseph Phibbs
10th Dec 2024
The acclaimed quartet consider the works of contemporary composer Joseph Phibbs, with whom they share a close connection - having commissioned two of his four quartets and now recorded them all.
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François-Xavier Poizat on Ravel
9th Dec 2024
François-Xavier Poizat offers an insight into his love for Ravel, and his recordings of the composer's Complete Works with Piano (released earlier in November on Aparté). He also shares his admiration for Henle's painstaking work on their edition of Ravel's music.
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Festive Rutter from the Black Dyke Band and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
6th Dec 2024
The soundworlds of the brass band and the massed chorus combine in a glorious celebration of the Christmas music of John Rutter.
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Christmas New Releases 2024
6th Dec 2024
A festive programme built around Palestrina from The Bevan Family Consort, music for Christmas and winter by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Vaughan Williams's Carols From Herefordshire (in two different versions), and a new Christmas oratorio from Gabriel Jackson.
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Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort
Daisy Bevan (soprano), Agnes Bevan (soprano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Tess Bevan (vocalist), Lizzy Bevan (vocalist), Francis Bevan (vocalist), Dom Bevan (tenor), Harry Bevan (tenor), David Bevan (baritone), Henry Bevan (baritone), Hugh Bevan (bass-baritone), Benny Bevan (bass-baritone), Michael Bevan (bass-baritone), Dominic Bevan (tenor), Bevan Family Consort, Graham Ross
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Recordings of the Year 2024 - Our Top 10
5th Dec 2024
The winners revealed - ten fantastic recordings which really stood out from the crowd for us over the past twelve months, plus the results of our six special category awards...
