Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

20 Years of VOCES8 with co-founders Paul & Barnaby Smith and soprano Andrea Haines

Conductor Andris Nelsons on the influence of Shostakovich

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at 100: Richard Wigmore discusses the great baritone's Winterreise recordings

Masaaki and Masato Suzuki on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem

Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin on returning to Scriabin's music

Kahchun Wong on The Hallé and Bruckner's Ninth

Cellist Zlatomir Fung on his debut recording of opera fantasies

Conductor Alan Gilbert on Brahms and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Leif Ove Andsnes on Liszt's Via Crucis

Jessica Duchen on the life of pianist Myra Hess

James Ehnes on Bach's complete violin concertos

Attacca Quartet on Ravel and relationships

Anna Dennis and Julian Perkins on John Weldon's The Judgment of Paris

Anna Dennis and Julian Perkins on John Weldon's The Judgment of Paris

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou on his 'Ravel Fragments' album

Ian Bostridge and Saskia Georgini on Schumann songs

Nevermind on Bach's Goldberg Variations

Baritone Benjamin Appl on his collaboration with György Kurtág

María Dueñas on Paganini's Caprices

Pianist Samson Tsoy on his debut solo album, 'Inmost Heart'

Fatma Said on lieder and friendship

Pianist Dmitry Masleev on his Dies irae-themed Liszt & Rachmaninov album

Seong-Jin Cho on Ravel's piano music

James McVinnie on his new album, Dreamcatcher

Pianists Yevgeny Sudbin and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in conversation with James Jolly

Charles Villiers Stanford: Jeremy Dibble on the composer's music

Conductor William Christie: An 80th birthday conversation

Rob Cowan on George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra Beethoven symphonies

Benjamin Nicholas on Gabriel Jackson's The Christmas Story

Thélème's Director Jean-Christophe Groffe on pairing John Dowland and John Cage

Pianist Charles Owen on 'The Young Schumann'

Alec Frank-Gemmill on Mozart's horn concertos

Pianist Alexandre Kantorow on his new Brahms, Schubert and Liszt album

Pianist Hanni Liang on her new album 'Voices'

Handel in Rome, with Nardus Williams and John Butt

Rafael Payare on the music of Schoenberg

The 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Claire Booth on the character of Pierrot

Mendelssohn Piano Trios, with Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk and Steven Isserlis

Baritone Huw Montague Rendall on his debut album 'Contemplation'

Celebrating 50 years of BIS: Part 2

Semyon Bychkov on the music of Dvořák

Celebrating 50 years of BIS: Part 1

Bryce Dessner on his new album 'Solos'

Composer Anna Clyne on her new album 'Shorthand'

Alexandra Dariescu on the piano concertos of Clara Schumann and Edvard Grieg

Leonard Bernstein the Composer – with Edward Seckerson

Karajan's video legacy - with Richard Osborne

Podcast revisited: Rob Cowan on listening to historic recordings

Soprano Sophie Bevan on overcoming adversity

Dalia's Mixtape: Judith Weir's 'Still, Glowing'

Harry Christophers at 70: The Sixteen's founder on a life in music

Héloïse Werner on her new album 'Close-ups'

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy on their piano four-hands debut album

Magdalena Kožená on her new album 'Czech Songs'

Nicholas Phan on 'A Change is Gonna Come'

Cellist Laura van der Heijden on her debut concerto release

Can Çakmur on Schubert and Krenek

Andrè Schuen on Schubert's Winterreise

Antonello Manacorda on Beethoven's Ninth at 200

Brindley Sherratt on his debut song recital 'Fear No More'

James Ehnes on Leonard Bernstein and John Williams

Nathan Williamson and James Gilchrist on the songs of Thomas Pitfield

Kirill Gerstein on 'Music in the Time of War'

Klaus Mäkelä on recording Stravinsky in Paris: From the Archive

Exploring Schubert

Paavo Järvi on Mendelssohn's symphonies

Rebecca Dale on her new album 'Night Seasons'

Dalia's Mixtape: Anna Meredith's Nautilus

The 12 Ensemble's new album, Metamorphosis

Handel's Theodora, with Jonathan Cohen

Alessandro Fisher on 'A Gardener's World'

Lara Downes on Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined

Edmund Finnis and Clare Hammond on recording Youth

Timothy Ridout on 'A Lionel Tertis Celebration'

Krystian Zimerman on Szymanowski, conducting and retirement

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood on 'Handel for Trumpet'

From the Archive: Peter Phillips on the music of Josquin

Dame Janet Baker – a great singer reflects on her career

Esa-Pekka Salonen on music in California

Owain Park on the new album from The Gesualdo Six, 'Morning Star'

Editors' Choice 2023

Maria Callas: we celebrate La Divina on her 100th anniversary

Errollyn Wallen on her new book 'Becoming a Composer'

John Pickard on Mass in Troubled Times

Bertrand Chamayou on his John Cage-Erik Satie album

Richard Bratby on his history of the Academy of Ancient Music, Refiner's Fire

Fauré's music for cello and piano

Bach's Goldberg Variations Reimagined with Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly

Miloš on his new album 'Baroque'

Johan Dalene on his new album, Stained Glass

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023: the winners

Exploring Dvořák's piano trios

Jeremy Eichler on his new book 'Time's Echo'

Parry's Prometheus Unbound, with William Vann

Decca Icons: Benjamin Britten

Exploring Shostakovich

Decca Icons: Sir Georg Solti

Jennifer Higdon on her Duo Duel and Concerto for Orchestra

Rachel Barton Pine on links between classical and metal music

Decca Icons: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Tan Dun on his 'Buddha Passion'

Hyperion Records: we explore the label's Award-winning history

Decca Icons: Bernard Haitink

Rob Cowan on listening to historic recordings

Kenneth Fuchs on his first Chandos album with John Wilson

Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 - the nominees, Part 2, with Rob Cowan

Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2023 - the nominees, Part 1, with Andrew Mellor

Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu on 'Forbidden Fruit'

Handel: a podcast portrait

Richard Boothby on his new album 'Music to hear...'

Lawrence Brownlee on his new album, Rising

Reginald Mobley on his new album, 'Because'

Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

Edward Gardner: celebrating Chandos, Gramophone's Label of the Year

Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe on 'Broken Branches'

James Newby on 'Fallen to Dust', an English song recital

Alexander Chance on English lute songs

Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante’s Il Proscritto

Cédric Tiberghien on piano variations by Beethoven … and more

Raphaël Feuillâtre on Baroque music for guitar

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: celebrating Chandos, our Label of the Year

The Tippett Quartet on the music of Korngold

Klaus Mäkelä on recording Stravinsky in Paris

Rachel Willis-Sørensen on Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs

Rafael Payare on Mahler from Montreal

Lucile Richardot on Scarlatti and the songs of Nadia and Lili Boulanger

Exploring the music of Liszt

Stephen Hough on Mompou and his new book

Frank Dupree on championing Nikolai Kapustin

John Wilson: Celebrating Gramophone's Label of the Year, Chandos

Rosalind Ventris on her new album 'SOLA'

The Art of Musicals

Exploring Handel

Celebrating Gramophone's Label of the Year, Chandos, with Ralph Couzens and Brian Pidgeon

Daniel Hyde on King's College, Cambridge's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Editor's Choice 2022 – Our favourite albums of the year

Nigel Short on Tenebrae's new Christmas album

Mark Bebbington on Vaughan Williams and the piano

Celebrating Gramophone's Label of the Year, Chandos, with Tasmin Little

Gianandrea Noseda on the music of George Walker

Michael Spyres on Berlioz's les nuits d'été

Ruby Hughes on her new album 'Echo'

Clare Hammond on Hélène de Montgeroult

Celebrating Gramophone's Label of the Year, Chandos, with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández

Mason Bates on Philharmonia Fantastique

Xavier de Maistre on recording two 20th-century harp concertos

Amanda Lee Falkenberg and Marin Alsop on The Moons Symphony

Sharon Bezaly on her new album, ‘Synergy’

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022

Ludovic Tézier on his album of opera duets with Jonas Kaufmann, 'Insieme'

Remembering Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Lucie Horsch on her new album, Origins

Bjarte Eike on The Playhouse Sessions

Plínio Fernandes on his album, Saudade

Exploring the music of Mahler

Jonathan Tetelman on his debut album 'Arias'

A Gramophone Archive Podcast: Víkingur Ólafsson on 'Mozart & Contemporaries'

A Gramophone Archive Podcast: Andrew Nethsingha on the new album from St John's College, Cambridge

Paul Paray: The art of the great conductor

Orchestra of the Year 2022: The Nominees Part 2

Orchestra of the Year 2022: The Nominees Part 1

Nicholas Phan and Nico Muhly on the genesis of 'Stranger'

Andrew Mellor on his new book on Nordic culture, 'The Northern Silence'

Liszt's piano music, with Alexander Ullman

James Ehnes on his string quartet and recording late Beethoven

Bridget Cunningham on Handel's Caio Fabbricio

John Williams on writing a new violin concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter

Helen Charlston on her first solo album, 'Battle Cry: She Speaks'

Cyrille Dubois on recording the complete Fauré songs

Anne Akiko Meyers on her new album, 'Shining Night'

Jakub Józef Orliński on his Polish song album, 'Farewells'

Anne Dudley on how a new piano inspired her lockdown album

Emmanuelle Haïm on 20 years of Le Concert d’Astrée

A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Exploring the genius of JS Bach

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on Mozart on piano concertos

Introducing the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Osmo Vänskä on the Minnesota Orchestra, Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year

Paul Hillier on Jóhann Jóhannsson's Drone Mass

Nadine Sierra on her new album 'Made for Opera'

Martin James Bartlett on his new Gershwin and Rachmaninov album, 'Rhapsody'

François-Xavier Roth on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

Exploring Mozart

Daniel Hope on 'America', his new album

Leonidas Kavakos on Bach's solo violin suites

Gramophone Podcast: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 5

Elgar's Cello Concerto: a Gramophone Podcast revisited

A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Bernstein in Rome

A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Dame Emma Kirkby

A Gramophone Podcast revisited: Sir Thomas Allen on the Great American Songbook

Our favourite albums of 2021

Aleksandra Kurzak on Mozart 'Concertante'

Marin Alsop on Hindemith, Vienna and a new chapter

Andrew Nethsingha on the new album from St John's

Jeanine De Bique in her new album of Baroque heroines, 'Mirrors'

Philippe Jaroussky on his new album, À sa guitare

Remembering Bernard Haitink

Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, with Fabio Biondi

The Bach Cello Suites: Steven Isserlis

The Gramophone Awards Podcast: celebrating the winners

Celebrating Carl Nielsen with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

The Gramophone Awards: the recording category winners

Charles Owen on the Swiss book of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage

Jean-Yves Thibaudet on ‘Carte blanche’

Víkingur Ólafsson on 'Mozart & Contemporaries'

Lucas Debargue on the magical music of Miłosz Magin

Sean Shibe on his new album 'Camino'

Jan Lisiecki on Chopin's Nocturnes

Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2021: The Nominees, Part 2

Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2021: The Nominees, Part 1

The BBC Proms 2021

Nicola Benedetti on Baroque Music, education and Edinburgh

Kit Armstrong on playing Byrd and Bull on the piano

Angela Hewitt on her new album, Love Songs

Randall Goosby on his new album Roots

Yannick Nézet-Séguin on his solo piano album, 'Introspection'

John Wilson on his new Henri Dutilleux album

Lise de la Salle on her new album 'When do we dance?'

Kate Lindsey on Nero and her new album ‘Tiranno’

Tine Thing Helseth on music for trumpet and organ

Ben Goldscheider on Dennis Brain

Jennifer Johnston on Munich, Liverpool & when the music stopped

Sir Nicholas Kenyon on his new book, The Life of Music

Joyce DiDonato on Schubert's Winterreise

Sir Antonio Pappano on music-making in the time of Covid

Adam Walker on French music for flute

Anna Lucia Richter on Monteverdi and becoming a mezzo

Peter Jablonski on the piano music of Alexei Stanchinsky

Exploring the genius of JS Bach

Francesca Dego on playing Paganini's violin

Jodie Devos on her English song album, 'And Love Said …'

Ksenija Sidorova on Piazzolla and the accordion

Benjamin Grosvenor on the piano music of Liszt

Composer Raymond Yiu on his debut orchestral album

Beethoven's Fifth: interpreting genius

Daniel Hope on the music of Alfred Schnittke

Stephen Hough on his new album, 'Vida Breve'

Joseph Middleton on playing for singers

'Contralto': Nathalie Stutzmann on singing and conducting

Dame Evelyn Glennie on new concertos for percussion

Alfred Brendel at 90

Gil Rose on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Gramophone's editors on their favourite recordings of 2020

The music of Britten, with David Temple

Christian-Pierre La Marca on 'Cello 360'

Mark Simpson on composing and Mozart

Cyrus Meher-Homji on the Eloquence label at 21

Paul Wee on Thalberg's piano music

Anna Clyne on 'Mythologies'

Anna Lapwood on Pembroke's new album 'All Things Are Quite Silent'

Richard Egarr on Dussek's Messe Solemnelle

Alexandre Bloch on recording Mahler in Lille

Gramophone Awards 2020 - The Winners, Part 2

Ermonela Jaho on the legacy of Rosina Storchio

Joseph Calleja on the Magic of Mantovani

Gramophone Classical Music Awards - the recording category winners

Jess Gillam on her new album, Time

James MacMillan's organ music: Stephen Farr

Santtu-Matias Rouvali on Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake

Eric Whitacre on The Sacred Veil

Alondra de la Parra on The Impossible Orchestra

Robin Ticciati on conducting Richard Strauss

Xuefei Yang on Sketches of China

Max Richter on Voices, his new album

David Skinner on the music of John Sheppard

Orchestra of the Year 2020 – the nominees, Part 2

Orchestra of the Year 2020 - the nominees, Part 1

Barnaby Smith on Voces8's new album

Inbal Segev and Marin Alsop on cello concertos by Anna Clyne and Edward Elgar

Exploring Beethoven's violin sonatas

Stephen Johnson on Mahler's Symphony No 8

Conductor Nicholas Collon on his new 'Music of the Spheres' album

Robert Trevino on Beethoven Symphonies

Martin Fröst on Vivaldi for the clarinet

Sharon Isbin on recording new music for guitar

Gabriel Prokofiev on his Concerto for Turntables No 1

Paul McCreesh on Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Natalya Romaniw and Lada Valešová on Slavic songs

Vasily Petrenko on conducting Elgar

Sarah Traubel on Mozart's first Queen of the Night

Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian on Beethoven's piano trios

Music for Tenebrae, with Julia Doyle and Grace Davidson

Barbara Hannigan on Nono, Haydn and Grisey

Jack Liebeck on the Brahms and Schoenberg violin concertos

Ballet on screen - an introduction

Johannes Pramsohler on the life and music of Pieter Hellendaal

Eric Lu on his new solo piano album

Paavo Järvi on working with his NHK Symphony Orchestra

Masaaki Suzuki on returning to Bach's St Matthew Passion

The King's Singers on Finding Harmony

José Serebrier on writing his concertos for piano and flute

Mary Bevan on singing Haydn, Schubert and Wolf

Ruby Hughes on Rhian Samuel’s Clytemnestra

Louise Alder: The Russian Connection

Stephen Hough on Brahms's late piano music

Rachel Portman on Mimi and the Mountain Dragon

Freddy Kempf on Prokofiev

Alison Balsom: music for natural trumpet

Stile Antico on music for a Spanish Christmas

Norma Fisher: a life in music

Stephen Cleobury on the music of Howells

Maxim Emelyanychev on Schubert and the Scottish CO

Peter Phillips: the music of Josquin

Brahms's First Piano Concerto: Lars Vogt

Jonathan Biss on the Beethoven piano sonatas

Elgar's Cello Concerto: Julian Lloyd Webber

Liszt's piano music: Joseph Moog

Gramophone Awards 2019: the winners

Beethoven's piano concertos: Boris Giltburg

Beethoven's piano sonatas: Igor Levit

Jan Lisiecki on the Beethoven piano concertos

Gramophone Awards 2019 shortlist: episode 3

The Gramophone Awards shortlist: episode two

Explore the Gramophone Awards shortlist

Gramophone Podcast: Jasper Parrott

Thomas Trotter: music of Georgian London

Composer Danny Elfman

Orchestra of the Year Award: episode 3

Orchestra of the Year Award: episode 2

Orchestra of the Year Award: episode 1

Nicky Spence: on Janáček and Turnage

Isata Kanneh-Mason on Clara Schumann

Edward Gardner on Mendelssohn and Brahms

Hugo Ticciati on chaconnes and tradition

John Tavener's The Protecting Veil: cellist Matthew Barley

King's College, Cambridge: Stephen Cleobury on Howells

Lise Davidsen: on Wagner and Richard Strauss

Michael Fabiano: Donizetti and Verdi

Andrew Nethsingha: music at St John's College, Cambridge

Gerald Finley: the music of Kaija Saariaho

Schumann and song: Julian Prégardien

Amy Dickson on 'In Circles'

The BBC Proms 2019

Colin Currie on the music of Steve Reich

Brahms and Ligeti: Augustin Hadelich

Carolyn Sampson: 'Reason in Madness'

Bach's violin concertos: Isabelle Faust

Madeleine Mitchell: the chamber music of Grace Williams

The Romantic clarinet: Andreas Ottensamer

Lucie Horsch: a Baroque Journey

Dame Emma Kirkby: a birthday podcast

Harry Christophers: Handel's Acis and Galatea

Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn's piano music

Hilary Hahn on recording Bach

Haydn piano sonatas: Roman Rabinovich

Christian Gerhaher: Schumann the song composer

Jennifer Pike: the Polish Violin

Harmonia Mundi: Gramophone's Label of the Year

Steven Isserlis at 60

St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge at 10

Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia's Day, with John Butt

Brahms's late piano music: Charles Owen

Violinist Nikolaj Znaider

Clarinettist Julian Bliss

Remembering Birgit Nilsson

Montserrat Caballé, Bach, and Rachmaninov

Sir Thomas Allen: September Songs

The Gramophone Awards

Mullova records Pärt, Pappano records Bernstein, and Jaap Van Zweden

Bernstein in Rome