The 68 th Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles last night. One of the big winners included Gabriela Ortiz’s album Yanga ...

William Marsey has won the Music Award at the Fellow of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026, receiving a £20,000 prize. This award recognises exceptional composers scoring contemporary classical ...

Mark Pullinger and Alexandra Coghlan mull over the 1959 stereo studio recording of Don Giovanni conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini ...

It takes a strong constitution to tackle the third part of JS Bach’s monumental ‘Keyboard Practice’, which, on a superficial ...

This debut recording from the current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble makes for a very handsome calling card ...

So many orchestrations of Schubert’s songs leave them all too comfortably upholstered. Not so Hans Zender’s chilling ...

Listeners will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninth recordings but here is one that demands to be heard.

If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured ...

The Gothic Symphony (1919 27) might yet set a record not only for its logistics but also the number of live performances, ...

Jed Distler reads a majestic book on Beethoven’s chamber music: ‘Donat unwraps the complex layers of Beethoven’s ...

The Cliburn announces the launch of a new program: the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors. Taking place in June 2028 in Houston, Texas, in partnership with the Houston Symphony and the ...

Hugo Shirley enjoys a great artist’s musings on the art of song and singing: ‘The personal nature of Gerhaher’s thoughts is ...