Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

Featuring a choir, soloists, and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, SC Bach is set to present its namesake's Christmas ...

The Tbilisi Baroque Festival 2025 moves across the city with the steady pulse of a tradition that keeps discovering new ...

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The month we feature new recordings of Strauss's Salome, Shostakovich's piano concertos, CPE Bach's violin sonatas, Elgar's The Kingdom and more Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up ...

Driver’s catalogue of recordings bears witness to the breadth of his repertoire, from Handel to Ligeti. Both composers find their place on a concert programme in the Key Pianists series at Carnegie ...

Soovin Kim remembers studying Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Partita, BWV 1002, for solo violin when he was 10 or 11 years — and his reaction predicted a lifetime surrounded by the music of Bach. “It ...

This year festival director Damian Thantrey and his team have exceeded themselves, with a rich programme also embracing world music, soul music and opera as well as orchestral, choral and chamber ...

The symphonies Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote in Hamburg for Gottfried van Swieten in the 1770s pushed the boundaries of the form. “Seldom has a highly gifted mind poured out music of such superior, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

“I have certainly become more intimate with him over the years. That’s very clear to me. When I was younger, I always used to be afraid of the great master. I used to think: did I do something wrong?

Dancers in balaclavas surprised the audience in Marseille with a performance filled with Bach classics mixed with hip-hop music. A Bach sonata plays on a guitar to introduce a show meant to counter ...