Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

The violinist Jennifer Pike tells James Jolly about her new album on Chandos called 'The Polish Violin', for which she's joined by the pianist Petr Limonov. It features music by Henryk Wieniawski, Karol Szymanowski, Moritz Moszkowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

We profile our 2018 label of the year - Harmonia Mundi. Editor Martin Cullingford spent time last summer in Arles, the label's home in the South of France, and spoke to various artists - both established and newly-signed - and the label head Christian Girardin about what Harmonia Mundi and indeed recording itself means to them.

A special celebratory conversation between cellist Steven Isserlis and Editor-in-Chief James Jolly which explores - among many topics - the nature of recording, the music of John Tavener, cellists of the past and gut strings.

Cambridge is a city famed for its world-leading choirs of boy choristers - but ten years ago, St Catharine's College founded the first college-based choir for girls. In the latest Gramophone podcast the Music Director Edward Wickham talks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about that first decade, and about the choir's new recording 'Sing Levy Dew', a beautiful programme of music for upper voices by contemporary and 20th century composers, released on the Resonus Classics label.

Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford interviews the Dunedin Consort's music director John Butt about his new recording of Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day, a celebration and exploration of the art of music itself, on Linn.

The pianist Charles Owen has recently released a two-CD set of Brahms's late piano music (the Opp 76 and 79, as well as Opp 116-9 pieces) on Avie, also available to stream and download. James Jolly caught up with Charles recently for a Gramophone Podcast to talk about Brahms and these miniatures of his later life.

Violinist Nikolaj Znaider talks to Gramophone's James Jolly about recording Mozart for LSO Live, and about the Carl Nielsen International Competition.

Clarinettist Julian Bliss talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about his new recording of the Mozart and Weber clarinet quintets with the Carducci String Quartet on Signum Classics. He also discusses his love of jazz, and about helping design a new clarinet.

The centenary of the birth of the great Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson fell in May and the Birgit Nilsson Foundation has overseen various commemorative projects including a DVD and a 31-CD set of Nilsson's greatest roles recorded live and issued by Sony Classical. And 2018 also saw another musician honoured with the Birgit Nilsson Prize, the soprano Nina Stemme. James Jolly caught up with Rutbert Reisch, the President of the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, in Stockholm and talked to him about the singer and her extraordinary career as documented on the live recordings.

Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford and Editor in Chief James Jolly pay tribute to the great soprano Montserrat Caballé, discuss the music of Bach, and enjoy some of the best new classical releases - including a remarkable recording of Rachmaninov playing his own music.