The Tippett Quartet on the music of Korngold

In this week's edition of the Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford was joined by conductor Sir Mark Elder and composer Huw Watkins to talk about the Hallé's new recording of Watkins's orchestral music, featuring his Symphony No 2, Concerto for Orchestra and Fanfare, all w ...  Show more

For this episode, we're joined by conductor Edward Gardner, who talks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about his new recording of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra, which is newly released on the Chandos label. Recorded by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, and wit ...  Show more

The award-winning Irish quartet performs three songs from its latest album, The Livelong Day, at the Tiny Desk.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage ...  Show more

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero chooses the Schumann Fantasie performed by Clifford Curzon and Quintet Opus 18 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, performed by the Borodin Quartet

Synopsis On today’s date in 1995, the four members of the Arditti String Quartet entered four helicopters warming up their engines at an airfield in Holland. Followed by video cameras, each player’s image and audio was relayed to huge video displays and loudspeakers on the ground ...  Show more

Eigentlich wurde es ja mal fürs Orchester erfunden, das Saxophon. Klanglich sollte es zwischen der schneidenden Oboe und der wärmenden Klarinette liegen. Aber es hat dann doch lieber eine rasante Solokarriere hingelegt, vor allem im Jazz. Es kann aber auch richtig klassische Kamm ...  Show more