Best Gramophone Podcasts (2025)

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Conductor John Andrews on recording The Seal Woman 42:10

6d ago42:10

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Conductor John Andrews joins Hattie Butterworth to speak about the debut recording of Sir Granville Bantock and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s folk opera, The Seal Woman. They explore the folk song collecting of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, as well as Andrews’s commitment to uncovering lesser-known repertoire

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EARL OKIN's AMAZING GRAMOPHONE AHOW No.191

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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No.191. To download or listen, please click HERE... (1)One, Two, Button My Shoe – Johnston/Burke. HENRY HALL & BBC Dance Orchestra. (2) LA TRAVIATA – Verdi. Addio Del Passato. ROSALIA CHALIA. (3) Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend – Fragson. HARRY FRAGSON. (4) Nagasaki – Warren/Dixon. LEW STONE Orchestra (with Nat Gone…

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Mezzo Kitty Whately on unknown French song 28:52

14d ago28:52

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Kitty Whately joins Hattie Butterworth to discuss her new album on Chandos with pianist Edwige Herchenroder titled Horizons: French Melodies. They also explore the historic erasure of women composers, as well as Kitty's ongoing advocacy and research

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20 Years of VOCES8 with co-founders Paul & Barnaby Smith and soprano Andrea Haines 39:56

20d ago39:56

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The vocal ensemble VOCES8 are marking their 20th anniversay with a new release – out today – celebrating the full breadth of their creativity, and an exciting season of concerts. Editor Martin Cullingford sat down with three of the key figures behind this most innovative of ensembles – the co-founders Barnaby Smith, Artistic Director, and Paul Smit…

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Conductor Andris Nelsons on the influence of Shostakovich 36:25

27d ago36:25

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This week’s Gramophone podcast is a special focus on one of the most significant of 20th century composers, Dimitri Shostakovich, the 50th anniversary of whose death we mark this year. As our guide to his music we’re privileged to have conductor Andris Nelsons, who, together with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has just reached the end of a journey …

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at 100: Richard Wigmore discusses the great baritone's Winterreise recordings 49:44

1M ago49:44

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The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 100th birthday falls on May 28. One of the most versatile singers of the last century – his operatic repertoire alone ranged from Gluck, Handel and Mozart via Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss to Berg, Busoni and Reimann – it's his devotion to song that remains his lasting legacy. To mark the anniversa…

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Masaaki and Masato Suzuki on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem 27:38

1M ago27:38

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In this week's episode, Editor Martin Cullingford met with the founder and Music Director of Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, along with the group's Principal Conductor Masato Suzuki, to talk about their new recording of Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, available now on BIS – as well as discussing Bach's St John Passion, which they had performed…

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Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin on returning to Scriabin's music 26:35

2M ago26:35

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In 2007, Yevgeny Sudbin released an album of music by Alexander Scriabin. Reviewing it in Gramophone, Bryce Morrison described it as a 'disc in a million'. Now, Sudbin has returned to the composer for his 25th recording for BIS, and offers a wide-ranging survey of music that includes two more of the piano sonatas. James Jolly caught up with Yevgeny…

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Kahchun Wong on The Hallé and Bruckner's Ninth 38:43

2M ago38:43

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In this week's episode of the Gramophone Classical Music Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the Principal Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Kahchun Wong, to talk about the orchestra's relationship with its home city, Manchester, and their new recording of Bruckner's Symphony No 9.

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EARL OKIN'S AMAZING GRAMOPHONE SHOW No. 190.

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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No. 190. To listen or download, click HERE... (1) Summer Blouses – Murray/Hilbury. VESTA VICTORIA. (2) The Sheik Of Araby – Snyder/Smith/Wheeler. KEN 'Snakehips' JOHNSON ORCH. (3) Night – Rubinstein. MEDEA MEI-FIGNER. (4) When I Wants To See Myself/It's So Simple - ???. CHARLES COBURN. (5) Blue Moon – Rodgers/Hart. AL BO…

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Cellist Zlatomir Fung on his debut recording of opera fantasies 25:16

2M ago25:16

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Zlatomir Fung won the Cello category of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and also has an enviable collection of other cello awards and prizes to his name. He was a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Winner in 2022 and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2020. His debut recording, ‘Fantasies’, is just out from Signum and on it …

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Conductor Alan Gilbert on Brahms and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra 28:21

2M ago28:21

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Alan Gilbert is Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with him during a run of Wagner’s Die Walküre in Stockholm, where he lives. They talked about his Hamburg-based orchestra, the role today of a radio orchestra and also about the work orchestr…

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Leif Ove Andsnes on Liszt's Via Crucis 37:38

3M ago37:38

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In this episode, Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford talks to pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about his new recording on Sony Classical of the extraordinary work Via Crucis by Franz Liszt, the composer's deeply spiritual meditations on the Stations of the Cross, released just before the start of Holy Week. This week's podcast is produced in association…

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Jessica Duchen on the life of pianist Myra Hess 30:20

3M ago30:20

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This week journalist and author Jessica Duchen joins Holly Baker to talk about her new book Myra Hess - National Treasure, which is out now on Kahn & Averill. Extracts of music on the podcast come from the album 'Myra Hess - The complete solo and concerto studio recordings' on APR Records

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EARL OKIN'S AMAZING GRAMOPHONE SHOW No.189.

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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show. No 189. To listen or download, please click HERE. (1) TURANDOT – Puccini. Nessun Dorma. ALFRED PICCAVER. (2)Ain't Misbehaving – Waller. ARTHUR STRONG. (3) I'm Henery The Eighth I Am – Murray Weston. HARRY CHAMPION. (4) TURANDOT – Puccini. Non Piangere Liu. JOSEPH SCHMIDT. (5) Black Bottom/Birth Of The Blues – De Sylva, …

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James Ehnes on Bach's complete violin concertos 32:42

3M ago32:42

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This week violinist James Ehnes joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk about his new recording of Bach's complete violin concertos, recorded with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, and released on the Analeketa label.

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Attacca Quartet on Ravel and relationships 40:33

3M ago40:33

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The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet has seen stratospheric success in recent years across new and popular music collaborations. Hattie Butterworth meets the group as their debut album with Platoon of Ravel's String Quartet is released. Music clips: Ravel String Quartet – Platoon PLAT26294 Entr'acte by Caroline Shaw from Orange – Nones…

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Anna Dennis and Julian Perkins on John Weldon's The Judgment of Paris 30:57

3M ago30:57

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John Weldon, born in 1676, was an English composer and pupil of Henry Purcell. Keyboardist Julian Perkins and soprano Anna Dennis join Hattie Butterworth to discuss the world premiere recording of Weldon's opera 'The Judgment of Paris', recorded by the Academy of Ancient Music and Cambridge Handel Opera…

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Pianist Bertrand Chamayou on his 'Ravel Fragments' album 30:23

4M ago30:23

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Maurice Ravel was born 150 years ago, on March 7, 1875, and he is the subject of numerous tributes this season. Bertrand Chamayou recorded the complete piano works ten years ago for Erato ('No one who loves French music or exquisite piano-playing will want to miss this' wrote Patrick Rucker in Gramophone), a set that incidentally has just been rele…

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EARL OKIN'S AMAZING GRAMOPHONE SHOW. No.188.

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EARL OKIN'S GRAMOPHONE SHOW. No.188. To listen or download, please click HERE... (1) Mickey's Son And Daughter – Lisbonna/Connor. BONZO DOG DOO-DA BAND. (2) DON CARLOS – Verdi. Tu Che La Vanita. ADELINA AGOSTINELLI. (3) When She Sees Me In My Sunday Suit-Thurban/Ellerton. LITTLE TICH. (4) Mountain Greenery – Rodgers/Hart. ROGER WOLFE KAHN. (5) RIGO…

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Ian Bostridge and Saskia Georgini on Schumann songs 29:25

4M ago29:25

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Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Saskia Georgini join Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford this week to talk about their new album of Schumann Songs, Twilight, released on the Pentatone label.

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Nevermind on Bach's Goldberg Variations 21:23

4M ago21:23

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For this edition of the Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford was joined by three of the four members of the French ensemble Nevermind - flute player Anna Besson, viola da gamba player Robin Pharo and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau - to talk about the group's new creative exploration of Bach's Goldberg Variations, newly released on the Alpha la…

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Baritone Benjamin Appl on his collaboration with György Kurtág 25:24

4M ago25:24

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The baritone Benjamin Appl has recorded an album for Alpha that combines the music of György Kurtág with that of Franz Schubert. 'Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág' is the result of a long process that started with Kurtág choosing the singer for this unique project and working with him on the music, and finally producing the recording - and even pla…

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María Dueñas on Paganini's Caprices 19:48

4M ago19:48

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For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talked to violinist María Dueñas to talk about her wonderful new album of Paganini's 24 Caprices - as well as works by successors who were influenced by the style - which is available now on Deutsche Grammophon.

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Pianist Samson Tsoy on his debut solo album, 'Inmost Heart' 27:35

5M ago27:35

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The pianist Samson Tsoy makes his solo debut on record with an album for Linn, 'Inmost Heart'. Built around Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, the programme explores Brahms's fascination with the Baroque, but also how his music was later transcribed by Reger and Busoni. This Gramophone Podcast is given in association with Wigmore H…

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EARL OKIN'S AMAZING GRAMOPHONE SHOW No. 187.

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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No. 187. To listen or download, please click HERE (1) LUCREZIA BORGIA – Donixetti. Il Segreto Per Esser Felice. CLARA BUTT. (2) I Told You I Loved You Now Get Out – Ellis/Carter/Frigo. STAN KENTON ORCH./JUNE CHRISTY. (3) The Presidential Election – Gosden/Correll. AMOS 'N ANDY. (4) DON GIOVANNi – Mozart. Il Mio Tesoro. J…

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Fatma Said on lieder and friendship 40:02

5M ago40:02

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Soprano Fatma Said shares the closeness she feels to the world of lieder and how this has lead to her latest album on Warner Classics. She speaks to Hattie Butterworth about the element of friendship within a musicians’ professional and personal life, as well as her creative decisions throughout the album to include a number of pianists and instrum…

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Pianist Dmitry Masleev on his Dies irae-themed Liszt & Rachmaninov album 23:45

5M ago23:45

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Dmitry Masleev took first prize in the Piano category of the 2015 Tchaikovsky International Competition and since then has released a number of recordings. The latest, from Aparté, is a concertante collection of Liszt's Totentanz, his Rhapsodie espagnole (in a version for piano and orchestra made by Masleev's professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, …

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