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The Sixteen's Harry Christophers talks about Handel's Saul, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili on Chopin, and an insight into life at Wells Cathedral School: The August 2012 Gramophone Podcast

James Jolly and Rob Cowan discuss the Orchestral Category shortlist in the Gramophone Awards 2012: Riccardo Chailly conducts Beethoven Symphonies (Decca), Jiři Bělohlávek records Martinů (Onyx) and Iván Fischer conducts Stravinsky (Channel Classics)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner discusses Bach, and Daniel Barenboim and Cameron Carpenter look ahead to their forthcoming Proms

Conductor Andrew Litton, violinist Rachel Podger on Vivaldi, Hall of Fame honorees the Takács Quartet and Sir Mark Elder on Wagner

EMI pianist HJ Lim talks about recording Beethoven sonatas, Gianandrea Noseda reflects on recording Britten's War Requiem for LSO Live, and Janina Fialkowska talks about her new Chopin disc on Atma Classique. Introduced by James Jolly

Clarinettist Emma Johnson on her disc of Brahms sonatas (Nimbus Alliance), pianist Mark Bebbington on recording the solo piano music of Arthur Bliss (Somm), Vladimir Ashkenazy on the European Union Youth Orchestra tour, and trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth on two new discs on EMI. Plus the Gramophone Hall of Fame.

Composer Eric Whitacre talks about one of the works on his new Decca disc, plus interviews with cellist Alban Gerhardt about his BachBahn project and conductor Tugan Sokhiev about his forthcoming tour with the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.

Conductor Sir Mark Elder talks about five of the nominees for the Gramophone Hall of Fame: Pierre Boulez, Carlo Maria Giulini, Giuseppe di Stefano, Fritz Wunderlich and Luciano Pavarotti

Interviews with early-music choir Stile Antico, the baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, recorder-player Erik Bosgraaf, and conductor Alan Gilbert on the New York Philharmonic's European tour. And a report from MIDEM, the record industry's annual trade fair.

Violinist Daniel Hope discusses eight of the nominees for the Hall of Fame: fellow violinists Menuhin, Oistrakh and Zukerman; the Beaux Arts Trio, pianist Rubinstein and conductors Furtwängler, Toscanini and Walter.

Gramophone editor Martin Cullingford presents the latest edition of the Gramophone Podcast, in which he talks to cellist Julian Lloyd Webber about the music of Delius and about his new disc of song transcriptions on Naxos, while editor-in-chief James Jolly talks to soprano Renée Fleming about her new disc of French songs on Decca, and to video artist Tal Rosner about working with the composer Thomas Adès on In Seven Days, a piano concerto, released on DVD by Signum Classics.

Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly presents the latest edition of the Gramophone Podcast, in which editor Martin Cullingford talks to conductor Antoni Wit about recording for Naxos, and to reviewer Bryce Morrison about the pianist Eileen Joyce and the new APR set of her recordings. We also explore the latest entries in the Specialist Classical Chart, complete with excerpts.

Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly hosts this month’s podcast and interviews violinist James Ehnes, whose new Chandos disc of Bartok’s violin and viola concertos has been named Gramophone’s November Recording of the Month. James also speaks to JoAnn Falletta who has recently taken over the helm of the Ulster Orchestra. In addition Martin Cullingford speaks to Richard Tognetti, who brings his Australian Chamber Orchestra to Europe for a short tour later this month.

Gramophone's editor-in-chief James Jolly presents the latest edition of the Gramophone Podcast. We talk to Milos Karadaglic, guitarist on DG and this year's Gramophone Young Artist of the Year; to countertenor Iestyn Davies about his disc of music by Porpora for Hyperion; and, in Venice, to Christophe Rousset about the third disc in his Virgin Classics series with Véronique Gens, 'Tragédiennes'. We also explore the recordings currently dominating the Specialist Classical Chart.

Gramophone's editor in chief, James Jolly, presents a special Podcast devoted to the 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, presented this year in association with Steinway & Sons. Gramophone critics introduce each of the winners, and you can listen to excerpts from the recordings. To find out more about the Awards and to read full reviews of all the winners, as well as to download six free tracks from iTunes, visit: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2011