The Gramophone magazine

A host of well-known names, including Sir Nicholas Kenyon, James Bowman, Sir Neville Marriner, Dame Emma Kirkby and Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly pay tribute to Christopher Hogwood as the conductor celebrates his 70th birthday. With musical excerpts from Hogwood's recordings for Decca, EMI Classics, Arte Nova and Supraphon.

In this month's Gramophone Podcast pianist Benjamin Grosvenor – aged just 19 but signed to Decca and opening the 2011 BBC Proms – talks to Martin Cullingford about his new disc of music by Chopin, Liszt and Ravel. Meanwhile, James Jolly travels to Paris to talk to François-Xavier Roth about his new recording of Saint-Saëns. Plus, find out the latest new entries in the Specialist Classical Chart. Complete with music excerpts.

In this month's Gramophone Podcast Martin Cullingford talks to Edward Higginbottom about the new record label from New College Oxford, Novum, and their Mozart Requiem recording, James Jolly talks to pianist Kirill Gerstein about recordings made by Rachmaninov, and James Inverne meets up with Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja.

In this month's Gramophone Podcast Martin Cullingford joins countertenor James Bowman and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in Oxford as they rehearse for their Wigmore Hall concert, James Jolly talks to young conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin about his plans as he prepares to takes over as music director of the Philadelphia orchestra (and we hear an excerpt from his recent recording of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique on BIS), and James Jolly and James Inverne discuss some of the month's leading recordings.

Gramophone Online's Editor Martin Cullingford introduces the latest Gramophone podcast, in which Editor-in-Chief James Jolly talks to composer John Rutter about the new recording of his music on Naxos records, as well as to its conductor, St Albans Cathedral's Master of Music, Andrew Lucas. He also talks to pianist Alexandra Silocea about her first disc of Prokofiev Piano sonatas for Avie records, and Martin discusses this year's summer festival season with Gramophone Staff Writer Charlotte Smith.

Gramophone Online's editor Martin Cullingford introduces the latest Gramophone podcast, in which editor-in-chief James Jolly interviews conductor Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini about recording Striggio's 40 part Mass for Decca, and pianist Nick van Bloss about recording the Goldberg Variations for Nimbus. Martin also talks to Gramophone editor James Inverne about film music, the subject of this month's edition of the magazine.

Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly introduces the March issue of Gramophone, and interviews Rob Cowan about Sir Thomas Beecham. Martin Cullingford, editor of Gramophone Online, talks to Jeremy Nicholas about recordings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and to conductor and scholar David Skinner about his choir Alamire and their ambitious recording plans.

Gramophone Editor-in-Chief James Jolly reports from Midem in Cannes, the annual music business convention held in the South of France. Find out the latest recording plans from label bosses Klaus Heymann of Naxos, Didier Martin of Naïve Classique, Jared Sacks from Channel Classics, Jeremy Elliott of Retrospective Recordings, Pieter van Winkel of Piano Classics, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's general manager John Kieser.

Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly talks to conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner about the Monteverdi Choir, and to pianist Murray Perahia about his new recording of Brahms's Handel Variations, while editor of Gramophone Online Martin Cullingford travels to Versailles to see Christophe Rousset's revival of Lully's opera Bellérophon.

Bryce Morrison talks about his favourite recordings of Schubert's final Piano Sonata, D960 in B Flat major, conductor Riccardo Chailly reveals his recording plans with the Decca label, and composer Eric Whitacre talks about his YouTube project and his new Decca album 'Light and Gold', from which we hear an excerpt of 'Water Night'. Introduced by the editor of Gramophone Online, Martin Cullingford.

Every year, in its Critics' Choice feature, Gramophone invites its reviewers to choose a recording released in the past 12 months that they would give as a Christmas present. Richard Lawrence, Rob Cowan, Richard Wigmore and Richard Whitehouse tell us more about their choices, after which we hear an excerpt. Introduced by the editor of Gramophone Online Martin Cullingford.

Gramophone explores some of the latest classical music releases and talks to the artists behind them, including composer Nico Muhly and conductor Paul Hillier, and pays tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland. Introduced by the editor of Gramophone Online Martin Cullingford, and includes musical excerpts.

Gramophone's editor in chief James Jolly talks to Rob Cowan about the short-listed recordings for the 2010 Gramophone Awards – music in the Orchestral, Concerto and two Historic categories, with music examples from the recordings.