The Gramophone podcast

Carolyn Sampson talks to Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about 'Reason in Madness', her new recording from BIS performed with pianist Joseph Middleton, which focuses on some of literature's heroines whose mental state has been unbalanced by sadness or tragedy, drawing on some glorious, and unsettling, music from composers including Brahms, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Poulenc.

Isabelle Faust, the multi-Gramophone Award-winning violinist, has recorded an album of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on the Harmonia Mundi label. She talks about the new recording with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly. 

Grace Williams (1906-77) was one of Wales’s finest composers - she left a sizeable body of work, her best-known piece being the orchestral tone-poem Penillion, as well as a lot of chamber music, much of it as yet unpublished. Madeleine Mitchell and friends have just released a recording for Naxos of her chamber music, and Editor-in-Chief James Jolly caught up with the violinist to talk about it.

The Berlin Philharmonic clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to James Jolly about recording Weber's First Clarinet Concerto and music by Brahms and Mendelssohn, for DG

Lucie Horsch’s new album, Baroque Journey, takes us on a thrilling and diverse journey through some of the recorder’s most beautiful repertoire. Gramophone’s Editor Martin Cullingford met her to discuss her new release on Decca.

As Dame Emma Kirkby, of the UK's most popular sopranos, reaches a milestone birthday, we catch up with her and look back over her career, with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly. With music courtesy of Hyperion records. 

The conductor Harry Christophers, who founded his choir The Sixteen in 1979, tells James Jolly about his new release - Handel's pastoral Acis and Galatea, issued on the Coro label.

The pianist and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year talks to James Jolly about his new album for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Mendelssohn's two piano concertos alongside two major solo works.

Back in our November issue we named Hilary Hahn’s new album of the solo violin music of Bach, on the Decca label, our Recording of the Month. For the latest Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talked to her about her about very personal relationship with the composer’s music.  

Pianist Roman Rabinovich discusses recording Haydn piano sonatas for First Hand Recordings. Presented by Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly.

The baritone Christian Gerhaher on the Schumann series he’s launched on Sony Classical

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.

The cellist in conversation with James Jolly

St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge Music Director Edward Wickham discusses the choir's first decade and their new recording