Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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• Apollo 5 on their new album 'Crossings'

  October 2, 2026 · 32 min

  Gus and Lily from Apollo 5 join Hattie in the Gramophone studio to discuss their new album, Crossings, out now on the Voces8 label. Mapping a musical journey across the centuries and ancient pilgrimage trail the Via Francigena, the album…

• The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

  September 30, 2026 · 52 min

  In a special edition of the Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford travelled to Bergen to spend time with our current Orchestra of the Year, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, as they come to end of their year as holder of that…

• Lukáš Vasilek on Honegger's Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher

  September 25, 2026 · 20 min

  For this week's Gramophone Podcast, conductor Lukáš Vasilek joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his fascinating new recording with the Czech Philharmonic of Honegger's Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher - Joan of Arc at the Stake – newly…

• Cellist Ben Michaels on commissioning music for cello

  September 18, 2026 · 29 min

  Cellist Ben Michaels speaks to Hattie Butterworth about his new album on Delphian, 'for cello, by cellists'. Michaels speaks about commissioning cellist-composers, carving out a less typical career as a musician and the versatile identity…

• Roxanna Panufnik on 'Love Songs & Lullabies'

  September 11, 2026 · 32 min

  Roxanna Panufnik talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her fascinating and moving new album of Love Songs and Lullabies, released on the Signum label, as well as about her approach to composing and creativity more widely.  See…

• Conductor Philipp von Steinaecker on historically informed Mahler performance

  September 4, 2026 · 33 min

  The conductor Philipp von Steinaecker and the Mahler Academy Orchestra recorded Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in 2024 for Alpha Classics using instruments contemporary with the composer and employing historically informed performance practices…

• The Gramophone Listening Room – Episode 4, with Freddie De Tommaso & Charlie Lovell-Jones

  August 28, 2026 · 54 min

  In this week's episode of The Gramophone Listening Room, presented in partnership with dCS Audio, host Charlotte Gardner welcomes tenor Freddie De Tommaso and violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones to the studio to share two of their personal…

• Joby Talbot and Craig Hella Johnson on setting Octavio Paz’s poem ‘Piedra de sol’

  August 21, 2026 · 42 min

  In the latest edition of the Gramophone Podcast, composer Joby Talbot and the conductor of vocal ensemble Conspirare Craig Hella Johnson join Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about their fascinating collaboration: a setting of Mexican…