🏆This week we're turning the spotlight on Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, who are nominated for Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2025 @yle_rso. Cast your vote to decide this year's winner 👇

‘An impressive achievement, in Shostakovich's anniversary year’. @MrPhoebus heralds Andris Nelsons’s complete survey of Shostakovich’s symphonies and concertos with @bostonsymphony, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award 👇

@BostonSymphony @GramophoneMag Jed Distler reviews Yuja Wang's album of Shostakovich Piano Concertos recorded with Boston Symphony Orchestra, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award. Cast your vote to decide this year’s winner 👇

‘Listen to how the pianist insinuates herself within the first movement’s diverse textures, as she floats like a butterfly between the crisp woodwind attacks and releases’ @bostonsymphony

Bruckner's Symphony No 2, an introduction by Riccardo Muti

@BostonSymphony @GramophoneMag Rob Cowan reviews Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award. Cast your vote to decide this year’s winner 👇

‘Nelsons draws delicate textures from his players at the start of the Leningrad Symphony’s central march section and the eerie, ambiguous close of the Fifteenth’ @bostonsymphony

All of the Gramophone Award-winning recordings of Robert Schumann's music – a great introduction to Schumann's distinctive sound world.

@BostonSymphony @GramophoneMag Jed Distler reviews Yuja Wang's album of Shostakovich Piano Concertos recorded with Boston Symphony Orchestra, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award. Cast your vote to decide this year’s winner 👇

‘Back-and-forth phrases between the Boston Symphony’s suave strings and the piano soloist also take on a seamless conversational repartee’ @bostonsymphony

'A crackle of electricity has always been the hallmark of Norrington’s music-making'. As a tribute to Sir Roger Norrington, who has died at the age of 91, this is Richard Osborne's tribute to the conductor from the Awards 2023 issue of Gramophone.

2025 BBC Proms: Our Top Picks | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

The five new classical albums to hear this week – featuring Yuja Wang, Laura Lootens & Chloe Chua

To mark the Bruckner’s 200th anniversary we talked to ten of today’s leading conductors of his music about one symphony each. The result is a fascinating insight into of one of the most significant of all symphonic cycles.

@BostonSymphony @GramophoneMag Rob Cowan reviews Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award. Cast your vote to decide this year’s winner 👇

‘No 8 is magnificently played and recorded, the first movement especially, the depth of the lower strings captured with maximum presence’ @bostonsymphony

Claude Debussy: Top 20 Recordings

Sir András Schiff wins Praemium Imperiale prize

@BostonSymphony @GramophoneMag Jed Distler reviews Yuja Wang's album of Shostakovich Piano Concertos recorded with Boston Symphony Orchestra, who are shortlisted for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Award. Cast your vote to decide this year’s winner 👇

‘Andris Nelsons shapes climaxes that are full-bodied yet crystal-clear in every orchestral strand’ 👇 @bostonsymphony