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FEATURED July 2009 As Stephen Hough and Steven Isserlis prepare for their Prom next Friday, we feature their joint interview from July's issue. Interview? That sounds a lot like chamber music to me – the exchange of opinions and ideas. So to interview Steven Isserlis, with whom I’ve played more chamber music than anyone else, more > Elisabeth Söderström (1927-2009) remembered June 2004 Three English Masters MARCH 1984 Britten conducts the first recording of Peter Grimes October 1959 The Development of the Record Industry - by Brian Rust April 1977		On This Day The eleventh and final son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christian Bach, is born in Leipzig (1735) CLASSIC REVIEW March 1975 THE CLASSIC REVIEW - Emil Gilels said of the Grieg Lyric Pieces that they "open up a great intimacy of feeling". How did his classic recording first fare in Gramophone's pages ? Emil Gilels records Grieg's Lyric Pieces more > Karl Böhm's Pastoral FEBRUARY 1972 Solti's Mahler Eighth OCTOBER 1972 Pletnev conducts Tchaikovsky's 6th JANUARY 1992 Barbirolli's Mahler Fifth DECEMBER 1969

The 1950s were a fantastically exciting time for classical music. Maria Callas and Glenn Gould were becoming legendary figures that still excite passionate debate today, while the growth of the LP was radically changing home listening.
Composer of the Week Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. Apart from the final years of his life, he managed more successfully than any other Great Russian composer living under the dictatorship to maintain his... more > Robert Schumann (1810-56) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Leos Janácek (1854-1928)		Artist in Focus Jiri Belohlavek You may have trouble with the name (Yeer-zhee Bee-ell-oh-hlah-veck), but this Czech conductor has become major fixture on the international music scene more > Itzhak Perlman Paul Lewis Sir Simon Rattle Sir Roger Norrington