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The 50 best Johannes Brahms albums - Gramophone
The 50 best Johannes Brahms albums Sunday, January 1, 2023 50 of the finest Brahms recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews and an exclusive playlist
The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings | Gramophone
The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings Gramophone Sunday, January 1, 2023 50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available – complete with the original Gramophone reviews – featuring Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Murray Perahia and more
The 50 best Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings - Gramophone
The 50 best Mozart recordings Wednesday, November 1, 2023 50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews
Handel's Messiah: a complete guide to the best recordings
Handel started composing the score of Messiah on August 22, 1741, and, after 24 days of concentrated creativity, finished its complete draft on September 14. The autograph score as it stood in autumn 1741 contained various musical contents distinct from later and more familiar reworkings and substitute settings.
250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's ...
Revealed, the 250 greatest classical recordings, as selected for Gramophone by more than 30 leading musicians. Below, contributing editor and reviewer Rob Cowan muses on why artists and critics might choose differently
Top 10 String Quartets - Gramophone
Debussy String Quartet, Op 10. Quatuor Ebène (Gramophone's Recording of the Year, 2009) 'There’s a fluidity to the Ebène’s playing of both works that suits the music’s character, a mood of wistfulness too that the Ravel especially benefits from.
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: the complete guide | Gramophone
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: the complete guide Geoffrey Norris Tuesday, January 3, 2023 A complete guide to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, including how audiences, performers and the composer himself have responded to this iconic and surprisingly controversial work
The 10 greatest Chopin pianists - Gramophone
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50 of the best classical pianists on record - Gramophone
50 of the best classical pianists on record Monday, January 1, 2024 An introduction to the greatest classical pianists and their best recordings, featuring Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Igor Levit and Maria João Pires