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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
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
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.
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 World's Greatest Orchestras - Gramophone
The votes are in. Time to celebrate the best of the best. It’s a classical title showdown! Swapping gloves for glissandi and punches for prestos, players from around the globe square up for the hotly contested spot of World’s Best Symphony Orchestra
The 10 Best Mozart Works – A Beginner's List - Gramophone
Feb 1, 2022 · Here are 10 essential works that gave an idea of breadth, and more important, depth of Mozart's musical genius. Perfect for those discovering his music for the first time.
Schubert: the 50 greatest recordings - Gramophone
Schubert: the 50 greatest recordings Sunday, January 1, 2023 This list of albums is a great way to start exploring Schubert's music and includes many of the finest recordings from the last 100 years, featuring Sir Thomas Beecham, Alfred Brendel, Imogen Cooper, Gundula Janowitz, and …
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: the greatest recordings
When Furtwängler’s arch-rival Arturo Toscanini conducted the symphony in London in 1939, Neville Cardus suggested that the performance was too much an exercise in orchestral virtuosity, not least in the tragic first movement where the conducting rarely peered beneath the surface. This was not a popular view, either then or at the time of Toscanini’s last and finest Ninth, recorded live in ...
Top 10 String Quartets - Gramophone
Top 10 String Quartets Gramophone Thursday, January 12, 2023 Tracing the evolution of the string quartet from Haydn to Britten, via some of the greatest recordings available