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Gramophone the 50 greatest Schubert recordings

Gramophone the 50 greatest Schubert recordings

The 50 greatest Schubert recordings begins with orchestral works, then moves through chamber and instrumental, and finishes with vocal. All of these lists are, of course, subjective, but every recording there has received the approval of Gramophone‘s critics and are artistic and musical benchmarks. So if you want to hear Schubert performance at its best, the list is the perfect place to start.

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Gramophone the 50 greatest Handel recordings

Gramophone the 50 greatest Handel recordings

The 50 greatest Handel recordings From Gramophone Wed 12th October 2016 Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest Handel recordings available

All of these lists are, of course, subjective, but every recording here has received the approval of Gramophone‘s critics and are artistic and musical benchmarks. So if you want to hear Handel performance at its best, this list…

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Martha Argerich's The Legendary 1965 Chopin Recording on vinyl

Martha Argerich’s The Legendary 1965 Chopin Recording on vinyl

For Argerich’s 75th birthday on 5 June, her legendary 1965 Chopin album finally sees its first release on LP, the format originally intended.

“Argerich was quite the most formidable player we had ever come across,” writes the album’s producer, Suvi Raj Grubb, “Nothing would have been beyond this woman.” All this adds up to a recording that is indeed legendary.

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Gramophone: Monteverdi's Combattimento – which recording should you buy?

Gramophone: Monteverdi’s Combattimento – which recording should you buy?

Dramatic madrigal, scena, musico-literary fling – however you care to classify Monteverdi’sCombattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda(‘The Fight between Tancred and Clorinda’), one thing is certain: it’s a one-off. First presented in 1624 at a private performance before a small, presumably avant-garde audience of nobility in a Venetian palace, it was a boldly theatrical staging of 16 verses from…

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Gramophone's Top 10 Bartók recordings

Gramophone’s Top 10 Bartók recordings

These are 10 of the finest recordings of Bartók recordings listed in Gramophone.

Concerto for Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner

(RCA)

‘A classic recording by one of the master Bartók conductors. With staggering playing by the Chicago Symphony and recording that simply doesn’t sound its age, this is a magnificent achievement. RCA’s sound reportage of the Concerto for Orchestra…

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Gramophone the best classical recordings of 2015 digital magazine free download

Gramophone the best classical recordings of 2015 digital magazine free download

You can enjoy the free digital magazine via Exact Editions, or by downloading the Gramophone app. The below introduce is from Gramophone.

There is always going to be a demand for great music in great performances, and recorded music will always be an essential adjunct to what happens in the concert hall and opera house. It’s what we’ve been celebrating since 1923 when Compton Mackenzie saw an…

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Abrahamsen's 'let me tell you' earns the world's biggest prize for musical composition of $100,000

Abrahamsen’s ‘let me tell you’ earns the world’s biggest prize for musical composition of $100,000

The Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has won the world’s biggest prize for musical composition, the Grawemeyer Award, for his song-cycle for soprano and orchestra let me tell you.

The winning work was premiered by soprano Barbara Hannigan with the Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Andris Nelsons in 2013. Let me tell youis a setting of a libretto by Paul Griffiths, adapted from his 2008 novel. This…

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David Threasher picks most unfairly neglected Mozart works

David Threasher picks most unfairly neglected Mozart works

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Maurerische Trauermusik, K477 (1785)

All of Mozart’s Masonic music languishes in obscurity – the various hymns, songs and cantatas he wrote for his Viennese lodge during the 1780s. It’s one thing to gather a pair of basset-horn players for the Requiem but another to get no fewer than three in the same room, along with a contrabassoonist and a reasonable-sized orchestra. For me there’s only…

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Win a 10-CD box set of the first 10 ‘Opéra français’ recordings from Gramophone

Win a 10-CD box set of the first 10 ‘Opéra français’ recordings from Gramophone

Gramophone now have a fantastic set of rare French Romantic Opera CD-books to give away. Simply enter the form here>>> Click here to open in a new window.

Produced by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, these beautifully documented recordings are the result of a unique combination of scholarship and performance.

The 10 CD-book set showcases neglected masterpieces including Sacchini’s Renaud, Massenet’s Le…

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Gramophone's Top 10 Arvo Pärt recordings

Gramophone’s Top 10 Arvo Pärt recordings

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music.

Tabula rasa. Fratres. Cantus.

Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko vns Alfred Schnittkeprepared pf Keith Jarrett pf Staatsorchester Stuttgart / Dennis Russell Davies, etc 

(ECM New Series)

The album that brought Pärt’s name to the West, and to the world: superbly attentive performances, including contributions from Gidon Kremer and…

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The List of Gramophone Awards 2015 winners

The List of Gramophone Awards 2015 winners

12 recordings that have won Gramophone Awards this year

The winners are:

Baroque instrumental Bach: Cello Suites – David Watkin (vc)

Baroque vocal Monteverdi: Vespers – Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini

Chamber Smetana: String Quartets 1 & 2 – Pavel Haas Quartet

Choral Elgar: Sea Pictures. Dream of Gerontius – Sarah Connolly (mz), BBC PO / Andrew Davis

Concerto Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 &…

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Music makes patients less anxious and reduces pain

Music makes patients less anxious and reduces pain

Music even had beneficial effects if the patients were under general anaesthetic. The research, carried out by scientists at Queen Mary University, London, found that patients were in less pain, were less anxious and even needed less pain relief after surgery if they listened to music before, during and after their operation.

The results were published in The Lancet – and the lead author of the…

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The interview of the inspirational one hand pianist Nicholas McCarthy

The interview of the inspirational one hand pianist Nicholas McCarthy

Most people who’ve marked the history of left-hand repertoire came to it through injury or trauma as concert pianists who lost an arm or lost the use of their hand. You are a unique example.  Are there advantages to coming to one-hand piano, as it were, from scratch?

NM: The classical music industry is quite a tricky industry, and it’s a challenge to try to carve a name for yourself with this…

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Gramophone download Valentina Lisitsa on Scriabin's piano music for free

Gramophone download Valentina Lisitsa on Scriabin’s piano music for free

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In the latest Gramophone Milestones Podcast (produced in association with EFG International), pianist Valentina Lisitsa discusses her passion for Scriabin’s music withGramophone‘s Editor Martin Cullingford.

To mark a century since the composer’s death this year, Decca produced a box-set Scriabin’s complete works. But when they started collating it, they discovered that there…

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Stars on Verbier Festival 2014

Stars on Verbier Festival 2014

Verbier Festival: Best of 2014 will be available in a 2-CD set

Since 1994, the high-profile, high-altitude festival in the Swiss Alps has been a breath of fresh air for musicians and audiences alike, each year attracting a who’s who of classical music without losing the intimacy and community fostered in this uniquely inspiring locale.

Twenty years on, Warner Classics has captured this unique…

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2015 International Tchaikovsky piano Competition winner

2015 International Tchaikovsky piano Competition winner

The 27-year-old Russian pianist Dmitry Masleev has won 2015 International Tchaikovsky piano Competition.

The young Russian was one of the audience’s favourites during the final rounds of the competition in Moscow. In his final performance he played Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Prokofiev’s Third Concerto. Second prize went jointly to Lukas Geniusas and George Li.

The winners were…

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Kirill Petrenko's Summer's Tale, Kirill Petrenko succeeds Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko’s Summer’s Tale, Kirill Petrenko succeeds Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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In a live-streamed news conference from Berlin today, it was announced that the next Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, succeeding Sir Simon Rattle, will be Kirill Petrenko.

Kirill Petrenko built his reputation as a conductor in the opera house. His first formal appointment was as General Music Director of the Meiningen theatre (with his most notable…

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