The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings | Gramophone
Jan 1, 2023 · We are proud to present 50 of the finest recordings of JS Bach's music. Included here are Gramophone Award-winning albums, Recordings of the Month and Editor's Choice recordings.. The list is organised by genre, beginning with orchestral works, then moving though chamber, instrumental and vocal.
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.
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
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
The 50 best Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings - Gramophone
Following the overwhelming popularity of our lists of the 50 greatest Beethoven, Bach, Chopin and Handel recordings, we have now gathered 50 of the finest recordings of Mozart's music – Gramophone Award-winning albums, Recordings of the Month and Editor's Choice discs, from legendary performers like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Benjamin Britten to modern masters like John Butt and Alina Ibragimova.
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Explore 40,000 album reviews from the pages of Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine, from 1983 to today
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): a guide to the best ...
Apr 19, 2023 · The Magic Flute was a welcome operatic success for Mozart during his hectic final year. Richard Wigmore considers ten decades of recordings of this enchanting masterpiece
The 50 best Beethoven recordings - Gramophone
The 50 best Beethoven recordings Gramophone Wednesday, November 1, 2023 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Takács Quartet and more
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 ...