Latest News: Classical, Gramophone Choices
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2022 19th October 2022Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by Marc Minkowski's 'formidable re-evaluation' of Meyerbeer's influential but under-recorded supernatural opera Robert le Diable on Bru Zane, with John Osborn in the title-role.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2022 20th September 2022Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's 'fabulous debut disc' of arias and duets by Zandonai, Mascagni, Verdi and more on Deutsche Grammophon...
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2022 9th August 2022Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'deliciously honest' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022 12th July 2022Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022 15th June 2022Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2022 18th May 2022Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'lively, supple' account of Handel's early oratorio La Resurrezione on Linn from Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2022 26th April 2022Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'breathtakingly extravagant display of intellect and imagination' from Mitsuko Uchida in Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2022 21st March 2022Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a St. Matthew Passion from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon which offers 'glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations'.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2022 9th March 2022Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte's 'wild and beautiful' accounts of concertos by Vivaldi, Leclair and Locatelli with Les Ombres.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2022 31st January 2022Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Savall's 'very special' accounts of Beethoven's last four symphonies with Le Concert des Nations on Alia Vox.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2022 10th January 2022Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes's 'beautifully unaffected and honest' Grieg recital on Decca.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2021 21st December 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French soprano Sabine Devieilhe's 'almost indecently ravishing' recital of Bach and Handel on Erato.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2021 9th November 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, with Florence Price's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon in pride of place.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2021 18th October 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, with Michael Spyres's Baritenor (which sees the versatile American singer tackling roles as diverse as Donizetti's Tonio and Verdi's Conte di Luna) as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2021 13th September 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, with Igor Levit's 'magisterial' accounts of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues and Ronald Stevenson's On DSCH coming out on top as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2021 16th August 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, with Korean violinist Sueye Park's 'Journey Through A Century' in pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2021 14th July 2021Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Mahler's Seventh Symphony from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester first among equals.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2021 15th June 2021Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Sir András Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment supplying 'great revelations' in Brahms.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2021 17th May 2021Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by a 'remarkable' traversal of a single year in Mozart's life from Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2021 19th April 2021Chris introduces this month's selection, with a Proustian soirée from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place.