Latest News: Classical, Gramophone Choices
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2019 16th September 2019Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos from Christian Tetzlaff, Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2019 14th August 2019Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by ‘a piano recording that really plucks at the heart-strings’ - Denis Kozhukhin's selections of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte on Pentatone.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2019 16th July 2019Chris introduces this month’s Choices, with a superb Janáček recital from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends on Hyperion first among equals as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2019 19th June 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances's vivid accounts of Charpentier's Bible scenes.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2019 22nd May 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s ‘revelatory accounts’ of two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2019 6th May 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, with pride of place going to a set of the late Beethoven sonatas by a pianist whose ‘kinship with the composer is everywhere apparent’.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2019 3rd April 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 which 'tells you not just how much Iván Fischer loves this work but how he loves it unconditionally'.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2019 26th February 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, headed up some 'simply wonderful Bach-playing' from Polish pianist Ewa Pobłocka on the Frederick Chopin Institute's own label.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2019 28th January 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, with the first volume of Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber’s Schumann series on Sony taking pride of place.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2019 22nd January 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s live recording of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (starring Furio Zanasi as the returning hero and Lucile Richardot as his long-suffering wife) in the lead as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2018 17th December 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with three of Handel's Italian cantatas from two outstanding young French singers and Emmanuelle Haïm directing Le Concert d'Astrée out in front as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2018 7th November 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with Hilary Hahn's second volume of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin occupying the top spot.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2018 23rd October 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon's recital of Chopin and Schubert on Hyperion taking pride of place.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2018 19th September 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sir Mark Elder's period-instrument recording of Rossini's Semiramide taking pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2018 13th August 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's centenary tribute to their former Honorary President Leonard Bernstein taking pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2018 16th July 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with the original 1863 version of Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles out in front as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2018 19th June 2018Chris introduces this month's selection, with an ingenious exploration of the young Mozart's visit to London in the top spot as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2018 21st May 2018Three delightful early nineteenth-century clarinet concertos (directed by the soloist) are top of the pile this month, with other featured artists including Trio Wanderer, Alfred Brendel, and Marc-André Hamelin.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2018 2nd May 2018One of two recent recordings of the Bartók violin concertos takes pride of place this month, with mentions in despatches for artists including Rachel Podger, Paul Lewis, Julien Brocal, and the Elias Quartet.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2018 27th March 2018A superb Rachmaninov double-bill from Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian orchestra comes out on top this month, with honourable mentions for pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Martin Helmchen and the young Persian-Austrian cellist Kian Soltani.