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
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.
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
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Holst's The Planets: a guide to the greatest recordings
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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 ...
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 …
The 50 best Johannes Brahms albums - Gramophone
The 50 best Johannes Brahms albums Sunday, January 1, 2023 50 of the finest Brahms recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews and an exclusive playlist