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The 50 best Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings - Gramophone
WEBThe 50 best Mozart recordings Wednesday, November 1, 2023 50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews
30 of the greatest violinists on record - Gramophone
WEBJun 21, 2022 · 30 of the greatest violinists on record Tuesday, June 21, 2022 A collection of phenomenal violin recordings from legendary performers such as David Oistrakh and Ginette Neveu to modern masters like Lisa Batiashvili and Frank Peter Zimmermann
Top 10 String Quartets - Gramophone
WEBTop 10 String Quartets Gramophone Thursday, January 12, 2023 Tracing the evolution of the string quartet from Haydn to Britten, via some of the greatest recordings available
250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's ...
WEBRevealed, 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 Beethoven recordings - Gramophone
WEBThe 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
50 Great Conductors - Gramophone
WEB50 Great Conductors Gramophone Sunday, January 1, 2023 A great conductor illuminates music you thought you knew in a way that you couldn't possibly have imagined.
The World's Greatest Orchestras - Gramophone
WEBThe 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
Schubert: the 50 greatest recordings - Gramophone
WEBSchubert: 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 many more
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: the greatest recordings
WEBWhen 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 ...