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 Best Classical Music Albums of 2024 - Gramophone
The Best Classical Music Albums of 2024 Friday, December 13, 2024 All of these outstanding classical albums were Editor's Choices in Gramophone magazine and are highly recommended.
The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings | Gramophone
The 50 best Johann Sebastian Bach recordings Gramophone Sunday, January 1, 2023 50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available – complete with the original Gramophone reviews – featuring Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Murray Perahia and more
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
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.
Reviews - Gramophone
Explore 40,000 album reviews from the pages of Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine, from 1983 to today
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 ...
Claude Debussy: Top 20 Recordings - Gramophone
Claude Debussy's lyrical gift, idiosyncratic harmonies, colours and rhythms, his preference for suggestion rather than direct statement, resulted in a sound world that was quite different from those of Brahms, Wagner and Tchaikovsky, whose music ruled the roost while he was struggling to become accepted.But accepted he was, and many of his works are now central to the repertoire, as well as ...
Editor's Choice - Gramophone
Editor's Choice: March 2024 | The best new classical recordings This month: Janáček's Katya Kabanova from the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, Handel's Theodora by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Marc-André Hamelin plays his own piano music
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