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Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: the complete guide | Gramophone
WEBFrom £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. A complete guide to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, including how audiences, performers and the composer himself have responded to this iconic ...
The 50 best Beethoven recordings - Gramophone
WEBIf you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Takács Quartet ...
Holst's The Planets – a quick guide to the best recordings
WEBFrom £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. A quick guide to a few of the finest accounts on record of Holst's hugely influential musical journey across the galaxy.
The World's Greatest Orchestras - Gramophone
WEBThe World's Greatest Orchestras. Tuesday, March 23, 2010. 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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings - Gramophone
WEBFrom £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. 50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the ...
Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: which recording is best?
WEBJoaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is arguably one of the most popular concertos of all time, thanks in no small measure to the extraordinary beauty of its central Adagio, which has been arranged for everything from mouth organ to brass band.This popularity has perhaps obscured the fact that the concerto is also one of the most original masterpieces of the 20th century, despite its ...
Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2 – which recording is best?
WEBPremiered in 1908, it was almost 70 years before Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony came in from the cold, finds David Gutman. Despite composing in what the musicologist Richard Taruskin teasingly labels a ‘new stile antico ’, Rachmaninov now looks like a major symphonist. At the London Proms, this least confrontational, most ‘conservative ...
Top 10 piano sonatas - Gramophone
WEBThe recordings gathered below trace the evolution of the piano sonata from Mozart to Prokofiev.It is not, of course, an exhaustive guide to the piano sonata tradition, in fact it would be perfectly possible to make a Top 10 piano sonatas that only included those by the undoubted master of the genre, Beethoven.He is represented here by his Moonlight Sonata, though the Hammerklavier, Pathétique ...
Brahms's Symphony No 3: a guide to the best recordings
WEBThe Third is the most personal of Brahms’s four symphonies, and the shortest. It is a glorious work, yet a deeply troubled one. And there is the added peculiarity of its being, unusually for its genre and age, a symphony in which all four movements end quietly. Brahms was 50 and at the zenith of his art when he completed it in 1883.
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