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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 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.
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.
Top 10 String Quartets - 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. Tracing the evolution of the string quartet from Haydn to Britten, via some of the greatest recordings available.
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 ...
China and classical music: an extraordinary story of growth
WEBApr 29, 2019 · From £ 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. We have long been told that China holds the key to the future of classical music. As the West looks increasingly to the East, what impact ...
Mozart's Symphony No 40: A deep dive into the best recordings
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Mozart's Symphony No 40: A deep dive into the best recordings. Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s penultimate symphony is perhaps his most popular. Richard Wigmore surveys a selection of recordings – and busts a few Mozartian myths along the way. The unfinished portrait of Mozart by the composer’s brother-in …
Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs: a quick guide to essential ...
WEBThe Four Last Songs marks a staging point on the long musical journey that has found composers luxuriating in the soprano voice. Strauss, more than many others, understood this most quintessentially feminine of voices and wrote with extraordinary sympathy, imagination and love for it (hardly surprising given that his wife Pauline was a soprano).
Top 10 Piano Concertos - Gramophone
WEBBrahms Piano Concerto No 1. Nelson Freire pf Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly. 'This is the Brahms piano concerto set we’ve been waiting for. Nelson Freire and Riccardo Chailly offer interpretations that triumphantly fuse immediacy and insight, power and lyricism, and incandescent virtuosity that leaves few details unturned, yet always ...