Bizet's Carmen: A quick guide to essential recordings
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Three highly recommended recordings from the 1950s, 1970s and the 21st century
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Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: which recording is best?
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The greatest recordings of this ever-popular guitar concerto
Top 10 Grieg albums
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Gramophone's guide to the essential recordings of Edvard Grieg's music – from Dinu Lipatti to Anne Sofie von Otter
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending: A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Vaughan Williams’s hugely popular and ‘quintessentially English’ romance for violin and orchestra has received many outstanding recordings. Here's a complete guide...
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Peter and the Wolf is a work of considerable charm for people of all ages. Jeremy Nicholas enters the menagerie of recordings on offer
Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the greatest composer of all?
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington and Mitsuko Uchida discuss Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's extraordinary musical legacy
Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra | A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Strauss’s tone-poem may have been hijacked by the movies but there’s far more to the score than that famous sunrise, argues Philip Clark, as he seeks the finest recording
Verdi's Aida | A Complete Guide
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Richard Fairman explores Verdi's creative process, Sir Mark Elder reflects on Verdi's masterpiece, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings
Brahms's Symphony No 3: a guide to the best recordings
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Richard Osborne surveys the finest recordings of the Third Symphony
Top 10 Mussorgsky albums
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Here's our guide to 10 of the finest recordings of Mussorgsky's music, from the ever-popular Pictures from an Exhibition to the hidden treasure of the Nursery songs
Bach's Goldberg Variations: a quick guide to essential recordings
- Monday, May 24, 2021
Three highly recommended recordings: a modern choice, a classic and a hidden gem
Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs: a quick guide to essential recordings
- Monday, May 24, 2021
Three highly recommended recordings: a modern choice, a classic and an indulgence
Top 10 Mendelssohn albums
- Monday, May 24, 2021
Mendelssohn wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. Here are 10 of the best recordings
The best recordings of Shostakovich's Symphony No 10
- Monday, May 24, 2021
Love it or hate it, the work has attracted countless interpreters – from both the East and the West. David Gutman relishes these aural riches
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto – a quick guide to the best recordings
- Monday, May 24, 2021
A quick guide to the finest recordings of one of the most frequently performed concertos in the repertoire
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