Classical Recommendations
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2023
15th May 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the final instalment of Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew's 'compelling' Gesualdo series on Harmonia Mundi...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2023
12th Apr 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Quatuor Ebène and Antoine Tamestit's 'new benchmark' recording of Mozart's string quintets on Erato...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2023
13th Mar 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Antonio Pappano's 'magnificently recorded' account of Puccini's Turandot (using Alfano's original, uncut completion and starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann and Ermonela Jaho) on Warner Classics.
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Puccini: Turandot
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2023
14th Feb 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Toutes les nuits - a 'stunning, intelligently paced' album of nocturnal Renaissance songs from Romain Bockler, Bor Zuljan and Dulces Exuviae on Ricercar.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2022
20th Dec 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a display of 'fearless daredevilry' from pianist (and high-flying international lawyer) Paul Wee in transcriptions by Liszt and Alkan on BIS...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2022
28th Nov 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by 'an exquisite album of unparalleled beauty' from The Sixteen and Fretwork...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2022
19th Oct 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by Marc Minkowski's 'formidable re-evaluation' of Meyerbeer's influential but under-recorded supernatural opera Robert le Diable on Bru Zane, with John Osborn in the title-role.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2022
20th Sep 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's 'fabulous debut disc' of arias and duets by Zandonai, Mascagni, Verdi and more on Deutsche Grammophon...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2022
9th Aug 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'deliciously honest' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022
12th Jul 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022
15th Jun 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2022
18th May 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'lively, supple' account of Handel's early oratorio La Resurrezione on Linn from Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2022
26th Apr 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'breathtakingly extravagant display of intellect and imagination' from Mitsuko Uchida in Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2022
21st Mar 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a St. Matthew Passion from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon which offers 'glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations'.
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2022
9th Mar 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte's 'wild and beautiful' accounts of concertos by Vivaldi, Leclair and Locatelli with Les Ombres.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2022
31st Jan 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Savall's 'very special' accounts of Beethoven's last four symphonies with Le Concert des Nations on Alia Vox.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2022
10th Jan 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes's 'beautifully unaffected and honest' Grieg recital on Decca.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2021
21st Dec 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French soprano Sabine Devieilhe's 'almost indecently ravishing' recital of Bach and Handel on Erato.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2021
9th Nov 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Florence Price's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon in pride of place.
