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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2021
18th Oct 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Michael Spyres's Baritenor (which sees the versatile American singer tackling roles as diverse as Donizetti's Tonio and Verdi's Conte di Luna) as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2021
13th Sep 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Igor Levit's 'magisterial' accounts of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues and Ronald Stevenson's On DSCH coming out on top as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2021
16th Aug 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Korean violinist Sueye Park's 'Journey Through A Century' in pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2021
14th Jul 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Mahler's Seventh Symphony from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester first among equals.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2021
15th Jun 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Sir András Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment supplying 'great revelations' in Brahms.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2021
17th May 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by a 'remarkable' traversal of a single year in Mozart's life from Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2021
19th Apr 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with a Proustian soirée from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2021
7th Apr 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne's 'peerless' album of French piano duets (including Fauré's Dolly Suite and Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye) on Hyperion.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2021
10th Mar 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Hilary Hahn's 'Paris' album (featuring music by Chausson, Prokofiev and Rautavaara) on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2021
25th Jan 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the first instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Rachmaninov series from Philadelphia on Deutsche Grammophon in pride of place.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2021
11th Jan 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Frank Peter Zimmermann's 'benchmark' recordings of the Martinů violin concertos with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hruša on BIS.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2020
8th Dec 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis taking top honours for their 'inner luminosity' in a programme of music for Passiontide by Andreas Hammerschmidt on Ricercar.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2020
9th Nov 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by ‘fresh, fascinating but not uncontroversial accounts’ of Nielsen’s first two symphonies from Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2020
13th Oct 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by ‘compelling, supremely persuasive performances’ of Franz Schmidt’s symphonies from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2020
15th Sep 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by an 'exciting, committed, necessary and brilliantly recorded' Peter Grimes starring Stuart Skelton on Chandos.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2020
18th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Vladimir Jurowski's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Sarah Connolly, Robert Dean Smith and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Pentatone.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2020
21st Jul 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a ‘formidable’ account of Luigi Dallapiccola’s one-act opera Il Prigioniero from Gianandrea Noseda on Chandos.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2020
15th Jun 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a centenary celebration of the Cleveland Orchestra under their Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, which features two new commissions as well as music by Beethoven, Strauss, Prokofiev and Varèse.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2020
26th May 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with pride of place going to Piotr Beczała's 'simply wonderful' album of verismo arias, Vincerò!, released on Pentatone earlier this month.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2020
12th May 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Tippett Quartet taking top honours for their 'breathtaking sense of control' in Henryk Górecki’s String Quartet No. 3 on Naxos.
