Classical Guides
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Ethel Smyth
22nd May 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the late Romantic composer, known for her groundbreaking operas, her solo songs, and her fearless involvement in the suffragette movement.
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Arthur Sullivan
15th May 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the great Victorian composer - best known for his light operas written in collaboration with William Schwenck Gilbert and for his hymn-tunes.
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Sullivan, A: The Mikado
Donald Adams (The Mikado), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Nanki-Poo), Richard Suart (Ko-Ko), Felicity Palmer (Katisha), Marie McLaughlin (Yum-Yum), Richard Van Allan (Pooh-Bah), Nicholas Folwell (Pish-Tush) Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Louis Spohr
16th Apr 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the early Romantic violin innovator - composer of eighteen violin concertos, thirty-six string quartets and more, and developer of two invaluable musical inventions: the chinrest and the rehearsal mark.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
28th Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the Anglo-Irish composer - known particularly for his sacred choral music but also a prodigious composer of chamber and orchestral works, songs, part-songs and more.
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Hugo Wolf
13th Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the arch-Romantic Lieder composer - best known for his intense, harmonically adventurous Mörike-Lieder, Italienisches Liederbuch and Spanisches Liederbuch.
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Bedřich Smetana
2nd Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the great Czech Romantic composer - best known for his stirring pictorial tone poem Má vlast and opera The Bartered Bride.
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Verbier Festival Gold on Deutsche Grammophon
17th Jan 2024
In anticipation of the Swiss festival's thirtieth birthday later this year, we shine a spotlight on some of the outstanding live recordings which have recently been made available through their partnership with Deutsche Grammophon.
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Carl Friedrich Abel
11th Jan 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by perhaps the last of the great viola da gamba players, in a slightly belated celebration of the 300th anniversary of his birth.
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Gifts for... Baroque and Early Music fans
11th Dec 2023
From new recordings by Pygmalion, Phantasm and the Tallis Scholars to histories of the Academy of Ancient Music and seventeenth-century opera, browse our selection of books and recordings for lovers of Renaissance and baroque music.
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Gifts for...Pianists and piano-lovers
28th Nov 2023
From 2023's best new recordings and box sets to recent books and deluxe sheet music, we select our top gifts for pianists and pianophiles alike.
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Gifts for... Opera-Lovers
15th Nov 2023
In the first of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the opera-lover in your life, from the latest complete recordings and recital-albums to the best recent books about opera.
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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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The Academy of Ancient Music at 50
23rd Oct 2023
As the Academy of Ancient Music celebrates its 50th anniversary season, Music Director Laurence Cummings looks back at some of his favourite recordings from the orchestra’s discography.
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Peter Maxwell Davies: A postcard from Hoy, and a farewell to Stromness
9th Sep 2023
An account of a miniature Presto Pilgrimage over the summer holiday, in search of the former home of Peter Maxwell Davies in the Orkney Islands.
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William Byrd
4th Jul 2023
A selection of some of the best recent recordings of music by the giant of English early music, for the 400th anniversary of his death.
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John Eliot Gardiner at 80
20th Apr 2023
A look back over the conductor's long and illustrious recording career - from Monteverdi operas and Bach cantatas to Romantic rediscoveries and more.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian composer
1st Apr 2023
A selection of some of the finest recent recordings of the Russian colossus, to mark his 150th anniversary.
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Gifts for... Baroque and Early Music fans
15th Nov 2022
From new recordings from Pygmalion, Mahan Esfahani and the Marian Consort to magnificent new editions of Tudor keyboard music, browse our selection of books and recordings for lovers of Renaissance and baroque music.
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Gifts for...Pianists and piano-lovers
10th Nov 2022
From 2022's best new recordings and box sets, to informative books and deluxe sheet music, we select our top gifts for pianists and pianophiles alike.
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Gifts for... Opera-Lovers
8th Nov 2022
In the first of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the opera-lover in your life, from the latest recordings to the best books about opera.
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Valentyn Sylvestrov
29th Sep 2022
As the Ukrainian composer turns 85, David listens to some of the greatest recordings of his music - by turns introverted and reflective, rapturously spiritual, and politically impassioned.
