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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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The Presto Chart - February 2021
4th Mar 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fifth instalment of Andris Nelsons's Bruckner cycle from Leipzig on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2021 Choices
24th Feb 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with a 'sexy, sparkling' account of John Eccles's Semele from the Academy of Ancient Music and Julian Perkins in pride of place.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2021: Shortlist
18th Feb 2021
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Introducing My Library
17th Feb 2021
Here's an update on the latest feature we added to the site: a new web player to explore and listen to your CDs and download collections online.
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Introducing My Library
17th Feb 2021
Here's an update on the latest feature we added to the site: a new web player to explore and listen to your CDs and download collections online.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2021
15th Feb 2021
A celebration of Natalie Dessay on stage and in the studio, a multi-conductor Mahler cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Strauss's complete tone-poems from François-Xavier Roth and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.
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Lise Davidsen's second album and other forthcoming highlights
9th Feb 2021
Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner and more from the Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano, plus Elgar from Renaud Capuçon, Bach from Rinaldo Alessandrini, and the DVD premiere of Jake Heggie's Great Scott with Joyce DiDonato.
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The Presto Chart - January 2021
3rd Feb 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's superb new recording of English music for string orchestra on Chandos in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2021 Choices
1st Feb 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'beautifully conceived' programme of medieval and contemporary choral music from Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier on Naxos.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2021
26th Jan 2021
The complete Percy Grainger recordings on Chandos, an anthology of piano lessons from Christoph Eschenbach, and celebrations of Dame Gillian Weir and Hephzibah Menuhin.
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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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International Classical Music Awards 2021
20th Jan 2021
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Beatrice Rana, Ermonela Jaho, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Chouchane Siranossian.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2021
15th Jan 2021
Plaisirs illuminés from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Behzod Abduraimov's debut recital on Alpha, Telemann from Holland Baroque, and Nathalie Stutzmann in baroque opera arias with Orfeo 55.
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Vinyl Round-Up - January 2021
14th Jan 2021
Highlights amongst recent and forthcoming vinyl releases include Itzhak Perlman's mid-1980s recordings of solo Bach, Anna Clyne's Mythologies, and Mariss Jansons's final concert from Carnegie Hall.
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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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New Release Round-Up - 8th January 2021
8th Jan 2021
Machaut from the Orlando Consort, Reicha from Ivan Ilić, Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, and an engaging debut album from baritone James Newby.
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The Presto Chart - 2020
6th Jan 2021
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Víkingur Ólafsson's spellbinding recital of Rameau and Debussy on Deutsche Grammophon leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2020
4th Jan 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Mark Simpson's Geysir and Mozart's Gran Partita on Orchid Classics in first place...
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2020 Goodbyes
30th Dec 2020
A short video tribute remembering some of the musicians who died during 2020.
