Latest News: Classical, BBC Music Magazine Choices
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices 12th September 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place, 'investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour' in their Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff album...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - September 2023 Choices 17th August 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'stunningly recorded' account of Hans Sørensen’s suite of excerpts from Bernard Herrmann's only opera Wuthering Heights (starring Keri Fuge as Cathy and Roderick Williams as Heathcliff).
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - August 2023 Choices 1st August 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Chineke!'s 'high-octane' recording of Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto (with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason as soloist).
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - July 2023 Choices 18th July 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'truly exceptional' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 from Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on BIS.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - June 2023 Choices 21st June 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an 'immensely assured' first album on Chandos from trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, featuring virtuosic paraphrases on themes from operas by composers including Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - May 2023 Choices 23rd May 2023
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by a Turandot of 'passion and intelligence' from Sir Antonio Pappano on Warner Classics, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann and Ermonela Jaho.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - April 2023 Choices 24th April 2023
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by a 'sumptuous and revelatory' conclusion to Phantasm's Well-Tempered Consort series on Linn...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - March 2023 Choices 20th March 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'compellingly realised' world premiere recording of Stravinsky's Les Noces in its 1919 version from Ensemble Aedes and Mathieu Romano.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - February 2023 Choices 20th February 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an 'exquisite' recital on the themes of love and loss from Ruby Hughes & Huw Watkins on BIS, which takes its title from Watkins's new song-cycle Echo.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - January 2023 Choices 30th January 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with a 'stunningly virtuosic' Stravinsky programme from the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos in pride of place...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2022 Choices 26th December 2022
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with an 'optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful' Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro on Erato in pride of place...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - December 2022 Choices 12th December 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'wonderfully refined orchestral playing' from the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jakub Hrůša on two discs of Brahms and Dvořák...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - November 2022 Choices 25th October 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Robert Levin's 'treasurable' set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas on the composer's own fortepiano in pride of place...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - October 2022 Choices 13th September 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust's 'indispensable' recording of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - September 2022 Choices 22nd August 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with concertos and orchestral works by Wieniawski, Dobrzyński & Kurpiński from the Orchestra of the 18th Century in pride of place...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices 7th July 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - July 2022 Choices 23rd June 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the 'greatest recording' of Handel's 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione from Harry Bicket and The English Concert on Linn.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - June 2022 Choices 8th June 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'mesmerising' debut recording of Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland from the Castalian String Quartet on Delphian.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - May 2022 Choices 10th May 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's 'electrifying and revelatory' Sibelius cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - April 2022 Choices 17th March 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Elisabeth Leonskaja's complete Mozart piano sonatas on Warner...
