Classical Recommendations
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2025 Choices
26th Feb 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern's Exile (featuring music by Panufnik, Ysaÿe, Schubert, Wyschnegradsky and Schnittke) on Alpha Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2025 Choices
5th Feb 2025
Chris introduces this issue's choices, headed by 'pliant, expressive, wild and virtuosic' Vivaldi from French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Le Consort on Harmonia Mundi.
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2025 Choices
30th Dec 2024
Chris introduces this issue's choices, headed by a 'peerless' recital of Brahms and Schubert from French pianist Alexandre Kantorow on BIS.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2024 Choices
3rd Dec 2024
Chris introduces this issue's choices, headed by a 'deliberate and fresh exploration' of the possibilities offered by trombone quartet from Slide Action on NMC Records - including music by Henry Purcell, Laura Jurd, Alex Paxton and Joanna Ward.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2024 Choices
29th Oct 2024
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by 'A Celebration of Women's Voices' from harpist Louise Thomson, the Corvus Consort and Freddie Crowley on Chandos.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2024 Choices
14th Oct 2024
Katherine introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a recording you'll want to sit down and savour' from Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake on Chandos, featuring arrangements of works by Robert and Clara Schumann.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2024 Choices
17th Sep 2024
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by 'undoubtedly one of the best recordings of Bruckner 7 in the digital era' - courtesy of Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Reference Recordings.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2024 Choices
12th Aug 2024
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a deeply felt celebration of the power of music' from Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2024 Choices
9th Jul 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'passionate, committed' accounts of Brahms's String Quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and violist Lilli Maijala on BIS.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2024 Choices
25th Jun 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of The Dream of Gerontius 'that every Elgarian should have' from Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli on Signum, with Nicky Spence in the title-role.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2024 Choices
4th Jun 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a collection of works by Augusta Read Thomas which 'verily zing with life and colour, while readily charting profound emotional depths'.
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2024 Choices
7th May 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, with an 'endlessly fascinating' recital of Marc-André Hamelin's solo piano works (played by the composer) at the top of the pile...
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2024 Choices
9th Apr 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of Orazio Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus which 'engulfs the senses' from I Fagiolini on Coro.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2024 Choices
18th Mar 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Timothy Ridout's 'deft salute' to fellow viola-player Lionel Tertis on Harmonia Mundi.
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2024 Choices
5th Feb 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an album of 'spellbinding virtuosity and compelling insight' from Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko and Reto Bieri on Alpha.
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2024 Choices
9th Jan 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a programme of Penderecki from the Latvian Radio Choir which demonstrates 'a palpable grasp of the music’s emotional heart'.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2023 Choices
27th Nov 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'a timely showcase of an exceptionally talented composer' - namely a quartet of orchestral works by Dobrinka Tabakova, released on The Hallé's own label in October.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2023 Choices
25th Oct 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'dynamic and vivid' postscript to Fabio Luisi's Gramophone Award-winning cycle of the Nielsen symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon...
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices
12th Sep 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 - September 2023 Choices
17th Aug 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).
