Latest News: Classical, BBC Music Magazine Choices
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - February 2021 Choices 1st February 2021Chris 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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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - January 2021 Choices 5th January 2021Katherine introduces this month's Choices, with Daniil Trifonov's Silver Age striking gold as Recording of the Month...
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2020 Choices 14th December 2020Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by a tribute to the late Sir John Tavener from Steven Isserlis and friends on Hyperion.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - December 2020 Choices 3rd November 2020Katherine introduces this month's selection, with Diana Damrau's triptych of Donizetti's Tudor Queens on Erato as Recording of the Month.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - November 2020 Choices 7th October 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, with Hervé Niquet's recording of Lully's Armide (featuring a 'career-defining performance' from Véronique Gens in the title-role) at the top of the tree.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - October 2020 Choices 8th September 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sergei Babayan's 'utterly compelling' Rachmaninov recital on Deutsche Grammophon as Recording of the Month.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - September 2020 Choices 11th August 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Cleveland Orchestra’s eclectic celebration of their centenary (featuring two world premieres commissioned for the occasion) as Recording of the Month.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - August 2020 Choices 15th July 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's survey of piano works by Beethoven's contemporaries Hummel, Dussek, Clementi and Wölfl as Recording of the Month.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - July 2020 Choices 11th June 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, with Alina Ibragimova's 'supernaturally fine-tuned' accounts of Shostakovich's Violin Concertos with Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov' on Hyperion in pride of place.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - June 2020 Choices 18th May 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Víkingur Ólafsson's best-selling Rameau and Debussy recital on Deutsche Grammophon.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - May 2020 Choices 21st April 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by violinist Jack Liebeck's 'stellar Brahms and expressive Schoenberg' concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Gourlay on Orchid Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - April 2020 Choices 25th March 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Volume Two of Italian pianist Federico Colli's exuberant Scarlatti series on Chandos, described by Michael Church as 'a riveting hour' of 'wonderful pianism'.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - March 2020 Choices 10th March 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, including Shostakovich from the late Mariss Jansons, Prokofiev from Steven Osborne, and Tchaikovsky from the Rolston String Quartet.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - February 2020 Choices 12th February 2020Chris introduces this month's selection, including Bach from Angela Hewitt, Tchaikovsky from Peter Donohoe, and Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - January 2020 Choices 24th December 2019Chris introduces this issue's selection, headed by 'the best Samson ever' from John Butt and Dunedin Consort on Linn.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2019 Choices 26th November 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, including Dvořák and Martinů concertos from Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek, Dohnányi from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet, and late Schubert from Francesco Piemontesi.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - December 2019 Choices 28th October 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, including formidable Shostakovich from Sydney International Piano Competition winner Andrey Gugnin, Ian Bostridge’s third Winter Journey (this time with Thomas Adès as his companion), and Simon Rattle’s first concert as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - November 2019 Choices 14th October 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, including Korngold from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London, Beethoven and more from the Danish String Quartet, and Schumann from Joseph Tong.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - October 2019 Choices 23rd September 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, including Handel from Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan and Bridget Cunningham, Bach from Mahan Esfahani, and American song from Melody Moore.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - September 2019 Choices 7th August 2019Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Vox Luminis, the Jerusalem Quartet, Elizabeth Kenny, Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, and Alamire.