Classical Recommendations
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2023 Choices
1st Aug 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 - July 2023 Choices
18th Jul 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 - June 2023 Choices
21st Jun 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 - 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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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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BBC Music Magazine - April 2023 Choices
24th Apr 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 - March 2023 Choices
20th Mar 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 - February 2023 Choices
20th Feb 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 - January 2023 Choices
30th Jan 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 - Christmas 2022 Choices
26th Dec 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 - December 2022 Choices
12th Dec 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 - November 2022 Choices
25th Oct 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 - October 2022 Choices
13th Sep 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 - September 2022 Choices
22nd Aug 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 - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 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 - July 2022 Choices
23rd Jun 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 - June 2022 Choices
8th Jun 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 - 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 - April 2022 Choices
17th Mar 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Elisabeth Leonskaja's complete Mozart piano sonatas on Warner...
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2022 Choices
17th Feb 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Jennifer Kloetzel and Robert Koenig's set of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano on Avie...
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2022 Choices
26th Jan 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by French pianist Alexandre Kantorow's 'absorbing interpretation' of Brahms's Piano Sonata No. 3 on BIS...
