Classical Recommendations
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2017
21st Sep 2017
Chris rounds up the best of the month's heavyweights, including a collection of recent Royal Opera House productions and tributes to Vladimir Ashkenazy and Paul Badura-Skoda.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2017
19th Sep 2017
Chris introduces the picks of the latest issue, with cello concertos by CPE Bach and Haydn out in front as Recording of the Month…
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New Release Round-up - 15th September 2017
15th Sep 2017
Featuring box sets celebrating Maria Callas and Georg Solti, Plácido Domingo in Verdi and chamber music with the Gringolts Quartet and violist Ellen Nisbeth.
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Maria Callas Live (42 CDs & 3 Blu-rays)
Maria Callas (soprano), Gino Bechi (Nabucco), Maria Callas (Abigaille), Amalia Pini (Fenena), Gino Sinimberghi (Ismaele), Iginio Riccò (Gran Sacerdote), Luciano della Pergola (Abdallo), Silvana Tenti (Anna), Rolando Panerai (Amfortas), Africo Baldelli (Parsifal), Maria Callas (Kundry), Boris Christoff (Gurnemanz), Giuseppe Modesti (Klingsor), Dmitri Lopatto (Titurel), Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi (Arrigo), Maria Callas (La Duchessa Elena), Enzo Mascherini (Guido di Montforte), Boris Christoff (Giovanni da Procida), Mario Frosini (Il Conte Vaudemont), Bruno Carmassi (Il Sire di Bethume), Mafalda Masini (Ninetta), Gino Sarri (Danieli), Aldo De Paolo (Tebaldo), Lido Pettini (Roberto), Breno Ristori (Manfredo), Maria Callas (Aida), Mario del Monaco (Radamès), Oralia Domínguez (Amneris), Giuseppe Taddei (Amonasro), Roberto Silva (Ramphis), Ignacio Ruffino (Il Re di Egitto), Rosa Rodríguez (Una Sacerdotessa), Carlos Sagarminaga (Un Messaggero), Maria Callas (Armida), Francesco Albanese (Rinaldo), Mario Filippeschi (Gernando), Gianni Raimondi (Eustazio), Alessandro Ziliani (Goffredo), Antonio Salvarezza (Ubaldo), Mario Frosini (Idradote), Marco Stefanoni (Astarotte), Giuseppe di Stefano (Duca di Mantova), Maria Callas (Gilda), Piero Campolonghi (Rigoletto), Ignacio Ruffino (Sparafucile), María Teresa García (Maddalena), Ana María Feuss (Giovanna), Gilberto Cerda (Monterone), Alberto Herrera (Marullo), Carlos Sagarminaga (Borsa), Francisco Alonso (Conte di Ceprano), Edna Patoni (Contessa di Ceprano), Maria Callas (Norma), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Mirto Picchi (Pollione), Giacomo Vaghi (Oroveso), Joan Sutherland (Clotilde), Paul Asciak (Flavio), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Italo Tajo (Banco), Gino Penno (Macduff), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro), Gino Penno (Giasone), Maria Callas (Medea), Maria Luisa Nache (Glauce), Fedora Barbieri (Neris), Giuseppe Modesti (Creonte), Enrico Campi (Capitano), Angela Vercelli (Prima Ancella), Maria Amadini (Seconda Ancella), Maria Callas (Alceste), Renato Gavarini (Admète), Paolo Silveri (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Rolando Panerai (Apollon), Giuseppe Zampieri (Evandre), Nicola Zaccaria (La voix de l'Oracle), Silvio Maionica (Dieu infernal), Enrico Campi (Un Héraut), Franco Corelli (Licinius), Maria Callas (Giulia), Ebe Stignani (Gran Vestale), Enzo Sordello (Cinna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Grande Sacerdote), Vittorio Tatozzi (Un Console), Nicola Zaccaria (Aruspice), Mario del Monaco (Andrea Chénier), Aldo Protti (Carlo Gérard), Maria Amadini (La Contessa di Coigny), Silvana Zanolli (La mulatta Bersi), Lucia Danieli (Madelon), Cesare Valletti (Elvino), Maria Callas (Amina), Giuseppe Modesti (Rodolfo), Gabriella Carturan (Teresa), Eugenia Ratti (Lisa), Pier Luigi Latinucci (Alessio), Giuseppe Nessi (Notaro), Maria Callas (Lucia), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Edgardo), Rolando Panerai (Enrico), Nicola Zaccaria (Raimondo), Maria Callas (Anna Bolena), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Enrico), Gianni Raimondi (Percy), Plinio Clabassi (Rochefort), Gabriella Carturan (Smeton), Luigi Rumbo (Hervey), Maria Callas (Iphigénie), Francesco Albanese (Pylade), Anselmo Colzani (Thoas), Fiorenza Cossotto (Diane), Maria Callas (Violetta), Alfredo Kraus (Alfredo), Mario Sereni (Germont), Laura Zannini (Flora), Maria Cristina de Castro (Annina), Piero De Palma (Gastone), Alessandro Maddalena (Dottore Grenvil), Álvaro Malta (Barone Douphol), Vito Susca (Marchese d'Obigny), Maria Callas (Imogene), Pier Miranda Ferraro (Gualtiero), Regina Sarfaty (Sarfaty), Costantino Ego (Ernesto), Glade Peterson (Goffredo), Chester Watson (Itulbo), Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastianini (Severo), Nicola Zaccaria (Callistene), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia) Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, RAI Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Palacio de las Bellas Artes, Teatro alla Scala, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, American Opera Society, Covent Garden, Vittorio Gui, Erich Kleiber, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Tullio Serafin, Umberto Mugnai, Victor de Sabata, Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Antonino Votto, Herbert von Karajan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Nino Sanzogno, Franco Ghione, Nicola Rescigno, Carlo Felice Cillario
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Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award 2017
14th Sep 2017
This year's award went to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who announced her retirement yesterday - watch the beautiful short video tribute from last week's ceremony.
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Gramophone Awards 2017 - Recording of the Year
13th Sep 2017
Chris reports live from the ceremony in London, with full details of the overall winning recording, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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New Release Round-up - 8th September 2017
8th Sep 2017
Including Mendelssohn from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi from John Butt and Purcell from Harry Christophers, as well as Leif Ove Andsnes performing Sibelius.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2017 Choices
7th Sep 2017
Chris introduces this month's choices, with a chamber music venture headed by the star of last night's Prom occupying the top spot as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Awards 2017: The Winners!
1st Sep 2017
This year's victors in each of the twelve categories were revealed at noon today.
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New Release Round-up - 1st September 2017
1st Sep 2017
Haydn from Steven Isserlis, Mozart from Alina Ibragimova, Martha Argerich from Lugano and Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting Rachmaninov feature this week.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2017
30th Aug 2017
Semyon Bychkov's persuasive reading of Tchaikovsky's Manfred is among Katherine's favourites of the month, alongside a long-forgotten Shakespearian opera by one of Verdi's early champions.
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New Release Round-up - 25th August 2017
25th Aug 2017
Pianists Nelson Freire, Alexei Lubimov and Rudolf Serkin, and conductors Semyon Bychkov and Mark Minkowski are amongst the artists featured this week.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2017
23rd Aug 2017
Chris introduces the picks of this month's heavyweights, including collections focusing on Maria Callas, Daniel Barenboim, Rudolf Serkin and Joshua Bell.
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Maria Callas – Live (out 15th September)
Maria Callas (soprano), Gino Bechi (Nabucco), Maria Callas (Abigaille), Amalia Pini (Fenena), Gino Sinimberghi (Ismaele), Iginio Riccò (Gran Sacerdote), Luciano della Pergola (Abdallo), Silvana Tenti (Anna), Rolando Panerai (Amfortas), Africo Baldelli (Parsifal), Maria Callas (Kundry), Boris Christoff (Gurnemanz), Giuseppe Modesti (Klingsor), Dmitri Lopatto (Titurel), Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi (Arrigo), Maria Callas (La Duchessa Elena), Enzo Mascherini (Guido di Montforte), Boris Christoff (Giovanni da Procida), Mario Frosini (Il Conte Vaudemont), Bruno Carmassi (Il Sire di Bethume), Mafalda Masini (Ninetta), Gino Sarri (Danieli), Aldo De Paolo (Tebaldo), Lido Pettini (Roberto), Breno Ristori (Manfredo), Maria Callas (Aida), Mario del Monaco (Radamès), Oralia Domínguez (Amneris), Giuseppe Taddei (Amonasro), Roberto Silva (Ramphis), Ignacio Ruffino (Il Re di Egitto), Rosa Rodríguez (Una Sacerdotessa), Carlos Sagarminaga (Un Messaggero), Maria Callas (Armida), Francesco Albanese (Rinaldo), Mario Filippeschi (Gernando), Gianni Raimondi (Eustazio), Alessandro Ziliani (Goffredo), Antonio Salvarezza (Ubaldo), Mario Frosini (Idradote), Marco Stefanoni (Astarotte), Giuseppe di Stefano (Duca di Mantova), Maria Callas (Gilda), Piero Campolonghi (Rigoletto), Ignacio Ruffino (Sparafucile), María Teresa García (Maddalena), Ana María Feuss (Giovanna), Gilberto Cerda (Monterone), Alberto Herrera (Marullo), Carlos Sagarminaga (Borsa), Francisco Alonso (Conte di Ceprano), Edna Patoni (Contessa di Ceprano), Maria Callas (Norma), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Mirto Picchi (Pollione), Giacomo Vaghi (Oroveso), Joan Sutherland (Clotilde), Paul Asciak (Flavio), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Italo Tajo (Banco), Gino Penno (Macduff), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro), Gino Penno (Giasone), Maria Callas (Medea), Maria Luisa Nache (Glauce), Fedora Barbieri (Neris), Giuseppe Modesti (Creonte), Enrico Campi (Capitano), Angela Vercelli (Prima Ancella), Maria Amadini (Seconda Ancella), Maria Callas (Alceste), Renato Gavarini (Admète), Paolo Silveri (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Rolando Panerai (Apollon), Giuseppe Zampieri (Evandre), Nicola Zaccaria (La voix de l'Oracle), Silvio Maionica (Dieu infernal), Enrico Campi (Un Héraut), Franco Corelli (Licinius), Maria Callas (Giulia), Ebe Stignani (Gran Vestale), Enzo Sordello (Cinna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Grande Sacerdote), Vittorio Tatozzi (Un Console), Nicola Zaccaria (Aruspice), Mario del Monaco (Andrea Chénier), Aldo Protti (Carlo Gérard), Maria Amadini (La Contessa di Coigny), Silvana Zanolli (La mulatta Bersi), Lucia Danieli (Madelon), Cesare Valletti (Elvino), Maria Callas (Amina), Giuseppe Modesti (Rodolfo), Gabriella Carturan (Teresa), Eugenia Ratti (Lisa), Pier Luigi Latinucci (Alessio), Giuseppe Nessi (Notaro), Maria Callas (Lucia), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Edgardo), Rolando Panerai (Enrico), Nicola Zaccaria (Raimondo), Maria Callas (Anna Bolena), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Enrico), Gianni Raimondi (Percy), Plinio Clabassi (Rochefort), Gabriella Carturan (Smeton), Luigi Rumbo (Hervey), Maria Callas (Iphigénie), Francesco Albanese (Pylade), Anselmo Colzani (Thoas), Fiorenza Cossotto (Diane), Maria Callas (Violetta), Alfredo Kraus (Alfredo), Mario Sereni (Germont), Laura Zannini (Flora), Maria Cristina de Castro (Annina), Piero De Palma (Gastone), Alessandro Maddalena (Dottore Grenvil), Álvaro Malta (Barone Douphol), Vito Susca (Marchese d'Obigny), Maria Callas (Imogene), Pier Miranda Ferraro (Gualtiero), Regina Sarfaty (Sarfaty), Costantino Ego (Ernesto), Glade Peterson (Goffredo), Chester Watson (Itulbo), Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastianini (Severo), Nicola Zaccaria (Callistene), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia) Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, RAI Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Palacio de las Bellas Artes, Teatro alla Scala, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, American Opera Society, Covent Garden, Vittorio Gui, Erich Kleiber, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Tullio Serafin, Umberto Mugnai, Victor de Sabata, Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Antonino Votto, Herbert von Karajan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Nino Sanzogno, Franco Ghione, Nicola Rescigno, Carlo Felice Cillario
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New Release Round-up - 18th August 2017
18th Aug 2017
Box sets dedicated to pianist Daniel Barenboim and violinist Joshua Bell, as well as music by Elliott Carter and Peter Maxwell Davies are just some of the new releases this week.
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Forthcoming recordings from great pianists
16th Aug 2017
Chris rounds up ten of the most promising piano recitals coming up this autumn, including magisterial live Beethoven from Evgeny Kissin.
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Gramophone Awards 2017 - the top three in each category
16th Aug 2017
The final contenders in each of the twelve genres were revealed this morning…
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2017
14th Aug 2017
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with a fresh new Mendelssohn cycle from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe taking pride of place…
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New Release Round-up - 11th August 2017
11th Aug 2017
Stravinsky from violinist Ilya Gringolts and conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Richard Strauss from soprano Louise Alder and Shostakovich's ballet 'The Golden Age' are just a selection of the highlights from this week's releases.
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Presto CD - 20 new Sony and RCA titles
10th Aug 2017
Lucia Popp's final recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs (made just months before her death) is among this week's reissues.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2017 Choices
9th Aug 2017
Chris introduces this month's choices, with a baroque recital from one of the stars of last night's Prom taking pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Forthcoming vocal highlights for the autumn
8th Aug 2017
Mozart from Juan Diego Flórez, Wagner from Michael Volle, French song from Thomas Hampson, and imaginative tributes to two stars of the nineteenth-century Paris opera.
