Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-up - 17th February 2017
17th Feb 2017
Included this week is a new recording of Handel's Catone on Glossa with Sonia Prina in the title role, plus choral releases from Les Arts Florissants and The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, and instrumental releases from cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Barry Douglas.
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Grammy Awards 2017
13th Feb 2017
Chris introduces the classical winners and nominees from last night's ceremony in Los Angeles.
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Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles
Victoria Livengood (Woman with Hat), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Louis XVI), Scott Scully (Marquis), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Joshua Guerrero (Count Almaviva), Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Renée Rapier (Cherubino), Patti LuPone (Samira) LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon
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New Release Round-up - 10th February 2017
10th Feb 2017
Rafał Blechacz plays Bach on the piano and Andreas Ottensamer explores the early clarinet repertoire. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva explores Handel, and Nina Stemme stars in a new production of Puccini's Turandot from La Scala, plus new releases from the choirs Gallicantus and Stile Antico also feature.
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New Release Round-up - 3rd February 2017
3rd Feb 2017
Italian opera overtures, preludes, and intermezzi from Riccardo Chailly and Filarmonica della Scala, chamber music from Höör Barock and the Leonore Piano Trio, and new recordings of works by Philip Glass and Ligeti feature in this week's round-up.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2017
2nd Feb 2017
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'flexible but coherent' account of Tchaikovsky's First Symphony.
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Sokolov's Rachmaninov 3 and other tempting treats
31st Jan 2017
Chris cherry-picks some highlights from the forthcoming releases, including a rare concerto disc from the elusive Russian pianist.
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New Release Round-up - 27th January 2017
27th Jan 2017
Chopin from Maurizio Pollini, twentieth-century solo cello works from Natalie Clein, Mozart Flute Quartets from Lisa Friend and the Brodsky Quartet, and Wagner's Das Liebesverbot from the Royal Opera House on DVD and Blu-ray are amongst this week's highlights.
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Kaufmann's Mahler and other mouth-watering delights!
20th Jan 2017
Katherine selects some highlights from the future releases, including the German tenor's one-man performance of Mahler's song-cycle.
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New Release Round-up - 20th January 2017
20th Jan 2017
Symphonies by Muzio Clementi, Schnittke from cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, the first album to be recorded on the new organ of the Paris Philharmonie from Olivier Latry, and a classic performance of Schubert's Winterreise are amongst the highlights of this week's new releases.
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Recordings of the Year 2016 - Photo Gallery
15th Jan 2017
A selection of our 2016 winners with their awards!
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2017 Choices
13th Jan 2017
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with a peerless Mozart Mass leading the way as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-up - 13th January 2017
13th Jan 2017
Brahms from the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, film music from William Alwyn and a staged version of Handel's oratorio Theodora starring Katherine Watson and Philippe Jaroussky are just some of the highlights this week.
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The Year 1917 – Music in Turbulent Times
Shlomo Mintz (violin), Anny Mory, Patricia Parker, John Mitchinson, Paul Hudson, Martha Argerich, Krystian Zimerman, Cyprien Katsaris, Homero Francesc, Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria João Pires (piano) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ian Bostridge (tenor), Boston Symphony Orchestr, Anna Prohaska (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Philippe Cassard, Monique Haas (piano), Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, English Bach Festival Percussion Ensemble, English Bach Festival Chorus, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Julius Drake (piano), William Steinberg, Eric Schneider (piano), Benjamin Britten (piano), Louis Frémaux, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Neeme Järvi
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2017
11th Jan 2017
Chris introduces this month's choices, with one of our own top 10 discs of 2016 leading the way as Record of the Month…
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New Release Round-up - 6th January 2017
6th Jan 2017
Including Bruckner's complete symphonies conducted by Daniel Barenboim, Beethoven from the Elias Quartet, Renée Fleming's new disc of Scandinavian music and a celebration of Mstislav Rostropovich as both cellist and conductor.
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Pappano records Saint-Saëns for Warner
22nd Dec 2016
Martha Argerich will join the Santa Cecilia Orchestra for Le carnaval des animaux.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2016
6th Dec 2016
Chris introduces this month's choices, with the latest instalment of a distinguished Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle leading the way as Recording of the Month.
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Diana Damrau releases for 2017
30th Nov 2016
Next year will bring DVDs of operas by Bizet, Salieri and Donizetti, plus a Meyerbeer recital disc in the spring, all on Warner Classics and Erato.
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico Ashton), Joseph Calleja (Edgardo Di Ravenswood), David Lee (Lord Arturo Bucklaw), Nicolas Testé (Raimondo Bidebent), Marie Mclaughlin (Alisa) & Andrew Lepri Meyer (Normanno) Münchener Opernchor & Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2016 Choices
24th Nov 2016
Chris introduces this month's choices - a round-up of the month's best releases in the operatic, concerto, instrumental, vocal and other genres.
