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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2014
19th Sep 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from the recent Awards Issue, with Rinaldo Alessandrini's new Monteverdi disc taking pride of place.
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Monteverdi Vespri solenni per la Festa di San Marco
Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass) Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Disc of the Year and Special Categories
17th Sep 2014
And the overall winner is …
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Full details of all the Winners
17th Sep 2014
Chris reports from the ceremony at St John's Smith Square with details of all this years winners, including the coveted Record of the Year.
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Simon Keenlyside sings show-tunes
28th Aug 2014
The great British baritone takes a break from Rigolettos and Traviatas to try his hand at Tevye, Curly, Billy Bigelow and Fagin…
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Category Winners
27th Aug 2014
The Pavel Haas Quartet, Jonas Kaufmann and Mahan Esfahani are among the winners.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2014
21st Aug 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from this month's issue, with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor taking the laurels for Dances on Decca Classics.
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Finalists
20th Aug 2014
Revealed today - the top three recordings in each category.
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Presto CD - More Gramophone Award and Rosette winners are back
6th Aug 2014
Introducing the latest batch of discs on our Manufacture On Demand label, focusing on more Gramophone Award and Penguin Rosette Winners.
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Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
5th Aug 2014
New album will explore music written for three tsarinas in eighteenth-century St Petersburg.
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Gerstein records Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
2nd Aug 2014
Russian-American Pianist Kirill Gerstein is set to make the world premiere recording of the rare 2nd edition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, alongside Prokofiev's No. 2.
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Shortlist
1st Aug 2014
Gramophone have just revealed details of the 72 recordings in the running for the 2014 Awards - and what a line-up it is this year!
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Music to commemorate the First World War
29th Jul 2014
David picks out some recordings of works particularly closely linked to the Great War - those written in response to it, or influenced by composers' experiences of the fighting.
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Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden
Makoto Tanaka (tenor), Tsuyoshi Mihara (baritone), Nobuaki Yoshida (tenor), Kazuko Nagai (mezzo-soprano), Tetsuya Uno (bass), Miki Sahashi (soprano), Emi Sawahata (soprano), Kei Fukui (tenor), Siegfried Lorenz (baritone) Tokyo Symphony Chorus, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama
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Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia
23rd Jul 2014
Star countertenors Max Cencic and Franco Fagioli go head-to-head in the first-ever recording of Johann Adolf Hasse's 1733 opera.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2014
22nd Jul 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from this month's issue, which hits the shops today - featuring Prokofiev on the violin, Rachmaninov on the piano and more.
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Kasper Holten's Don Giovanni
16th Jul 2014
A provocative production of Mozart's "rake's progress" from the director of the Royal Opera House is to be released on DVD in the autumn.
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Presto CD - British Music Collection - Part 2
9th Jul 2014
Chris introduces the second batch of British Music Collection discs on our Manufacture On Demand label…
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Frederick Delius
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Charles Mackerras, Richard Hickox
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Joyce DiDonato - Stella di Napoli
5th Jul 2014
The American mezzo explores the highways and byways of Neapolitan bel canto for her next project…
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Manon Lescaut from Covent Garden
3rd Jul 2014
Plans are afoot for a DVD release of Jonathan Kent's current production from the Royal Opera House, starring Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann as the doomed lovers.
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky) Orquestra De La Comunitat Valenciana & Cor De La Generalitat Valenciana, Omer Meir Wellber
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Presto CD - British Music Collection - Part 1
24th Jun 2014
Chris introduces the latest crop of Presto CDs, focusing on the British Music Collection from the archives of Philips, Decca and Argo.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2014
21st Jun 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from this month's issue, which hit the news-stands yesterday.
