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Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: the complete guide | Gramophone
WEBFrom £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. A complete guide to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, including how audiences, performers and the composer himself have responded to this iconic ...
Top 10 String Quartets - Gramophone
WEBFrom £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. Tracing the evolution of the string quartet from Haydn to Britten, via some of the greatest recordings available.
The 50 best Beethoven recordings - Gramophone
WEBIf you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Takács Quartet ...
Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: which recording is best?
WEBJoaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is arguably one of the most popular concertos of all time, thanks in no small measure to the extraordinary beauty of its central Adagio, which has been arranged for everything from mouth organ to brass band.This popularity has perhaps obscured the fact that the concerto is also one of the most original masterpieces of the 20th century, despite its ...
The 50 best Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings - Gramophone
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What is a Minuet? - Gramophone
WEBFull website access. From £ 11. 00 / month. Subscribe. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. Tracing the musical history of the Minuet – a popular dance form that fascinated composers for more than 200 years.
The World's Greatest Orchestras - Gramophone
WEBThe World's Greatest Orchestras. Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The votes are in. Time to celebrate the best of the best. It’s a classical title showdown! Swapping gloves for glissandi and punches for prestos, players from around the globe square up for the hotly contested spot of World’s Best Symphony Orchestra.
250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's ...
WEBTchaikovsky The Queen of Spades. Kirov Op / Valery Gergiev. Philips. A marvellously consistent recording of this tricky but volcanic opera. Tubin Complete Symphonies. Kratt. Estonian Nat SO / Arvo Volmer. Alba. Impressive performances of an Estonian composer.
A Complete Guide To The Best Recordings - Gramophone
WEBOld impulses prove impossible to extinguish. And the instincts of the musically literate must be to explain a composer’s extra-musical programme in terms of music, which in the case of Richard Strauss’s 1896 tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra leaves us listening through two-way harmonic glass: the white-note harmony of C reflected against the distant borderland five sharps of B major.
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