I pose the question because so often lay listeners assume that performers and critics hear music in the same way, and very often they don’t. This sensation of meaningful sharing is much the same as when critics talk to like-minded colleagues: the idea is to focus an authentic reaction. Gramophone is brought to you by Menu. Est 1923 Audiobooks Blues Classical Instrumental Classical Vocal Composers Early Music Folk Jazz Instrumental Jazz Vocal Miscellaneous Musicals Opera Popular ... Gramophone 250 Best of all time. Gramophone is brought to you by Biographies, concerts and videos about artists, conductors and composers. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to The best classical music reviews, news, playlists, features and blogs from Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine. The website for classical music: Find the latest DG and Archiv recordings and news. Find out which artists, which works and which recordings are essential to your collection! The best new classical albums: Editor's Choice, March 2020 Martin Cullingford Wednesday, February 26, 2020 . But where a performer incorporates those experiences into an interpretation, we have to write about them, though there are plenty of verbally eloquent musicians around – Alfred Brendel, for example.
250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's leading musicians Gramophone Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Yefim Bronfman pf Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich / David Zinman Brilliant Classics (originally Arte Nova) This Zurich performance of the First Concerto is beautifully articulated. Receive a weekly collection of news, features and reviews And what of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet choosing Carlos Kleiber’s But “musicians as critics” is also at times a rather complex issue. Complete Collections - Rachmaninoff - Complete Recordings . Which might explain the occasional oddball recommendation. Simon Callow talks to conductor Sir Simon Rattle about recording Janáček′s The Cunning Little Vixen... That’s surely the hub of a Pinnock drives his English Concert to joyful heightsThis recording is justly regarded as a flowing, unforced classicSchiff offers a more modern, characteristically intelligent and powerful accountDazzling, continuously surprising playing from Gidon KremerCasals magnificently made the case for these now much-recorded worksDance is the watchword for Isserlis’s joyful traversal, superbly playedAdventure and rich imagination – one of the Hagen Quartet’s finest albumsFreshly conceived, Harnoncourt reinvents Beethoven for our age on period instrumentsBeethoven in all his fury and might, Solti-style, with the Chicago players in blazing formBeethoven as conceived by Furtwängler: leave your preconceptions at the doorBy turns incendiary and incandescent, this is a magnificent FifthOne of the all-time great recordings – Kleiber and the Vienna Philharmonic are electricMore flexible than his reputation would suggest, and Toscanini’s NBC are irresistibleMagical playing from two titans in perfect accord with each anotherDaring and decorum in equal measure in this landmark sonata cycleCharacteristic insight and intelligence from Brendel, Beethoven as poetryGould as ever is his own man, which is to say, a genius – to somePollini is a structural master – “One huge exhalation of creative breath”, said Gould’s unique take on Berg’s early work still fascinates todayLovely singing enhances Seiji Ozawa’s showpiece conceptionIf it’s Berlioz, say many, it has to be Colin Davis!Harnoncourt’s Brahms is idiomatic, though there’s plenty of fascinating musical explorationPower and elegance go hand in hand with Giulini’s Brahms, with the VPO on terrific formIncandescent, elemental playing from the Berliners under FurtwänglerThe great partnership of the Vienna Phil and Giulini caught at its finestSoloist and conductor at their peaks, an old favouriteHeifetz as ever is technically brilliant but wonderfully songful here, tooRevelations pour over each other from one of the great Brahmsians of our dayThe third quartet here was written for these players, and they play superblyJochum’s Eighth is his weak point but Karajan’s radiates warmth and splendourAmazing playing and bold insights go hand in hand with PletnevScintillating expressiveness in a recording that is part of gramophone historyThere’s a compelling intensity of character to these dazzling performancesBy turns explosive and searchingly lyrical, Kertész’s is the classic Dvořák setNeumann’s rival to Kertész features terrific playingGeorgeously lyrical and integrated playing from the Beaux Arts TrioRestless, probing interpretations in the composer’s knowing handsFauré’s choral works reimagined for boys’ choir and organA spectacular, heartfelt Vietnam memorial from Copland pupil Elliott GoldenthalAlert, alive and light-footed, Manze and the players clearly have a ballA fine example of the music of French electronic-school composer Pierre HenryBrilliant playing in a set often unfairly overlookedKodály was a great János Starker admirer and the cellist here shows whyKorngold’s film score turned into a tone-poem and evocatively conducted by John MauceriBernstein in earth-shaking form with the Israel PhilKubelík, one of the first and among the finest Mahler advocatesBernstein again, this time with the polish of the New York PhilharmonicBernstein had to persuade the Austrians to love Mahler, with fabulous resultsKubelík in the studio is great, live he’s even betterViolent intensity and sweetness in Rattle’s Vienna Mahler NinthPassion and commitment in Rattle’s overpowering championing of Mahler’s Tenth SymphonyMusic of devotion and playing of simply stunning virtuosityEnnio Morricone’s seminal music from the 1986 Jeremy Irons filmTwo great pianists, one great sonata captured at Snape MaltingsThe bright young thing’s genre-defying collection of miniaturesAs unique as they are unpredictable, these studies are revelatory ear-openersEvery detail can be heard with razor-sharp clarity on this supreme discThe blazing live performances that won Gergiev his job at the helm of the LSOArgerich’s response is utterly personal and vivaciousSizzling account of a difficult-to-pin-down concertoAn exciting live recording from Amsterdam, featuring a young Anna NetrebkoA fine recording, immaculately delivered, and boasting some exceptional soloistsConnolly’s exquisitely sung Dido leads a great castGlorious playing and wonderful, expansive conducting from a true podium masterThe first virtuoso pianist-composer of the recording era: these discs remain fascinatingA compelling work that beautifully captures the Finnish composer’s evocative sound worldRégine Crespin at her idiosyncratic, seductive bestReich’s response to the tragic human cost of war is authoritatively performedAn equally moving response, the Smith players’ recording is paired with another minimalist classicA conceptual exercise that created a work of surprising musical beauty using mobile ringtonesSalonen’s celebration of architecture and nature – incorporating Frank Gehry’s voiceKleiber’s laser-like concentration brought to bear on Schubert’s EighthFurtwängler pushes forwards with excitement but also with an awareness of the work’s architectureExcellent balance between strings and piano, super-sensitive playing from GilelsSzell’s typically classical approach produces a full, natural orchestral soundBostridge interprets all these songs as much through the mind of the poet as the composerSofronitsky was so associated with these works, he was even married to Scriabin’s daughterMravinsky premiered six Shostakovich symphonies and that frisson is conveyed hereThe Borodins’ no-nonsense, uninhibited approach suits this diverse work perfectlyDavis’s second Sibelius cycle yielded this utterly convincing and natural recordingKleiber picked his operas carefully and this is a flamboyant treatOne of Karajan’s signature, and most refulgent, BPO recordingsLively, stylish and individual, Ansermet’s Stravinsky was always an eventUnbelievably intense power comes from Rattle’s attention to the tiniest detailsPrecision and seismic power from Boulez and the Cleveland OrchestraGergiev makes you listen anew and finds elemental furySuperbly gripping Tchaikovsky from Markevitch and his London forcesSlavonically intense, sometimes at breakneck speeds – these are old favouritesThe Vienna strings are exceptional for Gergiev’s full-bodied A marvellously consistent recording of this tricky but volcanic operaNo one conjured the terror of the heavens in this work like ToscaniniPavarotti enjoys himself in Ponnelle’s sumptuous film, but Ingvar Wixell is a blistering RigolettoA benchmark recording of the Victoria Requiem from Peter Phillips’s Tallis ScholarsWieniawski-champion Heifetz presents an ardent caseCommitted performances from Tamayo’s Luxembourg forcesYsaÿe playing his own recordings – a real collector’s itemA lovely collection celebrating the brilliant Heifetz protégé, beautifully recordedThe great cellist meets Bobby McFerrin in this fabulously unique albumHard-to-categorise improvisations by the German pianistThe unique Maria Callas caught at her most histrionically impressiveA rich anthology presented with soul-stirring animationSuperb New Year’s Day concerts from Vienna under Carlos KleiberAncient chant meets jazz-style improvisation in this remarkable discA wonderfully compiled and performed medieval music surveyWit and imaginative richness from the inter-war years
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