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From the hundreds of classical CDs Gramophone reviews each month, editor James Inverne selects 10 outstanding recordings.

Select an issue to view the Editor's Choice: 
Bizet - Carmen Suite; L'Arlesienne Suites
Naïve V5130
Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
Minkowski moves into pole position with this fabulous new disc of familiar fare more...

Bax - Tone Poems, Vol 2
Chandos CHAN10446
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley
A magnificent survey from Bax's ardent champion plus a treasurable coupling more...

 
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas, Vol 4
Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1909/11
Paul Lewis
Schnabel, Kempff, Brendel are great but Lewis gives you the best of all worlds more...

 
Beethoven - Symphonies
Zig Zag Territoires ZZT080402/6
Anima Eterna / Anima Eterna
A few misfiring moments, but this Belgian cycle is nevertheless a stimulating, exhilerating experience more...

 
Hiller - Piano Concertos
Hyperion CDA67655
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra / Howard Shelley
The indefatigable Shelley puts us in his debt again by uncovering these gems more...

 
Mahler- Symphony No 6
LSO Live LSO0661
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
In the hall it thrills but on disc can you live with this power-house Mahler? more...

 
Marc-André Hamelin - In a state of Jazz
Hyperion CDA67656
Marc-André Hamelin
It's not jazz as we know it but Hamelin spins us into a glittering wonderland more...

 
Pickard - The Flight of Icarus
BIS BISCD1578
Christian Lindberg. Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
Three scintillating works by the remarkably gifted British composer, all skilfully played more...

 
Puccini - La bohème
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6600
Anna Netrebko sop Mimì Rolando Villazón ten Rodolfo, et al Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Bertrand de Billy
A starry pairing in golden form elevate this Bohème to classic status more...

 
Reich - Daniel Variations
Nonesuch 7559 799494
Los Angeles Master Chorale / Grant Gershon
Tha dark, unsettling sound world that Reich conjured from an execution more...

 
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