Gramophone Features

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

In the composer's centenary year Andrew Achenbach celebrates Coleridge-Taylor's life and music

Rattle and the Berlin Phil: 10 best recordings
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Rattle and the Berlin Phil: 10 best recordings

Gramophone recommends the greatest recordings from Rattle's tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic

Remembering Serge Koussevitzky - on his birthday
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Remembering Serge Koussevitzky - on his birthday

A Gramophone article from 1945 written while the great conductor still headed the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Lord Berners' 1924 opera receives a UK premiere
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Lord Berners' 1924 opera receives a UK premiere

Peter Dickinson introduces this rare stage work ahead of its Dorset premiere

Some anniversary recommendations for Mozart's Symphony No 40
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Some anniversary recommendations for Mozart's Symphony No 40

A quartet of recent recordings we've enjoyed

Top 10 Classical Music Moments in Cinema
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Top 10 Classical Music Moments in Cinema

The greatest scene-stealing scores by Mozart, Wagner, Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Barber, Mahler, Strauss and Mascagni

Herbert von Karajan Remembered
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Herbert von Karajan Remembered

To mark the anniversary of Karajan's death, we reprint Richard Osborne's tribute from 1989