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Handel's Messiah: a complete guide to the best recordings

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

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The perennial fame of Handel’s oratorio has inspired a host of contrasting approaches to text and performance. David Vickers mulls over the finest recordings

The best Handel recordings of 2022: Editor's Choice

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

| Gramophone

Featuring outstanding Handel recordings from The English Concert and Harry Bicket, Francesco Corti, Emőke Baráth, Philippe Jaroussky and more

How Mozart loved Handel

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

| Gramophone

Lindsay Kemp explores the link between the two great composers...

Video of the day: breathtaking Handel from the OAE

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

| Gramophone

The behind-the-scenes story of an imaginative – and dramatic – campaign to inspire new audiences

The Best Classical Albums of 2021

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Friday, December 31, 2021

| Gramophone

Featuring Hilary Hahn, Leif Ove Andsnes, Nathalie Stutzmann, Stephen Hough and many more – all of these outstanding classical albums were selected as Editor's Choice by Gramophone in 2021

Critics' Choice: our favourite classical albums of 2022

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Monday, December 19, 2022

| Gramophone

Gramophone's reviewers choose their personal favourite classical albums of 2022

Handel's home reopens after £3m restoration

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

| Gramophone

The London life of the composer - and that of Jimi Hendrix - explored with astonishing attention to detail

The Mysteries, Myths, and Truths about Mr Handel

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

| Gramophone

David Vickers takes an in-depth look at the composer, his life, and works...

A brief history of classical music

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Friday, February 24, 2023

| Gramophone

A guided tour of the key composers and artistic movements that have made classical music the rich art-form that today still entrances, moves and uplifts

Top 10 Opera Composers

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

| Gramophone

A beginner's guide tracing the extraordinary development of opera from Monteverdi in the 17th century to Saariaho today, via the masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Britten

Introducing the April 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Klaus Mäkelä

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Friday, March 18, 2022

| Gramophone

Klaus Mäkelä: superb Sibelius from the most talked-about conductor of his generation | Handel’s Messiah: the finest recordings to hear | Johan Dalene: the young violinist’s concerto album | Glenn Gould: the making of a piano icon

The Best Classical Music Albums of 2022

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Monday, December 12, 2022

| Gramophone

Our guide to the most outstanding new classical music albums of 2022. Featuring sensational new versions of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Beethoven's symphonies, Vivaldi's violin concertos and much more

The 50 greatest George Frideric Handel recordings

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

| Gramophone

The definitive guide to the 50 greatest Handel recordings, featuring extracts from the original Gramophone reviews

What is a Minuet?

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

| Gramophone

Tracing the musical history of the Minuet – a popular dance form that fascinated composers for more than 200 years

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: January 2022 | The best new classical recordings

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

| Gramophone

The best new classical recordings reviewed in the January 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Lise Davidsen & Leif Ove Andsnes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Sol Gabetta, Cecilia Bartoli and more...

Top 10 Baroque composers

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

| Gramophone

From around 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period witnessed the creation of some of the greatest musical masterpieces ever composed. Here's our beginner's guide to the greatest composers of the Baroque period

What is a Concerto?

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| Gramophone

Discover the Concerto – the variously collaborative and competitive musical form that keeps on reinventing itself

George Frideric Handel: six years in a life

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

| Gramophone

Richard Wigmore explores Handel’s work through the lens of six pivotal years in his life, relating to both his music and his biography

Handel conquers London

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Friday, August 10, 2012

| Gramophone

Richard Wigmore marks the 300th anniversary of Handel's era-defining move to London in 1712

The English Concert embarks on an ambitious project to film and release Handel's complete works online

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

| Gramophone

A defiant vote of confidence in classical music: The English Concert plans to create a digital library of Handel's 42 operas, 29 oratorios, and more, making them freely accessible to all

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Handel's Messiah: a complete guide to the best recordings

The best Handel recordings of 2022: Editor's Choice

How Mozart loved Handel

Video of the day: breathtaking Handel from the OAE

The Best Classical Albums of 2021

Critics' Choice: our favourite classical albums of 2022

Handel's home reopens after £3m restoration

The Mysteries, Myths, and Truths about Mr Handel

A brief history of classical music

Top 10 Opera Composers

Introducing the April 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Klaus Mäkelä

The Best Classical Music Albums of 2022

The 50 greatest George Frideric Handel recordings

What is a Minuet?

Gramophone Editor’s Choice: January 2022 | The best new classical recordings

Top 10 Baroque composers

What is a Concerto?

George Frideric Handel: six years in a life

Handel conquers London

The English Concert embarks on an ambitious project to film and release Handel's complete works online

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