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The 10 Best Mozart Works – A Beginner's List

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Here are 10 essential works that gave an idea of breadth, and more important, depth of Mozart's musical genius. Perfect for those discovering his music for the first time.

Mozart's Symphony No 40: A deep dive into the best recordings

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s penultimate symphony is perhaps his most popular. Richard Wigmore surveys a selection of recordings – and busts a few Mozartian myths along the way

Introducing the January 2022 issue of Gramophone

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

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Elsa Dreisig: The soprano’s fresh new take on Mozart | Grieg’s Piano Concerto: We name the finest recordings to hear | Michael Collins at 60: The clarinettist returns to the Brahms sonatas | Giovanni Antonini: The conductor on the genius of Haydn

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

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

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This month we feature outstanding new albums from Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough, Marc-André Hamelin, Francesca Aspromonte, Jeanine De Bique and The Hermes Experiment

Top 10 Symphony Composers

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Friday, January 28, 2022

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After the extraordinary musical developments of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven the composition of a symphony became a daunting challenge, for many years the ultimate challenge for any composer. Many rose magnificently to that challenge, not least Brahms, Mahler, Sibelius and Shostakovich

Mozart's Symphony No 41, 'Jupiter': 10 Great Recordings (with Rob Cowan and James Jolly)

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

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Rob Cowan and James Jolly discuss their favourite recordings of Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony and choose a modern recommendation for the piece

Leif Ove Andsnes interview: ‘It’s amazing what happens in three years of Mozart’s life’

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Friday, May 28, 2021

| Gramophone

Despite Covid’s devastating tidal-wave effect on the music world, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has miraculously salvaged his Mozart Momentum project for Sony Classical. He is amazed and grateful, he tells Hugo Shirley in Berlin

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

Top 10 piano sonatas

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

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From Mozart to Prokofiev, here's a beginner's guide to 10 of the greatest piano sonatas ever written

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): a guide to the best recordings

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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The Magic Flute was a welcome operatic success for Mozart during his hectic final year. Richard Wigmore considers ten decades of recordings of this enchanting masterpiece

Video: Mozart in London – Ian Page in conversation with James Jolly

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

| Gramophone

Conductor Ian Page discusses the July issue's Recording of the Month, 'Mozart in London', with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly

Top 10 Classical era Composers

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Monday, January 24, 2022

| Gramophone

The Classical era was dominated by many of the greatest composers in the history of music, including Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert

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

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

Mozart: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

| Gramophone

Here is every Mozart recording to have won a Gramophone Award since 1977

Top 10 Piano Concertos

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

| Gramophone

An introduction to 10 of the greatest piano concertos – from Mozart to Rachmaninov – with highly recommended recordings

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

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

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

Editor's Choice: April 2023 | The best new classical recordings

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Friday, March 17, 2023

| Gramophone

Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford selects the 12 best recordings from the April issue's reviews

Video of the Day: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Manchester Camerata)

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

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Manchester Camerata and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet give a wonderful performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9

Introducing the February 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Joyce DiDonato

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

| Gramophone

Joyce Didonato: The mezzo’s mission to help us reconnect with nature - and with ourselves | Schubert’s Winterreise: Benjamin Appl records the powerful song-cycle | Mozart’s Symphony No 40: Which is the best recording of this ever-popular work?

Elsa Dreisig’s fresh new take on Mozart: ‘In this business, these “rules” we have are not actually real. It’s first of all about interpretation’

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

| Gramophone

For her new album, French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig has turned on its head every preconception about the characters in Mozart’s operas, portraying credible, sympathetic women who have lived real, often messy lives, discovers Neil Fisher

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

Top 10 violin concertos

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

| Gramophone

An introduction to 10 of the greatest violin concertos with highly recommended recordings

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The 10 Best Mozart Works – A Beginner's List

Mozart's Symphony No 40: A deep dive into the best recordings

Introducing the January 2022 issue of Gramophone

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

Top 10 Symphony Composers

Mozart's Symphony No 41, 'Jupiter': 10 Great Recordings (with Rob Cowan and James Jolly)

Leif Ove Andsnes interview: ‘It’s amazing what happens in three years of Mozart’s life’

The Best Classical Albums of 2021

Top 10 piano sonatas

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): a guide to the best recordings

Video: Mozart in London – Ian Page in conversation with James Jolly

Top 10 Classical era Composers

Critics' Choice: our favourite classical albums of 2022

A brief history of classical music

Mozart: the Gramophone Award-winning recordings

Top 10 Piano Concertos

Top 10 Opera Composers

The Best Classical Music Albums of 2022

What is a Minuet?

Editor's Choice: April 2023 | The best new classical recordings

Video of the Day: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Manchester Camerata)

Introducing the February 2022 issue of Gramophone, featuring Joyce DiDonato

Elsa Dreisig’s fresh new take on Mozart: ‘In this business, these “rules” we have are not actually real. It’s first of all about interpretation’

What is a Concerto?

Top 10 violin concertos

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