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The 50 best Mozart recordings

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  • Wednesday, November 1, 2023
    • | Gramophone
50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus 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

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

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 Operas

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | Gramophone
The essential operas by the greatest composers - a beginner's guide

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

Top 10 piano sonatas

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  • Thursday, February 3, 2022
    • | Gramophone
From Mozart to Prokofiev, here's a beginner's guide to 10 of the greatest piano sonatas ever written

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 Symphony Composers

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  • Friday, January 28, 2022
    • | Gramophone
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

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

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

Introducing the January 2022 issue of Gramophone

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2022
    • | Gramophone
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

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

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