![]() The best recordings of Holst's The Planets.Régine Crespin knew that, which is why her performance of these two song cycles practically seems to exist out of time and space…( read more)Īt the height of the Cold War, the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under its legendary principal conductor Evgeny Mravinsky visited Britain in September 1960, giving sensational concerts in Edinburgh and London which drew ecstatic responses from both press and public…( read more) Ravel/Berlioz: Shéhérazade/Nuits d'étéĮscapism is what Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Berlioz’s Nuits d’été and have in common. This superlative recording, made in London in 1952 and never out of the catalogue, was the first complete one of Tristan und Isolde, and contains several lengthy passages from the love duet in Act II and Tristan’s delirium in Act III that many lovers of the work had never heard before…( read more)Ĩ. An interview with composer Philip Venables.Some say it’s the red-hot personality, others that it’s the du Pré-Barenboim love story, still others that the tragic emotions evoked in the music foreshadow the tragedy that later befell the performer…( read more) ![]() It was the legendary recording producer Walter Legge who brought the 29-year-old Maria Callas to the EMI stable in 1953, thereafter recording with her between two and four operas each year until the end of the decade…( read more) The best Proms in history: our top picks.Given this is now such a historic landmark, it seems strange to recall that executives at Columbia had misgivings about Glenn Gould recording the Goldberg Variations…( read more) ‘I thought Mozart and Verdi had said it all: I was wrong.’ So spoke the usually sceptical Ernst Roth, Britten’s publisher, after the momentous 1962 premiere of the War Requiem at the consecration of Coventry Cathedral…( read more) But his LP of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, issued in 1975, was recognised as a classic…( read more) The reclusive Carlos Kleiber – voted the most inspiring conductor of all time in a poll of eminent current practitioners in BBC Music’s April 2011 issue – was a rare visitor to the recording studio. But at a stroke – Donner’s awesome hammerstroke in Rheingold, to be precise, the loudest sound then recorded – Decca’s new venture was to galvanise classical recording, and begin a new era… ( read more) ‘But of course you’ll never sell any.’ To him it was just an obscure, prestige project. ‘Very nice,’ sneered a rival producer, hearing that Decca were embarking on the Ring. And here are the results… To read more about each recording click on the title of the disc or the cover image. But which are the greatest, the ones that no collection should be without? We asked the BBC Music Magazine critics to vote on the top 50 recordings of all time. Each month at BBC Music Magazine we receive hundreds of recordings, and hundreds of thousands have been made since the advent of recorded sound.
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