Recordings

Recordings

Handel's Messiah: the best recordings of this festive choral masterpiece

We name the best recordings of of Handel’s Messiah, a choral masterpiece that should have everyone shouting Hallelujah!
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Mozart Sinfonia Concertante: lively, sorrowful, utterly beautiful. A guide to this extraordinary work and its best recordings

A guide to Mozart's lively, sorrowful and beautiful work for violin, viola and orchestra, and some of the best recorded versions available
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Best Beethoven recordings of all time: 20 great moments in Beethoven recording history

We name the best albums and recordings every Beethoven lover needs to add to their collection
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Appalachian Spring: Aaron Copland's masterful evocation of America's wide open spaces

The 1940s ballet Appalachian Spring has become one of Copland’s most popular works. And its true American spirit has inspired many great recordings, finds Anthony Burton
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Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic: seven of the best recordings

The British conductor spent 16 years at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic. Together, they created landmark recordings of some of classical music's best loved works
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Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances: four great recordings of this masterpiece - and one to avoid

The greatest recordings on disc of the Russian composer Rachmaninov's final orchestral masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances, full of vibrant colour and driving rhythms
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Brahms Symphony No. 3: a guide to his most enigmatic symphony and its best recordings

Terry Williams finds the best recordings of Brahms’s Third, one of the composer’s greatest triumphs yet one of his most paradoxical pieces
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The Planets by Holst: a guide to this truly cosmic work and its best recordings

We bring you the best recordings of each movement of Holst's The Planets
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Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor: a guide to a great chamber work and its best recordings

Jo Talbot celebrates the ‘Mozart of the 19th century’ as she searches out the finest recordings of this masterful work for piano, violin and cello
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: the best recordings

We rank the essential albums of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the pioneering film composer, electronic artist and solo performer
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Six of the best landmark jazz recordings

Jazz has undergone many changes of style over the last century, not least with the arrival of rock music. Neil McKim picks out some pivotal concerts
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Five of the best albums by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck's rhythmic and tonal free-wheeling helped him become the epitome of 1950s and ’60s cool. We name his best recordings on disc
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The best jazz albums released in 2021 so far

A list of the greatest jazz albums released in 2021, as chosen by BBC Music Magazine critics Garry Booth, Barry Witherden and Roger Thomas
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