🎹Gramophone presents The Great Pianists – out now!
Discover the finest performers, their repertoire and recordings in our 100-page collectors' edition 👇
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The great conductor Seiji Ozawa has died at the age of 88. As a tribute we reprint an article by Philip Clark from 2014 reflecting on Ozawa's life and career up to that point... gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…
The great pianist Alfred Brendel has died at the age of 94. Revisit our most recent podcast interview with Brendel, recorded to celebrate his 90th birthday... gramophone.co.uk/classical%20mu…
"Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life."
Happy birthday Yo-Yo Ma! 🎈
When Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring sparked a riot at it's premiere in 1913, it is unlikely that the composer dreamed, amid the maelstrom, that one day the piece would be reinvented in such an inspired way - played by three melodica virtuosos...
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Happy birthday Johann Sebastian Bach! Bach has been called 'the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music'. He is to music what Leonardo da Vinci is to art and Shakespeare is to literature, one of the supreme creative geniuses of history. bit.ly/2pnoXJc
Happy birthday Gustav Mahler!
Mahler is the last great Romantic symphonist.
He wanted to express his view of the human condition, to set down his lofty ideals about Life, Death and the Universe.
Discover him here > bit.ly/2FX76RV
The great pianist Alfred Brendel has died at the age of 94. Here are 10 of his most outstanding albums, from the early recordings to the farewell concerts... gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…