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For anyone whose first records went round 78 times a minutes and broke when you dropped them, Elgar, Holst and Delius were, if not quite modern music, the great English masters of the immediate past. They were dead less than ten years when I bought my first records, the wartime Boult set of The Planets. more >
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On This DayMaria Callas gives her last staged performance – as Puccini's Tosca at Covent Garden (1965)
CLASSIC REVIEW
THE CLASSIC REVIEW - Emil Gilels said of the Grieg Lyric Pieces that they "open up a great intimacy of feeling". How did his classic recording first fare in Gramophone's pages ?
Emil Gilels records Grieg's Lyric Pieces
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The 1950s were a fantastically exciting time for classical music. Maria Callas and Glenn Gould were becoming legendary figures that still excite passionate debate today, while the growth of the LP was radically changing home listening.
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Composer of the Week
Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. Apart from the final years of his life, he managed more successfully than any other Great Russian composer living under the dictatorship to maintain his...
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Artist of the Week
You may have trouble with the name (Yeer-zhee Bee-ell-oh-hlah-veck), but this Czech conductor has become major fixture on the international music scene
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