GRAMOPHONE JANEIRO 2013

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Gramophone Composer Guides: the best Giacomo Puccini recordings Over the past few months Gramophonehas been publishing a series of Composer Guides to the essential recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Claude Debussy,Ludwig van Beethoven,Johannes Brahms,Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel,Richard Wagner, Johann Sebastian Bach,Gustav Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Bruckner, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rachmaninov,Francis Poulenc, Camille Saint-Saëns,Edward Elgar, and Edvard Grieg. This week we turn our attention to Giacomo Puccini, master composer for the opera. Explore our recommendations for the best recordings of La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Il trittico, Turandot and many more.

Sir Simon Rattle to step down as Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor in 2018 Sir Simon Rattle has announced that he will end his tenure as the Berlin Philharmonic’s chief conductor when his contract expires in the summer of 2018. read more...

BBC Radio 3 to broadcast every opera by Wagner, Verdi and Britten in 2013 BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast every opera by Wagner, Verdi and Britten throughout 2013 - 140 hours of music - in celebration of the composers’ anniversary years. read more...

Obituary: John Carol Case, bass-baritone The English bass-baritone, singing teacher and carol composer John Carol Case, OBE, has died, aged 89. He first came to notice in 1948 when he sang in Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia under the composer´s direction. read more...

Royal Opera House outlines new works up to 2020 A commitment to new opera: that's the message being expressed by the Royal Opera House, London. Outlining plans for commissions up to and including 2020, music director Antonio Pappano and director of opera Kasper Holten talked about 15 new works to be presented either on the main Covent Garden stage or in the Linbury Studio Theatre. read more...

A nation of singers Latvia is a country steeped in a wonderful choral tradition, says composer Gabriel Jackson in a new blog. read more...

Baroque music in period houses BBC Radio 3 and the National Trust will present six concerts of Baroque works and a live drama in National Trust properties during March. See pictures of the period houses in Gramophone’s new gallery. read more...

Access every issue of Gramophone through the digital archive app Don’t forget that you can now access every single issue ofGramophone since its first edition in 1923 through the digital archive app - that’s over 1000 issues! Subscribers to the digital edition automatically have access to the entire Gramophone archive included as part of their annual £39.99 fee. Print magazine subscribers are able to get the digital archive and edition for a discounted price of £25 (in addition to their current magazine subscription fee). read more...