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GRAMOPHONE.CO.UK | NEWS | AWARDS | HALL OF FAME | FORUM | BLOGS Gramophone Composer Guides: the best Gabriel Fauré 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, Edvard Grieg and Giacomo Puccini. This week we turn our attention to Gabriel Fauré, organist, teacher and one of the foremost French composers of his generation. Explore our recommendations for the best recordings of the Requiem, piano quartets, piano quintets, Ballade, Op 19, cello works and piano works.  Sir Antonio Pappano receives ISM Distinguished Musician Award Royal Opera House music director Sir Antonio Pappano has been presented with the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ Distinguished Musician Award for 2012. read more... London's Southbank Centre launches 2013-14 season Maintaining business as usual in troubling economic times - that was the key message at the Southbank Centre’s launch of its 2013-14 Classical Music Season. read more... Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester performs Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible with new narration The Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester (DSO), one of seven major orchestras on Berlin’s dense music scene, is living up to its standards of adventurous programming with freshly installed music director Tugan Sokhiev. read more... From the Archive: Benjamin Britten's first Gramophone review Read Alec Robertson’s review of Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge performed by the Boyd Neel String Orchestra from 1938. read more... The demise of HMV The UK’s one remaining high-street music chain faces administration, writes Philip Clark. How did it all go wrong and what can be done to save it? read more...