SPECIAL AWARDS ISSUE The year’s best recordings, chosen by our expert critics

THE WORLD’S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

Est 1923 . AWARDS 2015

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We celebrate the year’s ­inest releases, including: Maria João Pires’s poetic Beethoven Claudio Abbado’s profound Bruckner Piotr Anderszewski’s mesmerising Bach ...and we reveal the Recording of the Year

PLUS Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending – which recording is the best?

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