{"id":48110,"date":"2024-10-09T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d17e23fd-e163-40a3-8e1b-beb50afb9d18"},"modified":"2024-10-09T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:07:30","slug":"these-are-the-50-greatest-recordings-of-all-time-how-many-are-in-your-collection","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/these-are-the-50-greatest-recordings-of-all-time-how-many-are-in-your-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 50 greatest recordings of all time. How many are in your collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 09 October 2024 at 10:42 AM<\/p>

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Each month at BBC Music Magazine<\/em> we receive hundreds of recordings, and hundreds of thousands have been made since the advent of recorded sound. But which are the very greatest recordings: those legendary moments of musical lightning-in-a-bottle that no collection should be without? <\/p>

We asked the BBC Music Magazine <\/em>critics to vote on the top 50 recordings of all time. And here are the results. Enjoy! <\/p>

Contents<\/h2>

Best classical recordings of all time: 50 to 41<\/a>Best recordings: 40 to 31<\/a>Greatest recordings: 30 to 21<\/a>Best recordings of all time: 20 to 11<\/a>Greatest recordings: 10 to 2<\/a>And the greatest recording of all time is..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

The best classical recordings of all time: 50 to 41<\/h2>

50. Bart\u00f3k: Concerto for Orchestra<\/h3>

Chicago Symphony Orchestra\/Fritz Reiner (1955) RCA<\/em><\/p>

Fritz Reiner persuaded Serge Koussevitsky to commission Bart\u00f3k<\/strong><\/a> in 1943 to write his orchestral masterpiece, and it was Reiner who went on to make the ultimate recording in 1955 with the Chicago Symphony. Expertly juggling the music\u2019s wry humour, despair and sense of shattered dreams, this version is a crisply recorded wonder of an analogue age.<\/p>

Bart\u00f3k: Concerto for Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra\/Fritz Reiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>