SPECIAL AWARDS ISSUE The year’s best recordings, chosen by our expert critics gramophone.co.uk

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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa wins our Lifetime Achievement Award

We name the best releases of the past year, including:

Joyce DiDonato’s musical mission for peace Masaaki Suzuki’s serene,

life-a irming Mozart

Murray Perahia’s intelligent, joyful Bach … and we reveal our Recording of the Year!

PLUS Strauss’s Alpine Symphony:

which version to own? Victor de Sabata: recalling the maestro, 50 years on