Being a musician is not the same as being a performer: there are many competent amateur players who lack even an iota of musicianship, while attentive listeners who aren’t endowed with the technique or the coordination necessary to achieve an adequate performance often feel the music more acutely than those who actually play it. Do crime novelists need to be criminals, or theatre critics playwrights? I pose the question because so often lay listeners assume that performers and critics hear music in the same way, and very often they don’t. "Do you play yourself?” There can’t be a music critic in the land who hasn’t at one time or another been asked that very question. Below, contributing editor and reviewer Rob Cowan muses on why artists and critics might choose differently. Here we reveal the 250 greatest classical recordings, as selected for Gramophone by more than 30 leading musicians.
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