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Classicalite's Five Best... Artist Pub Shots of 2014

Creating a great publicity photo is a difficult art. And at Classicalite, we see a lot of them, both good and bad. Here is a gallery of the top five publicity shots to have crossed our desks in 2014.
Classicalite's Five Best: Beethoven Trivia

If you thought you knew Beethoven, we found 5 truths to Ludwig van Beethoven's character that you either may not have known or overlooked into your processions with Vienna's most brilliant composer.
Classicalite's Five Best: Carlo Bergonzi Recordings

Classicalite contributing editor James Inverne states his case, with videos, for the five best Carlo Bergonzi recordings.
Classicalite's Five Best: Made-Up Musicals

'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy's purchase of the rights to 'Funny Girl,' now in a fictional revival on TV's 'Glee,' made us think about some of the great fictional musicals of the past.
Classicalite's Five Best: Biggest YouTube Music Hitters

Ah, YouTube. Repository of some of the finest classical rarities just waiting to be chanced upon by some digital adventurer. But YouTube has its classical blockbusters as well -- videos that have attracted a critical mass of page views. They're not always the most obvious. Sometimes indeed the performers aren't even known. But here are five of the most-viewed classical videos we could find...
Classicalite's Five Best: Rock Stars and Their Musical Mentors

The trend of recent decades of rock stars to turn to classical music isn't so very surprising. No, especially not when you consider some very direct influences between the mainstream classical world and the rockers. Here, then, are Classicalite's Five Best rock stars and their classical mentors.
Classicalite's Five Best: Musical Moments in Harold Ramis Films

Harold Ramis passed away this week; we pay a classical music tribute to the great comedy filmmaker. And so a sad farewell to the inspired, hitherto undersung comedian, writer and director Harold Ramis.
Classicalite's Five Best: Classical Musical Families...It's Not Just Roberto and Aleksandra!

The news that Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak have had a little tenorino--and congrats to them--prompts us to look at a few other musical family ties. Presenting, then, Classicalite's Five Best...Classical Music Families.
Classicalite's Five Best: Books on Music

How to pluck just five books from libraries and libraries of writing about music? Just close your eyes, and decide which seem obvious. These seem obvious to me...
Classicalite's Five Worst: Pub Shots

Here at Classicalite, we get deluged by publicity photos every day. Some are wonderful, most are average. And a small percentage are truly bizarre, in bad taste or downright silly...
Classicalite's Five Best: Halloween Recordings

What qualifies as classical music's scariest works and recordings? OK, there are two ways to write this story. Take one: a chilling trawl through a clutch of the spookiest classical works for Halloween.
Classicalite's Five Best: Richard Wagner Recordings

Wagner's epic operas are rather long for you to plough through all the available recordings looking for favorites, so don't worry, we've done it for you.