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Handel's Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and other autumn highlights
7th Sep 2022
Lisette Oropesa heads a starry cast on Il Pomo d'Oro's upcoming recording of Handel's dramatic oratorio about religious persecution in ancient Rome, plus Dvořák from Leif Ove Andsnes, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and Ruth Gipps from the BBC Philharmonic.
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Lars Vogt (1970-2022)
6th Sep 2022
The German pianist and conductor, a superb chamber musician who was especially noted for his interpretations of Austro-German Romantic repertoire, has died of cancer aged 51.
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Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope
2nd Sep 2022
Featuring music by composers including Léhar, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla, the Egyptian soprano's beguiling, wide-ranging invitation to the dance proves impossible to resist.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd September 2022
2nd Sep 2022
Bach from Mahan Esfahani, Brahms from Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz, John Adams from Paavo Järvi, and Haydn from the Takács Quartet.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2022
31st Aug 2022
Mahler from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, a beguiling 'emporium of curiosities' from Sean Shibe, and Wolf Lieder in full orchestral technicolour from Benjamin Appl and the Jenaer Philharmonie.
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Randall Scotting on Senesino
31st Aug 2022
The American countertenor discusses his new album The Crown, exploring the star castrato's legacy beyond the Handel roles for which he is best known today...
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New Release Round-Up - 26th August 2022
26th Aug 2022
Brahms symphonies from Ádám Fischer, Johann Jakob Walther from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Sean Shibe's Lost & Found, and early English keyboard music from Giulia Nuti.
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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
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Giulia Nuti on The Fall of the Leaf
24th Aug 2022
The Italian harpsichordist talks about her new album celebrating the Golden Age of English keyboard music (out this Friday on Arcana), and the remarkable history of the 'Rucellai Virginal' which she plays on the recording...
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The Fall of the Leaf
Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
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New Release Round-Up - 19th August 2022
19th Aug 2022
Britten from Andrew Staples and Daniel Harding, late Schubert from René Jacobs and B'rock Orchestra, Secret Love Letters from Lisa Batiashvili, and John Cage from the Latvian Radio Choir.
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Michael Waldron on Colourise
17th Aug 2022
The director of London Choral Sinfonia discusses their new album, featuring the world premiere recordings of Lennox Berkeley's Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons and Vaughan Williams's arrangement of the Five Mystical Songs for voice, choir, piano and strings .
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Igor Levit's Tristan and other forthcoming highlights
16th Aug 2022
Other stand-out releases for the autumn include French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, Szymanowski from Krystian Zimerman, Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, and a Kurtág-inspired musical autobiography from Víkingur Ólafsson.
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American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's debut recording
12th Aug 2022
Featuring arias by Cilea, Massenet, Verdi, Ponchielli and Mascagni, the Chile-born tenor's first album for Deutsche Grammophon reveals a powerful dark-hued voice that's allied to real interpretative subtlety.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th August 2022
12th Aug 2022
Martinů from Roger Norrington, Britten and Bridge played on a viola previously owned by both composers, piano duets by four British composers, and a final helping of Mozart from the Armida Quartett.
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Francesco Corti on Bach
10th Aug 2022
The harpsichordist and conductor talks about the pleasures and challenges of reconstructing a harpsichord concerto from a single page of music - and how Bach's resourcefulness resonates with his own 'very Italian common-sense practical side!'.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2022
9th Aug 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'deliciously honest' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton and Joseph Middleton
5th Aug 2022
All three artists are wonderfully attuned to the wit and warmth of Wolf's set of 46 delectable miniatures, with Middleton's characterful postludes proving in a joy in themselves...
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New Release Round-Up - 5th August 2022
5th Aug 2022
Bach concertos from Masato Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 from Christian Lindberg, the Emperor Quartet's complete Britten recordings, and Vaughan Williams for brass band.
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Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers - Introducing Glyndebourne Encore
1st Aug 2022
This summer's landmark production of Smyth's neglected opera (centring on a Cornish community which survives by luring ships to a rocky doom) is now available on the Sussex festival's new subscription streaming-service.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2022
30th Jul 2022
World premiere recordings of works by Jörg Widmann, Lennox Berkeley and John Frederick Lampe, plus an outstanding Respighi recital from Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
