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New Release Round-Up - 29th July 2022
29th Jul 2022
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's Houses of the Wind.
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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 2022
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd July 2022
22nd Jul 2022
Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.
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Nico Muhly & Nicholas Phan on Stranger
21st Jul 2022
In the wake of its world premiere recording on Avie, the composer and tenor discuss the extraordinary song-cycle which Muhly composed for Phan in 2019, and reflect on the themes of immigration and identity which lie at the heart of the work.
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John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
20th Jul 2022
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.
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Berg, Webern and Schoenberg from the Heath Quartet
15th Jul 2022
The UK-based string quartet bring luminous clarity and beauty to three transitional works by the Second Viennese School, with soprano Carolyn Sampson joining them for Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th July 2022
15th Jul 2022
Chopin from Louis Lortie, Beethoven from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vladimir Jurowski, and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley from The Brook Street Band and John Andrews.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th July 2022
8th Jul 2022
This year's Sommernachtskonzert from Vienna, late Schubert from the Gewandhausorchester and Herbert Blomstedt, a third helping of Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro, and a collection of twentieth-century and contemporary choral works from Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022
1st Jul 2022
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2022
30th Jun 2022
A tour de force of a recital from contemporary music diva and composer Héloïse Werner (plus a rich and varied roster of instrumental soloists), a revelatory Dichterliebe from Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov, and a superb collection of the young Ravel's ambitious submissions for the Prix de Rome...
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Florian Sempey on Rossini
28th Jun 2022
The French baritone discusses his new album Figaro? Sì! (out now on Alpha Classics), the stage-director who transformed his perspective on Rossini's wheeler-dealing barber, and how the composer's joie de vivre is often underscored by melancholy...
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Freddie De Tommaso - Il Tenore
24th Jun 2022
The young British-Italian tenor is on barnstorming form in a programme of scenes and arias from Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly and Carmen, with equally impressive guest appearances from Lise Davidsen, Natalya Romaniw and Aigul Akhmetshina.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th June 2022
24th Jun 2022
Massenet orchestral songs with soloists including Véronique Gens and Étienne Dupuis, Vivaldi from Les Arts Florissants, music by three Latvian composers from Kremerata Baltica, and Bach from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Alon Sariel.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2022
21st Jun 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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Wranitzky Symphonies from Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
17th Jun 2022
Bernhard Forck leads Akamus in a spirited showcase of the Moravian-born composer’s gifts as an orchestrator, featuring the overture to Oberon, the ‘Grande Symphonie caractéristique pour la Paix avec la République francaise’, and the ‘Tempest’ Symphony.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th June 2022
17th Jun 2022
A musical journey 'in the footsteps of Rumi', Chopin & Rachmaninoff from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, Mozart & Voříšek from Herbert Blomstedt, and Strauss from Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.
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Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
16th Jun 2022
The Chilean-American tenor's album of French and Italian opera arias will be released in August, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Mahler from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
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Bart Van Reyn on CPE Bach's Die Auferstehung
14th Jun 2022
The Belgian conductor discusses his new recording of Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, a passion-oratorio on Christ's Resurrection and Ascension which was conducted by Mozart in the presence of Beethoven and Haydn (and influenced the latter's The Creation).
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New Release Round-Up - 10th June 2022
10th Jun 2022
Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give world premieres of music by their compatriots, plus David Lang's the writings, Grieg from Peter Donohoe, and John Ireland from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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Franz Welser-Möst on Richard Strauss
7th Jun 2022
The Austrian conductor talks to Katherine about his lifelong affection for the composer's music, his new recording of Macbeth, Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel with the Cleveland Orchestra, and why their home at Severance Hall is 'the absolute perfect setting' for some of Strauss's most magical moments...
