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Presto Editor's Choices - November 2021
1st Dec 2021
A terrific debut album of baroque operatic heroines from Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique, a mesmerising 'Venetian Mirror' from Le Consort, and a madcap musical journey down Lewis Carroll's rabbit-hole courtesy of Irish composer Gerald Barry.
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Pelléas et Mélisande from Jonathan Nott and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
26th Nov 2021
The world premiere recording of the British conductor's own tone-poem on Debussy's opera is coupled with Schoenberg's suite from 1905, to illuminating effect.
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Pelléas et Mélisande
Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
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New Release Round-Up - 26th November 2021
26th Nov 2021
Die Zauberflöte from Covent Garden with Roderick Williams and Sabine Devieilhe, Bach's Goldberg Variations from David Fray, Florence Price's Symphony No. 3 from Vienna, and Max Reger's piano concerto from Joseph Moog.
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Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased
19th Nov 2021
The Roman mezzo is in electrifying form in a programme of operatic and concert-arias by Haydn, Mysliveček, Mozart and Beethoven with the Kammerorchester Basel, recorded back in 2013.
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Recordings of the Year 2021 - Our Top 100
18th Nov 2021
The first meeting of the Presto Awards committee is over, and it's time to reveal the 100 recordings which have most impressed our editorial team this year...
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New Release Round-Up - 12th November 2021
12th Nov 2021
The continuation of Benjamin Alard's multi-instrumental survey of Bach's keyboard works; new music from James MacMillan; speculative Mozartian sonatas from Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Anna Szałucka and Timothy Jones; and an enchanting selection of miniatures from Renaud Capuçon and Guillaume Bellom.
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Joan Carlyle (1931-2021)
9th Nov 2021
The British soprano, who sang the role of Jenifer on the Philips recording of Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage and was a much-loved house singer at Covent Garden for two decades, has died aged 90.
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Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
Joan Carlyle (Jenifer), Elizabeth Harwood (Bella), Helen Watts (Sosostris), Elizabeth Bainbridge (She-Ancient), Stuart Burrows (Jack), Alberto Remedios (Mark), Raimund Herincx (King Fisher), Stafford Dean (He-Ancient), David Whelan (Half-Tipsy Man), Andrew Daniels (Dancing Man) Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
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MUSE from Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason
5th Nov 2021
The siblings' contrasting musical personalities complement one another quite beautifully in sonatas by Barber and Rachmaninov, plus a well-chosen selection of songs by both composers.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th November 2021
5th Nov 2021
Bach and Handel from Sabine Devieilhe, Josquin from Graindelavoix, Brahms from Alexandre Kantorow, and Rameau's Achante et Céphise from Alexis Kossenko.
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Michael Spyres on Baritenor
2nd Nov 2021
The American singer talks to Katherine about moving between tenor and baritone repertoire on his new album, and why he believes that the fach system often 'does our voices and artistry an injustice'.
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Presto Editor's Choices - October 2021
1st Nov 2021
French mezzos Marianne Crebassa and Lea Desandre excel on two very different recital-discs, Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn offer an unusual perspective on Mussorgsky, and The Hermes Experiment continue to surprise and delight with their second album.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th October 2021
29th Oct 2021
Bartók from Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Phillharmonic, Chopin from Stephen Hough, Beethoven from the Chiaroscuro Quartet, and Handel arias with instrumental obbligatos from La Nuova Musica.
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Della Jones on Opera Rara
27th Oct 2021
The veteran Welsh mezzo talks to Katherine about her career and her relationship with the label, which began in the late 1970s with a recording of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi.
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Marina Rebeka and Franco Vassallo on Il Pirata
25th Oct 2021
The Latvian soprano and Italian baritone discuss their roles as Imogene and Ernesto in Bellini's early opera, recorded last summer in the composer's native Catania and released on Rebeka's own label Prima Classic last month.
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Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)
22nd Oct 2021
The great Dutch conductor, widely loved for his kindness and humility as well as his revelatory interpretations of Wagner, Bruckner and Mahler, has died at home in London aged 92.
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Gösta Winbergh (tenor), Nancy Gustafson (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), Thomas Allen (baritone), John Tomlinson (bass), Alasdair Elliott (tenor), Richard Lloyd Morgan (bass), Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone), Grant Dickson (tenor), Robin Leggate (tenor), John Dobson (tenor), Paul Crook (tenor), Simon Wilding (baritone), Geoffrey Moses (bass), Michael Druiett (bass) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Bernard Haitink
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Philippe Jaroussky & Thibaut Garcia: À sa guitare
22nd Oct 2021
The French countertenor and guitarist join forces for an eclectic, beguiling programme ranging from Dowland to Barbara, whilst Jaroussky's younger label-mate Jakub Józef Orliński dazzles in sacred baroque works with Il Pomo d'Oro.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd October 2021
22nd Oct 2021
Gubaidulina world premieres from Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester, Mozart's Mitridate from Marc Minkowski, a musical journey through sixteenth-century Venice with Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston, and a Franco-Spanish recital from mezzo Marianne Crebassa.
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Edita Gruberová (1946-2021)
19th Oct 2021
The Slovak-born coloratura soprano, who excelled as Strauss's Zerbinetta and Mozart's Queen of the Night, has died aged 74.
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Emily D'Angelo - Enargeia
8th Oct 2021
The young Canadian-Italian mezzo makes a bold debut on Deutsche Grammophon with music by Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Missy Mazzoli.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th October 2021
8th Oct 2021
Music by the Bach family from Daniil Trifonov, the Tchaikovsky symphonies from Paavo Järvi in Zurich, a 'journey between different cultures' from Philippe Jaroussky and Thibaut Garcia, and a nature-themed song recital from Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
