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Steuart Bedford (1939-2021)
16th Feb 2021
The British conductor and pianist, who worked closely with Benjamin Britten and premiered two of his late major works, has died aged 81.
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Britten: Death in Venice
Peter Pears (Aschenbach), John Shirley-Quirk (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), James Bowman (Voice of Apollo) English Opera Group Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
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Violins of Hope
12th Feb 2021
Instruments previously owned by Holocaust survivors and restored by the Weinstein family sing with a special power in Schubert, Mendelssohn, and a new work by Jake Heggie which tells their stories.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th February 2021
12th Feb 2021
Italian baroque music from La Serenissima, new works by Raymond Yiu, Bright Sheng and Martin Suckling, and a rare outing for Luigi Rossi's extravagant 1647 opera L'Orfeo.
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Christian Immler on Hans Gál
10th Feb 2021
The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.
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Simone Menezes on Ensemble K
8th Feb 2021
The Brazilian conductor talks to Katherine about Accents, her debut recording with her hand-picked ensemble, which features music by Copland, Borodin, Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Lacaze.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th February 2021
5th Feb 2021
Weinberg from Gidon Kremer, Schnittke from Daniel Hope, Janáček from Lars Vogt, and Gesualdo from Les Arts Florissants.
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2021
2nd Feb 2021
Spellbinding story-telling from Georgian pianist Nicolas Namoradze, an exciting Eccles world premiere from the Academy of Ancient Music, and hugely appealing chamber music by Swedish Romantic composer Helena Munktell.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th January 2020
29th Jan 2021
Rachmaninov from Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Winterreise from Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside, Bach from Piotr Anderszewski, and reflections on mortality from Stephen Hough.
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Behzod Abduraimov plays Debussy, Chopin and Mussorgsky
22nd Jan 2021
The Uzbek pianist is beguiling in Children's Corner and the 24 Preludes Op. 28, and offers the virtual tour of one's dreams in Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd January 2021
22nd Jan 2021
Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico, Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques, Prokofiev from Nicholas Angelich, and Romberg from Chouchane Siranossian.
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François-Xavier Roth on Beethoven & Gossec
21st Jan 2021
The French conductor talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Gossec's Symphonie à 17 parties.
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Osian Ellis (1928-2021)
18th Jan 2021
The Welsh harpist, whose artistry inspired composers including Benjamin Britten, has died aged 92.
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Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara
15th Jan 2021
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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Ivan Ilić on L’art de varier
13th Jan 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about the third volume of his acclaimed Antoine Reicha series on Chandos (released last Friday), which features just one work - an extraordinary set of 57 variations composed in 1802–03.
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Ironwood on Louise Farrenc
12th Jan 2021
The Australian period-instrument ensemble's cellist Daniel Yeadon and fortepianist Neal Peres Da Costa talk to Katherine about their recording of the French composer-pianist's Piano Quintet No. 1, released on ABC Classics last autumn.
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Hélène Grimaud on The Messenger
7th Jan 2021
The French pianist talks to Katherine about her recording of works by Mozart and Valentin Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg, released at the end of last year on Deutsche Grammophon.
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2021 Choices
5th Jan 2021
Katherine introduces this month's Choices, with Daniil Trifonov's Silver Age striking gold as Recording of the Month...
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Verklärte Nacht from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
1st Jan 2021
Schoenberg's masterpiece is framed by works for voice and orchestra (also on the theme of 'transfigured night') by Franz Lehár, Oskar Fried, and Erich Korngold.
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Neal Davies on Vaughan Williams
31st Dec 2020
The Welsh bass-baritone talks to Katherine about recording the Songs of Travel with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, in orchestrations by the composer and his assistant Roy Douglas.
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Ivry Gitlis (1922-2020)
28th Dec 2020
The Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, who founded a pioneering festival in the South of France and collaborated with musicians ranging from Jascha Heifetz to The Rolling Stones, has died aged 98.
