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Vivaldi from Cecilia Bartoli and Ensemble Matheus
23rd Nov 2018
Nearly twenty years after her landmark album devoted to the operas of the 'Red Priest', the Italian mezzo is as dazzling as ever in arias from works including Orlando furioso, Il Giustino and Ottone in Villa.
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Late Debussy sonatas from Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov and friends
16th Nov 2018
Harmonia Mundi's ten-album series commemorating the centenary of Debussy's death continues with the Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, and Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp.
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Jaap van Zweden on the Hong Kong Philharmonic's Ring Cycle
13th Nov 2018
As the final instalment of the cycle on Naxos is released, the conductor talks to Katherine about the project's origins, and the challenges and rewards of tackling Wagner's epic with an orchestra whose primary home is the concert-hall rather than the opera-house.
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Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute) Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
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John Wilson conducts Copland's Third Symphony and Connotations
9th Nov 2018
Chandos's superb survey of the American composer's orchestral music with the BBC Philharmonic continues to raise the roof as the Fanfare for the Common Man returns transformed.
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Clemens Trautmann on DG120
6th Nov 2018
Katherine talks to the President of Deutsche Grammophon about his career and the label's 120th anniversary celebrations, including this evening's gala concert in Berlin, which is being streamed live at 8pm CET.
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Thibaut Garcia on Bach Inspirations
1st Nov 2018
The French guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album of Bach-influenced works by Villa-Lobos, Tansman, Barrios Mangoré and Gounod - as well as transcriptions of the composer's own Chaconne and two of his best-known chorales.
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Presto Editor's Choices - October 2018
31st Oct 2018
An all-Strauss programme from Arabella Steinbacher, world premiere recordings of three Parry orchestral works, and an assured and mesmerising debut on Warner Classics from Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński.
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Requiem: The Pity of War from Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano
26th Oct 2018
The tenor and pianist join forces for a programme of Butterworth, Rudi Stephan, Kurt Weill and Mahler to commemorate the centenary of Armistice Day next month.
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Norma from the Metropolitan Opera and other forthcoming highlights
24th Oct 2018
Sondra Radvanovsky and Joyce DiDonato star as Bellini's 'Druid duo', plus Mozart from Seong Jin-Cho, Debussy from François-Xavier Roth, and a rare outing for the original version of Verdi's Macbeth - directed from the violin by Fabio Biondi.
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Jiří Bělohlávek conducts Martinů's What Men Live By
19th Oct 2018
The world premiere recording of a 1952 'pastoral opera' based on Tolstoy, captured three years before the Czech conductor's death in 2017.
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Czech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
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Bryn Terfel on Dreams and Songs
18th Oct 2018
Katherine speaks to the great Welsh bass-baritone about his new album, which includes duets with Dame Emma Thompson, Joseph Calleja and Rob Brydon as well as the world premiere recording of Karl Jenkins's The Shepherd Poet of Passchendaele.
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Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
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A moving recital from Igor Levit with music by Bach, Liszt and Wagner
5th Oct 2018
Igor Levit explores music of transfiguration and transcendence in his Life Album, an eclectic recital of Bach-via-Busoni and Wagner-via-Liszt.
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Igor Levit (piano)
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Stuart Skelton on Wagner
4th Oct 2018
The Australian tenor (currently singing Siegmund in the Royal Opera House's Ring Cycle) talks to Katherine about his career as a Wagnerian and his debut solo recording Shining Knight, recently released on ABC Classics.
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Sean Shibe on softLOUD
1st Oct 2018
Katherine talks to the award-winning young guitarist about his confrontational new album, which mixes seventeenth-century Scottish lute music with works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe and David Lang.
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2018
30th Sep 2018
A Winterreise with a twist, a voluptuous tour of fin de siècle Vienna with Barbara Hannigan, and a fascinating collection of orchestral music by the British twentieth-century composer Ruth Gipps.
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Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide
26th Sep 2018
Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
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Sir Thomas Allen on September Songs
24th Sep 2018
The veteran baritone talks to Katherine about his autumnal album of classics from The Great American Songbook, out now on Champs Hill Records and featuring soprano Lucy Crowe.
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Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
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Scriabin's First and Fifth Symphonies from Vasily Petrenko
21st Sep 2018
The Russian conductor and the Oslo Philharmonic are joined by pianist Kirill Gerstein for the final instalment of Scriabin's complete symphonies on LAWO.
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Magdalena Kožená on French song
20th Sep 2018
The Czech mezzo talks to Katherine about recording Duparc with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for their new album Aimer et mourir, out tomorrow on Linn Records.
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Sir Simon Rattle on Wonderful Town
12th Sep 2018
Watch our exclusive video-interview with the London Symphony Orchestra's Music Director about their live recording of Bernstein's raucous paean to The City That Never Sleeps, out now on the orchestra's own label.
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Danielle de Niese (Eileen), Alysha Umphress (Ruth), Nathan Gunn (Bob Baker), Duncan Rock (Wreck), David Butt Philip (Lonigan), Ashley Riches (Guide/First Editor/Frank) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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