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Verdi albums from Joseph Calleja and Sonya Yoncheva
2nd Feb 2018
The Maltese tenor and Bulgarian soprano triumph in their explorations of the composer's more dramatic roles.
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Franco Fagioli on Handel
1st Feb 2018
Katherine talks to the Argentinian countertenor about his new album of arias from operas including Serse, Rinaldo and Ariodante - the latter previously unrecorded by this voice-type.
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2018
31st Jan 2018
Katherine's personal highlights of the month include music by Gounod, Martinů and Copland, plus a star turn from Joyce DiDonato gamely sending herself up in Jake Heggie's new opera about an American diva resurrecting a bel canto rarity.
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Angela Gheorghiu on Tosca and Eternamente
23rd Jan 2018
Katherine talks to the Romanian soprano about returning to one of her signature-roles at Covent Garden this week, and her new album of verismo arias on Warner Classics.
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Inspiration
22nd Jan 2018
The award-winning teenage cellist talks to Katherine about his wide-ranging debut album on Decca, and his remarkable career to date.
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Shostakovich from Paavo Järvi’s Estonian Festival Orchestra
19th Jan 2018
Katherine is impressed by the bracing, visceral playing of the Estonian conductor's summer festival band, making their recording debut with two works by Shostakovich.
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Clare Howick on British violin music
18th Jan 2018
The violinist talks to Katherine about her world premiere recordings of concertos by Gordon Jacob, Kenneth Leighton and Paul Patterson.
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Jake Heggie on It's A Wonderful Life
16th Jan 2018
The American composer talks to Katherine about his opera based on Frank Capra's classic 1946 film, released on Pentatone at the end of last year.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th January 2018
12th Jan 2018
Today's highlights include breathtaking Handel from Franco Fagioli, peerless Bach from Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and a new Jake Heggie opera starring Joyce DiDonato in the title-role.
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Edward Gardner conducts the incidental music from Grieg's Peer Gynt
5th Jan 2018
Katherine embarks on a thrilling journey to the Hall of the Mountain-King in the company of Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic.
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Bartók from Pablo Heras-Casado and other forthcoming releases
3rd Jan 2018
Including new recordings from Garrick Ohlsson, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anna Bonitatibus, and the Elias Quartet.
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Presto Editor's Choices - December 2017
31st Dec 2017
Music by Marais, Pixis and Obrecht are among this month's favourites, plus an outstanding Debussy recital from the young South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho.
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Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe from Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti
22nd Dec 2017
Katherine welcomes back Naïve's Vivaldi Edition, which returns today with an effervescent account of the "Red Priest"'s pastoral pasticcio from the 1730s.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd December 2017
22nd Dec 2017
The continuation of the Elias Quartet’s Beethoven, an album of choral works composed by one of Britain’s best-loved baritones, and a celebration of Venice’s eclectic musical history from Jordi Savall are among this fortnight’s new releases.
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Susan Orlando on Naïve's Vivaldi Edition
19th Dec 2017
Katherine talks to one of the driving forces behind the project, which resumes this month with Dorilla in Tempe.
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Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2017
15th Dec 2017
Ten recent releases which struck us as something special, from artists including Wilhelm Kempff, Christian Tetzlaff and Steven Osborne.
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Graham Fitkin on the string quartet
13th Dec 2017
The British composer talks to Katherine about his complete works in this genre, which have recently been recorded by the Sacconi Quartet on Signum.
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Christmas Releases 2017
6th Dec 2017
Ten of our favourite new festive recordings, from early music collections to traditional carols.
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Má Vlast from Jiří Bělohlávek and other January highlights
5th Dec 2017
Including recordings from Maurizio Pollini, Stephen Hough, Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the late Jiří Bělohlávek.
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Christmas music from Le Concert Spirituel, the Sistine Chapel, and Merton College Oxford
1st Dec 2017
Katherine enjoys a contemplative programme of Advent and Christmas motets from the Vatican choir (plus a very special guest!) and an incisive Messiah with a difference from Hervé Niquet.
