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The Presto Chart - January 2023
1st Feb 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with András Schiff's all-Bach recital Clavichord on ECM in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2023 Choices
30th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with a 'stunningly virtuosic' Stravinsky programme from the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos in pride of place...
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2023
25th Jan 2023
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: Shortlist
24th Jan 2023
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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International Classical Music Awards 2023
19th Jan 2023
The ICMA results were revealed yesterday, with winners including Ermonela Jaho, Alessandro Marangoni, Mahan Esfahani, and Asmik Grigorian.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
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The Presto Chart - 2022
5th Jan 2023
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Klaus Mäkelä's complete Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2022
4th Jan 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Diana Damrau's sparkling 'My Christmas' on Erato in first place...
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2022 Goodbyes
3rd Jan 2023
A short video tribute remembering some of the musicians who died during 2022.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2022 Choices
26th Dec 2022
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with an 'optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful' Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro on Erato in pride of place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2022
20th Dec 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a display of 'fearless daredevilry' from pianist (and high-flying international lawyer) Paul Wee in transcriptions by Liszt and Alkan on BIS...
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New Releases from Winter 2022
16th Dec 2022
Christmas with Tenebrae, the first instalment of Angela Hewitt's Mozart sonatas cycle, Andrew Gourlay's Parsifal Suite, and a second helping of Ravel from Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra.
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The Presto Chart - November 2022
3rd Dec 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih's exploration of a 'golden decade' of cello music in first place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2022
28th Nov 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by 'an exquisite album of unparalleled beauty' from The Sixteen and Fretwork...
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Recordings of the Year 2022 - Our Top 100
25th Nov 2022
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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Give Back Friday 2022
24th Nov 2022
For four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to three local charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: Armonico Consort, Leamington Music Festival and Orchestra of the Swan
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Give Back Friday 2022
24th Nov 2022
For four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to three local charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: Armonico Consort, Leamington Music Festival and Orchestra of the Swan
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Give Back Friday 2022
24th Nov 2022
For four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to three local charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: Armonico Consort, Leamington Music Festival and Orchestra of the Swan
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Gifts for...Pianists and piano-lovers
10th Nov 2022
From 2022's best new recordings and box sets, to informative books and deluxe sheet music, we select our top gifts for pianists and pianophiles alike.
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The Presto Chart - October 2022
1st Nov 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with Víkingur Ólafsson's 'fan-letter' to Hungarian composer and pianist György Kurtág on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
