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BBC Music Magazine - November 2022 Choices
25th Oct 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Robert Levin's 'treasurable' set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas on the composer's own fortepiano in pride of place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2022
19th Oct 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by Marc Minkowski's 'formidable re-evaluation' of Meyerbeer's influential but under-recorded supernatural opera Robert le Diable on Bru Zane, with John Osborn in the title-role.
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Celebrating Vaughan Williams at 150
12th Oct 2022
Highlights from this year's plethora of new releases marking the composer's 150th birthday include world premiere recordings of Pan's Anniversary and a number of folk-song settings, a thrilling On Wenlock Edge from Scottish tenor Nicky Spence, and symphonies from Sir Mark Elder and Martyn Brabbins.
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2022
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the overall winning recording, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2022
27th Sep 2022
September heavyweights include a refreshed Vaughan Williams Collector's Edition on Warner Classics, Robert Levin's set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas performed on the composer's own fortepiano, and the complete sessions for Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on Sony.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2022
20th Sep 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's 'fabulous debut disc' of arias and duets by Zandonai, Mascagni, Verdi and more on Deutsche Grammophon...
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2022 Choices
13th Sep 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust's 'indispensable' recording of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place...
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - the top three in each category
9th Sep 2022
The final contenders in each of the twelve categories were revealed this morning, with Isabelle Faust, Raphaël Pichon, Leif Ove Andsnes and Alina Ibragimova among those in the running…
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The Presto Chart - August 2022
1st Sep 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Alison Balsom's Quiet City (released last Friday on Warner Classics) in first place...
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Opus Klassik Awards 2022
30th Aug 2022
Revealed this morning in advance of next month's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Igor Levit, Lea Desandre, Vladimir Jurowski and Kian Soltani.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2022
23rd Aug 2022
August heavyweights include a set of Pablo Casals's late chamber music recordings for Philips, the complete Schubert piano sonatas from Elisabeth Leonskaja, and an anthology of French baroque music from the Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2022 Choices
22nd Aug 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with concertos and orchestral works by Wieniawski, Dobrzyński & Kurpiński from the Orchestra of the 18th Century in pride of place...
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The Presto Chart - July 2022
2nd Aug 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Ronald Brautigam's recording of piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms on BIS in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2022
27th Jul 2022
July heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete solo recordings on Decca, Reinhard Goebel's complete recordings on Archiv Produktion, a celebration of Eugene Ormandy's five-year stint in Minneapolis, and the collected works of John Adams on Nonesuch.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022
12th Jul 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet
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The Presto Chart - June 2022
4th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2022 Choices
23rd Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the 'greatest recording' of Handel's 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione from Harry Bicket and The English Concert on Linn.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022
15th Jun 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2022 Choices
8th Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'mesmerising' debut recording of Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland from the Castalian String Quartet on Delphian.
