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The Presto Chart - May 2022
1st Jun 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Brahms quintets from the Pavel Haas Quartet and guests Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl on Supraphon in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2022
24th May 2022
May heavyweights include Wilhelm Kempff's collected Decca and Polydor recordings, the Richard Hickox/Andrew Davis cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's complete Philips Recordings, and a fortieth-birthday anthology from Capriccio.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2022
18th May 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'lively, supple' account of Handel's early oratorio La Resurrezione on Linn from Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2022 Choices
10th May 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's 'electrifying and revelatory' Sibelius cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca.
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The Presto Chart - April 2022
2nd May 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Raphaël Pichon's recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Pygmalion on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2022
30th Apr 2022
This month's heavyweights include extensive anthologies celebrating Dimitri Mitropoulos and Kurt Masur, 150th birthday-editions of Vaughan Williams and Scriabin, and a set of recordings from Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022: The Winners!
28th Apr 2022
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2022
26th Apr 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'breathtakingly extravagant display of intellect and imagination' from Mitsuko Uchida in Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
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The Presto Chart - March 2022
4th Apr 2022
Our 25 most popular titles across all formats for March, with Klaus Mäkelä's Sibelius cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place - and recordings featured in our Humanitarian Fundraiser for Ukraine accounting for almost a third of the best-sellers.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2022
23rd Mar 2022
March heavyweights include two Hans Knappertsbusch anthologies on Decca Eloquence, Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy's complete recordings for Columbia Graphophone. a celebration of the Ballets Russes, and a collection of solo piano works by female composers from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Hans Knappertsbusch: The Opera Edition
Soloists, Jan Preece, Sena Jurinac (soprano), Deszö Ernster, Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (mezzo-soprano), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Set Svanholm (tenor), Arnold van Mill (bass), Paul Schöffler (bass-baritone), Hilde Gueden (soprano), Günther Treptow (tenor), Karl Dönch, Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), George London (bass-baritone), Hermann Uhde (baritone), Martha Mödl (soprano), Jess Thomas (tenor), Gustav Neidlinger (bass-baritone), Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano), Maria Reining, Hans Knappertsbusch
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2022
21st Mar 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a St. Matthew Passion from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon which offers 'glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations'.
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2022 Choices
17th Mar 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Elisabeth Leonskaja's complete Mozart piano sonatas on Warner...
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Music listening survey
15th Mar 2022
Tell us about your music listening habits, and your thoughts on music streaming, to be in with a chance of winning £50 to spend at Presto Music.
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Humanitarian Fundraiser for Ukraine
10th Mar 2022
We are launching a fundraising campaign to raise money for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. We have looked at the available repertoire of music by Ukrainian composers, and have made a selection of twenty publications, including piano music, vocal and choral works, and chamber pieces. All profits from the sales of these items will be donated to the Appeal.
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Humanitarian Fundraiser for Ukraine
10th Mar 2022
We are launching a fundraising campaign to raise money for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Six labels have generously donated stock of fourteen albums featuring a wide range of Ukrainian repertoire, enabling us to donate every penny raised from them to the Appeal.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2022
9th Mar 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte's 'wild and beautiful' accounts of concertos by Vivaldi, Leclair and Locatelli with Les Ombres.
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The Presto Chart - February 2022
1st Mar 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and the Dmitri Ensemble's Ice Land in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2022
22nd Feb 2022
February heavyweights include French organist Olivier Latry's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, The Choir of King’s College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury's complete Argo recordings, and anthologies celebrating the legacies of Zoltán Kocsis and Blandine Verlet.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2022 Choices
17th Feb 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Jennifer Kloetzel and Robert Koenig's set of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano on Avie...
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The Presto Chart - January 2022
1st Feb 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with Marc-André Hamelin's enchanting survey of keyboard works by CPE Bach on Hyperion in first place...
