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Introducing Presto Jazz
3rd Jan 2019
Chris introduces the latest addition to the Presto website - a new department dedicated to Jazz recordings.
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The Presto Chart - 2018
2nd Jan 2019
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Rachel Podger's pared-down but vibrant Four Seasons with Brecon Baroque leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2018
1st Jan 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with The Choir of King's College Cambridge's celebration of the centenary of their Nine Lessons and Carols service storming ahead in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 28th December 2018
28th Dec 2018
Orphée et Euridice from La Scala with Juan Diego Flórez and Christiane Karg, an eclectic song recital from Anne Sofie von Otter, and late Brahms from Garrick Ohlsson.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2018
26th Dec 2018
Our Boxing Day boxes include portraits of Claudio Abbado, Maria Yudina and Willi Boskovsky, plus the complete piano music of Sergei Bortkiewicz.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2018
21st Dec 2018
Bach, Schubert, Finzi, Liszt and Saint-Saëns feature among the editorial team's individual picks of the year.
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Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2018
21st Dec 2018
Ten of our best-selling titles from autumn and winter, from artists including Jean Rondeau, the Chiaroscuro Quartet, and Christian & Tanja Tetzlaff with Lars Vogt.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2018
17th Dec 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, with three of Handel's Italian cantatas from two outstanding young French singers and Emmanuelle Haïm directing Le Concert d'Astrée out in front as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th December 2018
14th Dec 2018
Includes recordings from Jordi Savall, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, and Stephen Costello.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2018 Choices
11th Dec 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Víkingur Ólafsson, James Ehnes, Elsa Dreisig, and Mahan Esfahani.
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Grammy Nominations 2019
10th Dec 2018
The shortlist for next year's Awards was revealed on Friday - read on for full details of the recordings which will be battling it out in the eight classical categories.
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Recordings of the Year 2018 - Our Top 10
7th Dec 2018
The winners revealed - ten fantastic recordings which really stood out from the crowd for us over the past twelve months, plus the results of our new special category awards...
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John Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita) BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
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New Release Round-Up - 7th December 2018
7th Dec 2018
Naive’s Vivaldi Edition continues in style with Il Giustino, the Quatuor Ébène’s former viola-player conducts some exhilarating Mozart, and Gottfried von der Goltz supersizes Corelli.
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Vivaldi: Il Giustino
Delphine Galou (Giustino), Emöke Barath (Arianna), Silke Gäng (Anastasio), Ana Maria Labin (Leocasta), Ariana Vendittelli (Amantio), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Vitaliano), Alessandro Giangrande (Andronico, Polidarte) Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
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Christmas Releases 2018
5th Dec 2018
Festive albums from artists including Masaaki Suzuki, Rolando Villazón, Daniel Behle, The Sixteen, Apollo’s Fire, and the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
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50 new titles added on Sony, Columbia and Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
2nd Dec 2018
An eclectic mix of titles, including Nielsen from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wagner from Bruno Walter, and Bach from Hille Perl.
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The Presto Chart - November 2018
1st Dec 2018
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna's Mahler Six in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 30th November 2018
30th Nov 2018
Verdi from Fabio Biondi (yes, really!), Berlioz from Michael Tilson Thomas and the late Sir Colin Davis, and Debussy centenary tributes from pianists Javier Perianes and Roger Muraro.
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Recordings of the Year - Special Category Nominees
29th Nov 2018
In advance of the final verdicts next Friday, we reveal the shortlists for our six new special awards - including Rising Star, Conductor of the Year, and two separate categories of world premiere recordings.
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Recordings of the Year 2018 - Our Top 100
22nd Nov 2018
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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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita) BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2018
22nd Nov 2018
Jaap van Zweden’s Ring Cycle with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Colin Davis’s complete recordings of Berlioz with the London Symphony Orchestra, and collections celebrating Carlos Kleiber, Henryk Szeryng, Riccardo Chailly and Claudio Abbado.
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde - Die Walküre), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde/Brünnhilde - Siegfried), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde - Götterdämmerung), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried - Götterdämmerung), Simon O’Neill (Siegfried - Siegfried); Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
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