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Recordings of the Year 2023 - Special Category Nominees
30th Nov 2023
In advance of the final verdicts next Thursday evening, we reveal the shortlists for our six special awards - including Technical Achievement, Debut Solo Album, and two separate categories of world premiere recordings.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2023
29th Nov 2023
American countertenor Russell Oberlin's complete recordings on American Decca, the complete Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini, and the late Lars Vogt's collected recordings on Warner Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2023 Choices
27th Nov 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'a timely showcase of an exceptionally talented composer' - namely a quartet of orchestral works by Dobrinka Tabakova, released on The Hallé's own label in October.
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Classical Recordings of the Year - Finalists 2023
23rd Nov 2023
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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Grammy Nominations 2024
21st Nov 2023
The shortlist for next year's Awards was revealed last week - read on for full details of the contenders in the nine classical categories.
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New Streaming Service Features!
20th Nov 2023
Read on to find out about our new streaming service features, including curated playlists, pre-release content and a recently played albums section!
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2023
13th Nov 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'polished and beautifully-presented' recording of Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde on Opera Rara, conducted by Paul Daniel and starring Anne-Catherine Gillet, Virginie Verrez and Josh Lovell.
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The Presto Chart - October 2023
1st Nov 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Víkingur Ólafsson's 'serious, sincere and authentic' account of Bach's Goldberg Variations leading by a country mile (and racing to the top of the overall 2023 chart to date...).
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2023
31st Oct 2023
This month's heavyweights include Jessye Norman's complete studio recitals on Philips, Deutsche Grammophon & Decca, Victoria de los Ángeles's collected Warner recordings, and Bruckner cycles from Christian Thielemann in Vienna & Andris Nelsons in Leipzig.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2023 Choices
25th Oct 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'dynamic and vivid' postscript to Fabio Luisi's Gramophone Award-winning cycle of the Nielsen symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon...
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International Opera Awards 2023 - The Shortlisted Recordings
17th Oct 2023
Javier Camarena, Cyrille Dubois and Lisette Oropesa are among the artists in the running for the solo recital category, whilst rarities by Mercadante, Dessau and Franck go head-to-head in the complete recording stakes...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2023
10th Oct 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, headed by a 'lived-in and confident' account of the Monteverdi Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon on Harmonia Mundi.
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2023
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the Recording of the Year, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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The Presto Chart - September 2023
2nd Oct 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with an 'impeccably authentic' account of Monteverdi's Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2023
27th Sep 2023
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2023
18th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by the world premiere recording of Parry's Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' from the London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus and William Vann on Chandos.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices
12th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place, 'investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour' in their Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff album...
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - Finalists Revealed
8th Sep 2023
The final contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed this morning, with Rachel Podger, Mahan Esfahani, Marc-André Hamelin and Quatuor Ebène among those in the running…
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The Presto Chart - August 2023
4th Sep 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2023
22nd Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with 'an absolute belter' of a Tchaikovsky Five from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place as Recording of the Month...
