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New Release Round-Up - 12th June 2026
12th Jun 2026
Bach from Mahan Esfahani and the Britten Sinfonia, Rachmaninoff from Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, a 70th birthday celebration with Sally Beamish, and a return to CPE Bach from Arte Dei Suonatori and Marcin Świątkiewicz.
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Taylor Scott Davis on his Requiem and more...
10th Jun 2026
The composer talks about his new album of works performed by VOCES8 and friends.
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Presto Presents... Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch
27th May 2026
In the latest episode of Presto Presents, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform and discuss music from their new album A Poet's Love, inspired by Schumann's Dichterliebe.
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Nico Muhly's choral works from Magdalen College, Oxford
22nd May 2026
The trebles and adults of Magdalen College present a year's worth of anthems, motets and other sacred music written (mostly) for them by Nico Muhly.
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Early Music Round-Up - Spring 2026
21st May 2026
Soulfully penitent Couperin from Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet, Bach from Le Banquet Céleste with cellist Julien Barre, solo vocal favourites by Purcell, Handel and others from Jakub Józef Orliński and Michał Biel, Alon Sariel's third album of 'plucked Bach', and more.
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Anna Urpina on 'Le Chant des Muses'
18th May 2026
The violinist talks about her new album comprising works from highly successful, but subsequently neglected, female composers of the Baroque era.
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Madeleine Mitchell on String Quartets by Charles Wood
18th May 2026
The violinist shares some of her thoughts on a new album of chamber music by Charles Wood, released recently on SOMM to mark the centenary of the composer's death.
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Nico Muhly and Peter Phillips on No Resting Place
11th May 2026
The composer, and the conductor of The Tallis Scholars, talk about their latest collaboration on an album of Nico's choral works.
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Nico Muhly: No Resting Place
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins reflect on 'Reflection'
6th May 2026
The violinist and composer-pianist discuss their album of music by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, the late Oliver Knussen and Watkins himself, released in February on Signum Classics.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th April 2026
24th Apr 2026
Late nineteenth century viola works from Timothy Ridout, a French opera premiere from György Vashegyi and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Britten from Julie Roset, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Lawrence Foster, and Vaughan Williams from Roderick Williams and friends.
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Joseph Nolan on the organ works of Alkan
23rd Apr 2026
The organist talks about the first instalment of his new project - recording the complete organ works of the French Romantic keyboard sorcerer Charles-Valentin Alkan, known as much for his epic-scale piano works as for his organ compositions.
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The Complete Alkan Organ Works: Volume 1
Joseph Nolan (organ)
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Arvo Pärt from Eva Ollikainen and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
17th Apr 2026
Four very different symphonic works show Pärt's imaginative and harmonic languages changing over time - from the modernist and avant-garde early in his career through to more pensive and spiritual works.
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Bach's St John Passion from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion
20th Mar 2026
Raphaël Pichon follows up his benchmark recording of the St Matthew Passion with a much-anticipated account of the St John - with the raw immediacy of the narrative tempered by moments of tenderness.
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JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Nimrod Borenstein on his concertos and Shakespeare Songs
18th Mar 2026
The composer talks about his new album on SOMM, featuring concertos for mandolin and for oboe plus his Shakespeare Sonnets for soprano and orchestra.
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Early Music Round-Up - February 2026
26th Feb 2026
Virtuosic compositions for Renaissance trombone, an Orpheus-themed recital from Rolando Villazón and Christina Pluhar, English song from Purcell to Handel from Grace Davidson and Julian Perkins, a treasure-trove of sacred works woven around the L'homme armé motif, and more.
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Symphonic works by Elsa Barraine
20th Feb 2026
Two symphonies and a pair of pictorial tone-poems show the long-neglected twentieth-century French composer at her finest, with a musical language drawing on both watercolour Impressionism and bold modernism.
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Helmuth Rilling (1933-2026)
16th Feb 2026
The German conductor and academic Helmuth Rilling, acclaimed in particular for his recordings of Bach (including the first complete survey of his complete output on CD), has died aged 92.
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Renaud Capuçon celebrates his fiftieth birthday with Bach
23rd Jan 2026
The violinist marks a milestone with a classy album of Bach's sonatas and partitas, swapping awestruck veneration for simple personal enjoyment.
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J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
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John Wallace (1949-2026)
15th Jan 2026
The Scottish trumpeter and composer John Wallace, known not just for his recordings but also for his work on reviving and rediscovering historical brass performance practices, has died at the age of 76.
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Mendelssohn and Enescu Octets from the Ébène and Belcea Quartets
9th Jan 2026
String octets from Mendelssohn and Enescu - both in their teens at the time of composition - show the two composers’ genius already in full flower. The Ébène and Belcea quartets give it their all and the results are spectacular.
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Enescu & Mendelssohn: Octets
Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
