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Isabelle Faust at the Gramophone Awards
9th Nov 2026
Before accepting the Artist of the Year prize at last month's ceremony, the German violinist sat down backstage with Katherine to discuss her winning album of Ligeti - and what's changed since she was crowned Young Artist of the Year back in 1997.
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Puccini's final version of La rondine from Opera Rara
6th Nov 2026
Ermonela Jaho is on tear-jerking form as the complex heroine Magda in this darker, 1921 iteration of Puccini's rom-com turned sour, outstandingly conducted by Carlo Rizzi and idiomatically reconstructed from archive materials by the Opera Rara team.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th November 2026
6th Nov 2026
Stravinsky from Simon Rattle in Munich, Bach from Víkingur Ólafsson and friends, Adès, Kurtág and Tippett from the Hallé, and Shostakovich from the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th November 2026
6th Nov 2026
This week's roundup highlights Legendary John Coltrane archive finds alongside dynamic live sets from the Darius Brubeck Quartet and free-jazz pioneers Matthew Shipp and William Parker. Discover Noah Fürbringer and Petter Eldh's genre-bending EP, Zohar & Adam's inventive debut, guitar mastery from Lofsky and Price, a classic Hank Mobley reissue, and seminal British jazz from Henry Lowther and Michael Garrick.
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Keith Jarrett - Roma
6th Nov 2026
Recorded live at Rome's Santa Cecilia Hall on July 12th, Roma is the fifth and final instalment from Keith Jarrett’s 2016 European tour. This solo performance features ten improvised movements and a two-song encore, highlighting Jarrett’s masterful ability to captivate audiences single-handedly across a broad spectrum of musical styles.
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Herbert Blomstedt (1927-2026)
5th Nov 2026
The Swedish conductor has died peacefully, surrounded by his family at his home in Gothenburg at the age of 99, after a long and extraordinary career from which he never fully retired.
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja on 'Patkop and Say'
4th Nov 2026
The violinist talks about her new album with Fazıl Say, on which the two artists double up as both performers and composers.
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Patkop & Say
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Fazıl Say (piano)
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Author Focus: Melanie Spanswick - Women Composers – A Graded Anthology For Piano
4th Nov 2026
In part seven of our Author Focus series, Melanie Spanswick discusses "Women Composers - A Graded Anthology for Piano", a three-volume series featuring a broad selection of repertoire from the seventeenth century to the present day.
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Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
4th Nov 2026
Acclaimed composer and arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson discusses his album Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane. He reflects on his early memories of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane’s deep spiritual influence, writing original music, and the meaning of the Sanskrit title Ananta. The interview also highlights key collaborations with musicians Immanuel Wilkins, Jeff Parker, and Brandee Younger.
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Ananta: Spirit Of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin, viola, recordingarranger, percussion), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Brandee Younger (harp), Javier Santiago (piano), Karl McComas-Reichl (bass), Justin Brown (drumkit), Andres Renteria (percussion), Immanuel Wilkins (altosaxophone), Flying Lotus (synthesizer, sounddesign), David Virelles (piano), Morgan Guerin (bassclarinet), Liza Wallace (harp), Ryoma Takenaga (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drumkit), Aja Monet, Peter Jacobson (cello), Shabaka, Shabaka Hutchings (altoflute, bassclarinet), Azar Lawrence (sopranosaxophone), Devin Daniels (altosaxophone), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Jeff Parker (guitar)
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Nicolas Namoradze on Grosse Fuge
3rd Nov 2026
Ahead of his Wigmore Hall recital on 12th November, pianist Nicolas Namoradze spoke to us about his latest album Grosse Fuge (released by Ondine on 2nd October), his approach to Beethoven and his own creative activities.
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The Presto Chart - October 2026
2nd Nov 2026
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with 'assured and poised' Mozart from the Takács Quartet and Timothy Ridout on Hyperion in the top spot.
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Presto Team Choices - October 2026
31st Oct 2026
French Britten from Cyrille Dubois, Mahler from Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide, Beethoven for Four from Emanuel Ax & friends, and Chopin from Pavel Kolesnikov.
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Britten, Walton and more from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson
30th Oct 2026
Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (with soloists Laurence Kilsby and Christopher Parkes) gets a new library-choice recording, whilst pathos and precision abound in Walton's Sonata for String Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th October 2026
30th Oct 2026
Mahler's Symphony No. 2 from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, the final version of Puccini's La rondine from Opera Rara, Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie from Vasily Petrenko and the RPO, and contemporary harpsichord concertos from Mahan Esfahani.
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Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Ananta: Spirit Of Coltrane
30th Oct 2026
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane is the latest Impulse! release from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. The album acts as a tribute to John Coltrane, an evergreen influence for Atwood-Ferguson, and features an illustrious line-up of side-musicians.
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Ananta: Spirit Of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin, viola, recordingarranger, percussion), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Brandee Younger (harp), Javier Santiago (piano), Karl McComas-Reichl (bass), Justin Brown (drumkit), Andres Renteria (percussion), Immanuel Wilkins (altosaxophone), Flying Lotus (synthesizer, sounddesign), David Virelles (piano), Morgan Guerin (bassclarinet), Liza Wallace (harp), Ryoma Takenaga (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drumkit), Aja Monet, Peter Jacobson (cello), Shabaka, Shabaka Hutchings (altoflute, bassclarinet), Azar Lawrence (sopranosaxophone), Devin Daniels (altosaxophone), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Jeff Parker (guitar)
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New Release Round-Up - 30th October 2026
30th Oct 2026
This weeks new releases include Jim Snidero's Coltrane inspired House of Trane, and the latest album from drummer and bandleader Brandon Sanders. We also have new music from DownBeat Critics Poll winner Anna Webber as well as Bass legend Christian McBride. Michael Wollny re-imagines a Schubert song cycle on ACT and we have a new release from Italian pianist Salvatore Bonafede alongside Eddie Gomez and Billy Hart
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New Pop & Rock Digital Sheet Music - October
30th Oct 2026
Welcome to our monthly round-up of new pop and rock sheet music titles. Browse some of our favourite songs here.
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Ermonela Jaho on La rondine
29th Oct 2026
In advance of Opera Rara's new recording of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's storia di salon (plus excerpts from the 1919 revision of the score), the Albanian soprano discusses why the composer kept revisiting the 'beautiful soul' of its heroine Magda de Civry.
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Jakub Hrůša on Smetana's Libuše
28th Oct 2026
To mark a new recording of his compatriot's patriotic opera, released last month on Supraphon and starring Kateřina Kněžíková in the title-role, the Czech conductor discusses how the piece fits into Smetana’s overall operatic output, why it isn’t performed more abroad, and how its nationalistic spirit fed into the composer’s best-known orchestral work, Má vlast.
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Smetana: Libuše
Kateřina Kněžíková (Libuše), Adam Plachetka (Přemysl), Alžběta Poláčková (Krasava), Martin Bárta (Chrudoš), Jan Šťáva (Lutobor), Richard Samek (Šťáhlav), Jiří Brückler (Radovan), Václava Krejčí Housková (Radmila), Czech Philharmonic, Jakub Hrůša
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Stephen Kovacevich (1940-2026)
28th Oct 2026
The American pianist Stephen Kovacevich, celebrated especially for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert and Bartók, has died at the age of 86.
