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The Comet Is Coming, 'Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam'
7th Oct 2022
One of London's most unique instrumental trios return for their third full-length record, with deeper explorations in electronic music, psychedelia and jazz.
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Bruno de Sá on Roma Travestita
6th Oct 2022
The Brazilian soprano discusses his debut album on Erato (exploring the period of operatic history when women were forbidden from performing on the Roman stage) and the process of 'finding his own path' as a high-voiced male singer...
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 6th October 2022
6th Oct 2022
The latest jazz releases for the first week of October, including new albums from Mark Guiliana and Bobby Watson, as well as Blue Note Tone Poet reissues from Grant Green and Kenny Burrell.
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Edition Peters: Piano Anthology Examination Pieces
6th Oct 2022
New from Edition Peters, the Piano Anthology Examination Pieces for 2023 and 2024 support students preparing for ABRSM's practical or performance exams. Comprising four volumes at grade 5-8 level, each book includes a selection from lists A, B, and C, as well as pieces suitable for the own-choice section of the performance exams.
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Domingo Hindoyan on life in Liverpool
5th Oct 2022
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's new Chief Conductor talks about his debut recording of Debussy, Roussel and Dukas on Onyx, his relationship with his mentor Daniel Barenboim, and how being part of the original El Sistema in Venezuela has informed his approach to music education and community work.
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2022
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the overall winning recording, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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The Jazz Chart - September 2022
4th Oct 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, including new entries from J.D. Allen, Samara Joy and Miles Davis.
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The Presto Chart - September 2022
3rd Oct 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Hollywood Soundstage from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London (released at the beginning of the month on Chandos) in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2022
1st Oct 2022
An irresistible Coleridge-Taylor collection from Chineke!, an exciting all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under their dynamic new Music Director, and an almost unbearably poignant Schwanengesang from Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt.
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Blue Note Records, 'Blue Note Re:imagined II'
30th Sep 2022
The second volume of Blue Note Re:imagined again sees the best up-and-coming jazz, soul and R&B artists from the UK let loose into the Blue Note vaults, with brilliant results.
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Krystian Zimerman performs piano music by Szymanowski
30th Sep 2022
The Polish pianist offers a selection of pieces by his compatriot, in performances that are often highly idiosyncratic yet always thoughtful, intelligent, and full of staggering technical and expressive mastery.
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Krystian Zimerman (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 30th September 2022
30th Sep 2022
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, an all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and a celebration of neglected French composer Charlotte Sohy from new label La Boîte à Pépites.
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Valentyn Sylvestrov
29th Sep 2022
As the Ukrainian composer turns 85, David listens to some of the greatest recordings of his music - by turns introverted and reflective, rapturously spiritual, and politically impassioned.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 29th September 2022
29th Sep 2022
The latest jazz releases this week include more jazz classics re-worked on Blue Note Re:imagined II, the first album of The Bad Plus' new era, and a live set from Snarky Puppy.
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New Deutsche Grammophon & Decca titles added to our Presto CD range
28th Sep 2022
Baroque music from Reinhard Goebel and recitals from Kathleen Battle and Bryn Terfel feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Song
28th Sep 2022
Award-winning and internationally acclaimed cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has just released his latest sheet music collection in collaboration with Faber Music, presenting a selection of music from his third solo album. We asked the cellist some questions about Song and his inspirations behind the project. Find out more.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2022
27th Sep 2022
September heavyweights include a refreshed Vaughan Williams Collector's Edition on Warner Classics, Robert Levin's set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas performed on the composer's own fortepiano, and the complete sessions for Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on Sony.
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Vaughan Williams Edition 2022, Malcolm Stewart, Piers Lane (piano), Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin, Norma Burrowes (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Marie Hayward, Susan Longfield, Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Shirley Minty (contralto), Meriel Dickinson, Gloria Jennings, Ian Partridge (tenor), Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen, Richard Angas, John Noble, John Carol Case (bass-baritone), Christopher Keyte, Hugh Bean (violin), Central Band of the Royal Air Force (military band), Wing Commander Eric Banks, Larry Adler, Philip Catelinet, Stephen Roberts, Britten Quartet, Herbert Downes, Osian Ellis (harp), Gerald Moore (piano), Peter Katin (piano), Christopher Hyde-Smith, Helen Watts (contralto), Orchestra Nova of London, Jacques Orchestra, John Westbrook, John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), John Barrow, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Thomas Allen (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Russell Burgess, Robert Joyce, Music Group of London, Janet Craxton (oboe), Jennifer Partridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison, Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Meredith Davies, Jean Temperley, Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, London Philharmonic Choir, Ambrosian Singers, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Bach Choir, Choir of New College Oxford, Westminster Abbey Choir, Guildford Cathedral Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, York Minster Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult, Constantin Silvestri, Sir Charles Groves, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli, Richard Hickox, Sir David Willcocks, Edward Higginbottom, Stephen Cleobury, Barry Rose, Norman Del Mar, Sir Simon Rattle, Martin Neary
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New Music Book Publications - 26th September 2022
26th Sep 2022
An exploration of the impact which The Beatles and James Bond had on British culture and constructions of masculinity, the story of the 1957 musical The Music Man and its creator Meredith Willson, an analysis of more than a century's worth of recorded performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni, and a brief history of time-keeping devices in music.
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Bjarte Eike on The Playhouse Sessions
26th Sep 2022
Violinist and music director Bjarte Eike talks about his new album and follow-up to the highly successful Alehouse Sessions, drawing further inspiration from the lively nightlife of Restoration England.
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Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)
26th Sep 2022
The legendary jazz saxophonist, whose career spanned over six decades and was instrumental in the development of the 'spiritual jazz' sound, has died aged 81.
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