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New Release Round-Up - 22nd January 2021
22nd Jan 2021
Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico, Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques, Prokofiev from Nicholas Angelich, and Romberg from Chouchane Siranossian.
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Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra - The Democracy! Suite
22nd Jan 2021
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and trumpeter finds inspiration in a tumultuous period for the United States, with a suite that spans many eras of jazz.
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François-Xavier Roth on Beethoven & Gossec
21st Jan 2021
The French conductor talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Gossec's Symphonie à 17 parties.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 21st January 2021
21st Jan 2021
Highlights this week include Will Glaser's Climbing in Circles, Arthur Hnatek Trio's Static, a mash-up of jazz and consort music, and Soweto-based Urab Village's Udondolo
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International Classical Music Awards 2021
20th Jan 2021
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Beatrice Rana, Ermonela Jaho, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Chouchane Siranossian.
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Nicolas Hodges on Birtwistle and Beethoven
19th Jan 2021
Reflecting on his recent release on Wergo, the pianist talks about Bagatelles, improvisation and his own relationship with Harrison Birtwistle.
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New Generation Gig Bags from Tom & Will
19th Jan 2021
For the past fifteen years, Tom & Will's colourful gig bags have been providing reliable protection for a broad range of instruments from orchestral, concert and brass band as well as folk. We take a look at some bags from their New Generation series.
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Osian Ellis (1928-2021)
18th Jan 2021
The Welsh harpist, whose artistry inspired composers including Benjamin Britten, has died aged 92.
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Herbie Mann - Push Push
18th Jan 2021
Herbie Mann's embracing of funk and rock music wasn't met with the kindest words, but the funk-jazz crossover is just as deserving of a classic status as Miles Davis' similar experiments in the 1970's.
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Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara
15th Jan 2021
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2021
15th Jan 2021
Plaisirs illuminés from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Behzod Abduraimov's debut recital on Alpha, Telemann from Holland Baroque, and Nathalie Stutzmann in baroque opera arias with Orfeo 55.
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Matchbox Bluesmaster Series - Volumes 1 & 2
15th Jan 2021
Matchbox commences an important archival project with the Bluesmaster series, with Volumes 1 & 2 focussing on country and ragtime blues, and great harp players from the period 1926-1934.
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Papa Harvey Hull (vocals), Long "Cleve" Reed (vocals), Long Cleve Reed (vocals), Richard "Rabbit" Brown, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Bo Weavil Jackson, William Moore, Stephen Tarter, Harry Gay, Bayless Rose, Willie Walker, Sam Brooks, Peg Leg Howell, Eddie Anthony, Jim Hill (vocals), Alger "Texas" Alexander (vocals), Lonnie Johnson (guitar)
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Vinyl Round-Up - January 2021
14th Jan 2021
Highlights amongst recent and forthcoming vinyl releases include Itzhak Perlman's mid-1980s recordings of solo Bach, Anna Clyne's Mythologies, and Mariss Jansons's final concert from Carnegie Hall.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th January 2021
14th Jan 2021
New vinyl from Keith Jarrett, a compilation of mid-2000s nu jazz from Brotherly, and an unearthed live recording from Dexter Gordon's time in Copenhagen.
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Ivan Ilić on L’art de varier
13th Jan 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about the third volume of his acclaimed Antoine Reicha series on Chandos (released last Friday), which features just one work - an extraordinary set of 57 variations composed in 1802–03.
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Ironwood on Louise Farrenc
12th Jan 2021
The Australian period-instrument ensemble's cellist Daniel Yeadon and fortepianist Neal Peres Da Costa talk to Katherine about their recording of the French composer-pianist's Piano Quintet No. 1, released on ABC Classics last autumn.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2021
11th Jan 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Frank Peter Zimmermann's 'benchmark' recordings of the Martinů violin concertos with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hruša on BIS.
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Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
11th Jan 2021
An early entry in Alice Coltrane's bandleading discography, Ptah, the El Daoud, sees the renowned harpist explore the spiritual sounds from her collaboration with her late husband. However, Alice remains a voice of her own.
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New Music Book Publications - 11th January 2021
11th Jan 2021
Biographies of Mozart and Chinese composer Chen Yi; essays on the organ works of Bach; a handbook illustrating the essential nature of singing through the millennia; philosophical discourse in relation to music in the Roman Empire; an analysis of the solfeggio tradition in the eighteenth century; the politics of opera from Monteverdi to Mozart; a collection of interviews with prominent oboists; and a critique of music and musicians in modern Turkey.
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Elmas Piano Concertos from Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
8th Jan 2021
David enjoys the latest instalment in Hyperion's inexhaustible series, featuring the earliest-known piano concertos by an Armenian composer.
