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Christmas Gift Ideas - Music Education & History Books
7th Dec 2020
For our final Christmas gift guide for 2020, we offer some suggestions for children's educational books, alongside reference guides and companions to the history of music.
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New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
7th Dec 2020
A wide variety of music, from Haydn to Sciarrino, is available on our latest batch of Presto CDs.
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Gunnar Idenstam on Metal Angel
6th Dec 2020
The Swedish concert organist talks about his new album, blending the French Romantic sound-world with influences from Scandinavian symphonic metal.
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Mark Simpson's Geysir and Mozart's Gran Partita for Winds
4th Dec 2020
Mark Simpson leads an ensemble in radiant performances of two works for wind instruments: his own composition, Geysir, alongside Mozart's Gran Partita.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th December 2020
4th Dec 2020
World premiere recordings of orchestral works by Elisabetta Brusa and the original Roman version of Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran, the recording debut of the young American pianist Paul Ji, and a boxed set celebrating Adrian Boult’s relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Lewis Wright - The Colour of Intention
4th Dec 2020
British vibraphonist Lewis Wright's The Colour of Intention is a trio session that impresses for both its lyrical flow and the strength of the compositions.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 4th December 2020
4th Dec 2020
The latest jazz new releases, incuding a 6-LP boxset from Avishai Cohen, and an epic Keith Tippett orchestral commission.
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Episode 9: The English Choral Tradition with David Smith
3rd Dec 2020
Presto's own David Smith, a lay clerk at St. Philip's Cathedral Birmingham and member of Ex Cathedra, charts the turbulent development of the English choral tradition.
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Christmas Releases 2020
3rd Dec 2020
Our round-up of this year’s crop of festive recordings – traditional favourites, lesser-known gems of early music, contemporary carols and more intimate solo transcriptions.
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Christmas Gift Ideas - Books on Popular, Jazz, & World Artists
3rd Dec 2020
Our second gift guide offers suggestions of books published this year on jazz & world music artists, famous names from musical theatre and songwriting, and rock & pop icons.
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The Presto Chart - November 2020
2nd Dec 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Daniil Trifonov's celebration of Russia's 'Silver Age' on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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David Temple on seasonal Britten
1st Dec 2020
The conductor talks about his new recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Saint Nicolas with Crouch End Festival Chorus, Mark Le Brocq and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
1st Dec 2020
Wayne Shorter's seminal album was the third in a prolific six years of recordings for Blue Note, and while Speak No Evil still retains the accessibility of early hard bop, it also showcases the saxophonist's unique and unorthodox compositional style.
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Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter
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Presto Editor's Choices - November 2020
30th Nov 2020
Ian Bostridge's miller-lad toughens up on the tenor's third recording of Die schöne Müllerin, whilst Philippe Jaroussky and TrioW both unearth some fascinating buried treasure and Paavo Järvi begins a promising new Tchaikovsky cycle.
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Christmas Gift Ideas - Books on Classical Composers & Performers
30th Nov 2020
A selection of Christmas gift suggestions, focusing on recent composer biographies and books about and written by Classical performers.
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A Christmas double-bill from Mexico and Ireland
27th Nov 2020
Two glorious albums from Siglo de Oro and the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin bring us onto the final straight to Christmas – focusing on Central American and Gaelic festive celebrations.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th November 2020
27th Nov 2020
Prokofiev and Myaskovsky from Vasily Petrenko, Puccini's Il tabarro from Marek Janowski, Martinů from Frank Peter Zimmermann, and a celebration of 'Queen of Baroque' Cecilia Bartoli.
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Give Back Friday
27th Nov 2020
For the next four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to two charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: the Chineke! Foundation and the Benedetti Foundation.
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Give Back Friday
27th Nov 2020
For the next four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to two charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: the Chineke! Foundation and the Benedetti Foundation.
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Give Back Friday
27th Nov 2020
For the next four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to two charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: the Chineke! Foundation and the Benedetti Foundation.
