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Boosey & Hawkes: Easy String Music Series
28th Jan 2020
Boosey & Hawkes are a global classical music publisher, with an extensive catalogue of printed music for both professional and student musicians. Some of their most popular series have recently undergone an update, the latest being the Early String Music Series. Find out more about the series here.
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Grammy Winners 2020
27th Jan 2020
Chris introduces the winning classical albums from this year's ceremony, which took place last night in Los Angeles.
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New Music Book Publications - 27th January 2020
27th Jan 2020
Discussions of the music of Mahler, Telemann, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Ernst von Dohnányi; the importance of fantasy to nineteenth-century French music; books on polyphony in medieval Paris and music during times of plague; an introduction to country music; and an examination of the popularity of musical theatre across America.
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Franz Mazura (1924-2020)
25th Jan 2020
The Austrian bass-baritone, who was especially renowned for his Wagner roles and made his final appearance in Die Meistersinger only last April, has died aged 95.
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Teresa Stratas (Lulu), Yvonne Minton (Gräfin Geschwitz), Franz Mazura (Dr Schön), Kenneth Riegel (Alwa), Toni Blankenheim (Schigolch/Der Medizinalrat/Ein Polizeikommissär), Robert Tear (Der Maler/Der Neger) Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez
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Liszt’s Dante Symphony plus a world-premiere recording from Kirill Karabits
24th Jan 2020
Kirill Karabits conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in orchestral works by Liszt, including the world-premiere recording of the Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2020
24th Jan 2020
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton explore Schubert, Haydn and Wolf’s ‘Divine Muses’, Swedish soprano Malin Byström makes her solo recording debut with Berg, Duparc and Rangström, and Kairos present three large-scale orchestral works by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth.
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Peter Beets & the Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra
24th Jan 2020
An impressive set from The Netherlands, with pianist Peter Beets and The Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra romping through dazzling arrangements of classical music and standards.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2020
23rd Jan 2020
January collections include Claudio Abbado’s complete recordings with the Wiener Philharmoniker for Deutsche Grammophon, a celebration of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s early years, and the first complete recording of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s monumental Sequentia cyclica for solo piano.
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Recordings of the Year 2019 - Photo Gallery
22nd Jan 2020
A selection of our 2019 Recordings of the Year winners with their awards!
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International Classical Music Awards 2020
21st Jan 2020
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Adám Fischer, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès, and the young Turkish pianist Can Çakmur.
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Xavier Sabata on Winterreise
20th Jan 2020
The Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about taking 'a trip into the darkness of the mind' on his recording of Schubert's great song-cycle, released before Christmas on Berlin Classics.
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Barry Tuckwell (1931-2020)
17th Jan 2020
The Australian horn player and conductor has died at the age of 88.
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Charpentier from Vox Luminis, A Nocte Temporis and Reinoud Van Mechelen
17th Jan 2020
The two Belgian early music ensembles pool their resources for two very different works depicting Orpheus's descent to the underworld, with Van Mechelen on outstanding form as the intrepid hero in each case.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2020
17th Jan 2020
CPE Bach from oboist Xenia Löffler and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand‘ from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas from Fazil Say, and another Liszt rarity from Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2020: Shortlist
16th Jan 2020
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Benjamin Grosvenor's Chopin and other forthcoming highlights
15th Jan 2020
The young British pianist records the two concertos with Elim Chan and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, plus two Adès world premiere recordings and new releases from Adam Laloum, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Isabelle Faust, and Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2020
15th Jan 2020
With the post-Christmas lull clearing, Matt settles back and enjoys some of the jazz new releases, including a re-issue of a lesser-known Erroll Garner album.
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Paul Wee on Alkan
13th Jan 2020
Australian pianist and lawyer Paul Wee talks to David about his new recording of two monumental works by Alkan - the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano - and about his intense double career.
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Paul Wee (piano)
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Dave Brubeck Quartet at Oberlin & Wilshire-Ebell
13th Jan 2020
Two classic Dave Brubeck Quartet concerts from 1953 find the pianist, with saxophonist Paul Desmond, forging the sound that would soon sell a million albums.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet
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New Music Book Publications - 13th January 2020
13th Jan 2020
Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach and Irving Berlin; a history of fifteenth-century music; philosophical explorations of both the bodily experience and the love of music; an encyclopedia of Johnny Cash; and a discussion of the increasingly blurred distinction between music and sound effects in the modern soundtrack.
