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New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2020
28th Feb 2020
Schoenberg from Isabelle Faust and friends, Beethoven from the Capuçon Brothers and Frank Braley, Offenbach’s Spanish operetta Maître Péronilla, and an all-star Porgy & Bess from the Metropolitan Opera.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2020
28th Feb 2020
Anybody for some Georgian folk music crossed with microtonal jazz? What's that? I read your mind... then join us for the latest jazz new release round-up.
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Debussy & Rameau from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights
26th Feb 2020
An all-French programme from the award-winning Icelandic pianist, plus Vinci from Franco Fagioli, more Korngold from John Wilson, and Verdi’s Otello from Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Academia Nationale di Santa Cecilia.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2020
25th Feb 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, with Benjamin Grosvenor's accounts of the Chopin piano concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Elim Chan leading the way as Recording of the Month.
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Penelope Roskell: The Complete Pianist
25th Feb 2020
The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime’s experience of teaching, performing and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing.
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New Music Book Publications - 24th February 2020
24th Feb 2020
A guide to the music of Mendelssohn; discussions of the music of William Byrd, and Ernest Bloch; a biography of "Hitler's Pianist", Ernst Hanfstaengl; a social history of the drum kit; an exploration of symbolism in music of the Middle Ages; and volumes on jazz musicians Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington.
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Charles Hubert Parry's Judith from William Vann and the London Mozart Players
21st Feb 2020
Parry’s 1888 oratorio on the Apocryphal tale of an avenging Jewish widow emerges as a worthy successor to Mendelssohn’s Elijah in this gripping world premiere recording with Sarah Fox, Kathryn Rudge and Toby Spence.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st February 2020
21st Feb 2020
Chopin from Benjamin Grosvenor, Dvořák and Copland from Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, Farrenc from Christoph König and the Solistes Européens Luxembourg, and a boxed set of Karajan recordings from Decca.
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Ivo Neame & Jim Hart - Multiverse
21st Feb 2020
Ivo Neame and Jim Hart set the controls for the heart of the sun on the terrific Multiverse project.
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Jim Hart (drums & vibraphone), Ivo Neame (piano)
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Beethoven 2020 - forthcoming highlights
19th Feb 2020
Anniversary tributes from artists including Maurizio Pollini, Rudolf Buchbinder, Teodor Currentzis, the Capuçon brothers.
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Hamish Milne (1939-2020)
18th Feb 2020
The British pianist, who was particularly associated with the music of Nikolai Medtner, has died aged 80.
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New titles added to Presto CD - February 2020
17th Feb 2020
Including Riccardo Chailly conducting Orff's Carmina Burana, Dvořák's Piano Concerto from András Schiff and Shostakovich's Symphony No 14 from Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Owen Rees on Josquin and his legacy
17th Feb 2020
David talks to conductor and musicologist Owen Rees about his latest album with Contrapunctus, exploring the impact of Josquin on Spanish polyphony.
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Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020)
17th Feb 2020
The Dutch pianist, conductor and composer has died aged 81.
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Netherlands Radio Choir (chorus), Natalia Zagorinskaya (soprano), Gerrie de Vries (mezzo-soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Harry van der Kamp (bass), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Elliott Simpson (guitar), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Csaba Király (pianino, spoken word) Asko | Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw
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Herbie Hancock - Thrust
17th Feb 2020
Herbie Hancock's Thrust is a jazz-funk tour de force that saw the keyboard whiz-kid experimenting with new gear and an exciting new drummer.
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Papagena - Hush!
15th Feb 2020
David talks to members of the all-female vocal quintet about their new recording on Somm Recordings.
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Paavo Järvi conducts orchestral works by Bartók
14th Feb 2020
The NHK Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi perform a trio of works by Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra, Dance Suite, and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2020
14th Feb 2020
Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, Sibelius from Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Schumann, Poulenc and Zemlinsky from German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Hasse and Lady Gaga from Simone Kermes.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2020
14th Feb 2020
New albums from pianist Aaron Diehl, drummer Trilok Gurtu, guitar legend Pat Metheny, fusion from Eric Vloeimans and a compilation of Maynard Ferguson live in the mid-seventies.
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Paavo Järvi on the NHK Symphony Orchestra
13th Feb 2020
Ahead of the release of their album of Bartók on Sony Classical tomorrow, the Japanese orchestra's Chief Conductor talks to Katherine about expanding their twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire and his plans for their future together.
