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This is Mainstream!
13th Sep 2019
A terrific compilation unearthing some gems from producer Bob Shad's Mainstream Records imprint, and including artists as diverse as Stanley Clark and Sarah Vaughan.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 13th September 2019
13th Sep 2019
This week's releases include new albums from Matt Olson, Frode Haltli, and Charlie Apicelli plus a selection of vinyl re-issues on Blue Note.
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Robin Ticciati on Duruflé and Debussy
12th Sep 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about his third recording of French repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which pairs the Duruflé Requiem with Debussy's Nocturnes.
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Miloš Karadaglić on The Sound of Silence
11th Sep 2019
The guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album, conceived during his recovery from a hand injury which put his career on hold for several years.
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Gramophone Awards 2019 - the top three in each category
11th Sep 2019
The final contenders in each of the ten genres were revealed this morning…
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A Farinelli homage from Cecilia Bartoli and other forthcoming highlights
10th Sep 2019
The Italian mezzo pays tribute to the most celebrated castrato of them all, plus a Viennese whirl with Jonas Kaufmann, Beethoven from Leonidas Kavakos and Masaaki Suzuki, and Purcell's King Arthur from Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli.
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Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea
10th Sep 2019
Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea is a hardy perennial that became one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. An expanded edition was issued in 2015, finally allowing us to savour in full that magical September evening in 1955 at the Sunset School, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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Raphaël Pichon on Libertà!
9th Sep 2019
The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.
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Works by Richard Strauss from Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
6th Sep 2019
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in thrillingly-detailed and impassioned performances of four orchestral works by Richard Strauss.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th September 2019
6th Sep 2019
New albums from Imogen Cooper, Emmanuelle Bertrand, The Sixteen and Mr McFall's Chamber, plus Simon Rattle's inaugural concert as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra on DVD and blu-ray.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 6th September 2019
6th Sep 2019
Two excellent releases from Norwegian label Odin are floating Matt's boat this week.
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Michael Janisch - Worlds Collide
6th Sep 2019
Worlds Collide in order to create brave new ones on Michael Janisch's highly enjoyable new album.
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Andrew Manze on Vaughan Williams
5th Sep 2019
The conductor talks to David about his recently-concluded series of Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Onyx, and the postscript to the cycle which will be released in October...
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Hyperion downloads now available!
4th Sep 2019
Hyperion and Helios recordings are now available to download (including over 400 in Hi-Res); to celebrate this new addition to the Presto catalogue, David picks out some highlights from Hyperion's forty-year history.
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Joe Henderson - Inner Urge
4th Sep 2019
One of the tenor players most enduring sessions, Inner Urge has lost none of its freshness over the past 50 years.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2019
3rd Sep 2019
Chris rounds up the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards, which will be presented at the Konzerthaus Berlin next month.
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The Presto Chart - August 2019
2nd Sep 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Mahan Esfahani's Bach Toccatas on Hyperion in first place...
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New Music Book Publications - 2nd September 2019
2nd Sep 2019
Books on composers including Gershwin, Korngold, Handel, and Prokofiev; a biography of acclaimed conductor Willem Mengelberg; a family guide to great composers from Classic FM; a history of music criticism; and a look at the development of postbop jazz in the 1960s.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2019
31st Aug 2019
Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion paint a vivid picture of Mozart on the cusp of operatic greatness, Christophe Rousset makes a hugely persuasive case for Gounod’s original version of Faust, and Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson beguile in a programme of music for cello and piano by the Mendelssohns.
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John Wilson conducts Korngold's Symphony in F sharp
30th Aug 2019
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London show their impressive credentials when it comes to the music of Korngold, with a thrillingly-performed account of the Symphony in F sharp.
