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New Release Round-Up - 30th August 2019
30th Aug 2019
New albums from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Masaaki Suzuki, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pygmalion, plus the 1859 version of Gounod’s Faust from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 30th August 2019
30th Aug 2019
A brace of Impulse! vinyl reissues have caught Matt's eye this week.
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Veronica Swift - Confessions
30th Aug 2019
Veronica Swift's assured debut album Confessions is an enjoyable showcase for an exciting new jazz vocalist, with excellent support from some of New York's finest players.
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Confessions
Veronica Swift
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Anne-Sophie Mutter on John Williams
29th Aug 2019
The violinist talks to James about her new album of music by John Williams, featuring a selection of movie themes specially reworked for violin and orchestra, conducted by the composer himself.
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Educator's Discount now available on sheet music and books
29th Aug 2019
We are delighted to introduce our new Educator's Discount, with 10% off sheet music and books available to all who work in music education.
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Educator's Discount now available on books and sheet music
29th Aug 2019
We are delighted to introduce our new Educator's Discount, with 10% off sheet music and books available to all who work in music education.
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Antoine Tamestit on Bach
27th Aug 2019
The viola-player talks to David about his recording of the three gamba sonatas on Stradivari’s ‘Gustav Mahler’ viola from 1672 - one of only thirteen extant violas by the legendary Cremonese luthier.
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Winterreise from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès
23rd Aug 2019
Fifteen years on from his first audio recording of the work, the British tenor retraces Schubert’s 'Winter Journey' with a new companion in an unsettling, unsentimentalised interpretation that’s underpinned by years of scholarship on both sides.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd August 2019
23rd Aug 2019
New albums from Antoine Tamestit, Ivo Pogorelich, Johannes Moser and Annelien Van Wauwe, plus a celebration of Vladimir Horowitz’s Carnegie Hall comeback in 1965.
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Long Yu on Gateways
22nd Aug 2019
The conductor talks to David about his new album with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - marking the orchestra's signing to Deutsche Grammophon with a programme of Russian- and Chinese- related works, including two by Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.
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Jelly Roll Morton
21st Aug 2019
Matt explores Jelly Roll Morton's recordings both as a solo pianist and with the Red Hot Peppers group.
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‘Mr Jelly Lord'
Jelly-Roll Morton
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Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano
21st Aug 2019
Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano is a beautifully produced collection of some of Radiohead's best-loved songs, arranged for intermediate to advanced piano solo with lyrics, by YouTube pianist Josh Cohen. This band-approved book features a specially designed cover and mono prints throughout from Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood.
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Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano
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Quatuor Ébène's Beethoven odyssey and other forthcoming highlights
20th Aug 2019
The French quartet embark on a world tour and series of live recordings of the complete string quartets to mark the composer’s upcoming 250th birthday, plus anniversary Berlioz from John Nelson, and a triptych of ‘sea pictures’ from Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
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New Music Book Publications - 19th August 2019
19th Aug 2019
A critical biography of Shostakovich; conversations with The Sixteen's musical director, Harry Christophers; an examination of the influence of Mahler on the music of Aaron Copland; the history of electronic music; a study of Andy Kirk and his jazz band, Clouds of Joy; and music diaries for 2020 from Boosey & Hawkes.
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Stanford Ceremonial Works from Howard Shelley and the Ulster Orchestra
16th Aug 2019
Pomp and circumstance aplenty in A Song of Agincourt and the 'Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue' Verdun, and ethereal magic from the ladies of Codetta chamber choir in Fairy Day.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019
Debut solo albums from Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov and award-winning South African tenor Levy Sekgapane, and music by Korngold for stage and screen.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019
A couple of standout vocal releases from Jazzmeia Horn and Bryony Jarman-Pinto are the highlights this week. Matt also revisits some not-strictly-jazz but still improvised releases that remind him of his youth.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2019
14th Aug 2019
Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by ‘a piano recording that really plucks at the heart-strings’ - Denis Kozhukhin's selections of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte on Pentatone.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2019
13th Aug 2019
Semyon Bychkov’s Tchaikovsky Project reaches completion, plus a mammoth celebration of George Szell in Cleveland, and previously unreleased recordings documenting Vladimir Horowitz’s 1965 comeback at Carnegie Hall.
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Ivan Ilić on Stegmann's transcriptions of Haydn
12th Aug 2019
The Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about discovering and recording solo piano arrangements of Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44 by Carl David Stegmann, a conductor, composer and tenor who sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni.
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44
Ivan Ilić (piano)
