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New Release Round-Up - 17th August 2018
17th Aug 2018
Beethoven from the Elias Quartet, Mendelssohn from Anima Eterna Brugge, a friends-and-family affair from Mischa Maisky, and a fascinating collection of chamber works from the Russian-British composer Alissa Firsova.
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Rossini's Semiramide and other forthcoming vocal highlights
15th Aug 2018
Rossini's Babylonian opera presented uncut and on period instruments, plus new releases from Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Stuart Skelton and Barbara Hannigan.
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Rossini: Semiramide
Albina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder
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Christian Lindberg on Stenhammar
14th Aug 2018
The Swedish conductor talks to David about his new recording of Stenhammar's mighty Second Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2018
13th Aug 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's centenary tribute to their former Honorary President Leonard Bernstein taking pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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Gramophone Awards 2018 - the top three in each category
10th Aug 2018
The final contenders in each of the ten genres were revealed this morning…
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Music by Haydn and Schoenberg from cellist Alisa Weilerstein
10th Aug 2018
James listens to energetic, vital accounts of Haydn's two cello concertos from Alisa Weilerstein, coupled with an expressively radiant performance of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th August 2018
10th Aug 2018
Penderecki from Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bernstein from Antonio Pappano, Mozart from Daniel Barenboim and friends/family, plus the first commercial recording of an English Romantic opera conducted by Richard Bonynge.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2018 Choices
9th Aug 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from trombonist and BBC Young Musician of the Year Peter Moore, Sandrine Piau, Christopher Purves, and the Jerusalem Quartet.
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Costantino Mastroprimiano on Hummel
7th Aug 2018
The pianist talks to David about his recently-completed set of sonatas by the great Central European composer.
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Antonio Pappano on Bernstein
6th Aug 2018
Ahead of the Bernstein centenary later this month, the conductor talks to Katherine about recording his three symphonies with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (out this Friday on Warner Classics).
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Rachmaninov's Études-tableaux from Steven Osborne
3rd Aug 2018
Katherine is mesmerised by the Scottish pianist’s introspective but evocative accounts of Rachmaninov’s two sets of ‘study-pictures’, out now on Hyperion.
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Rachmaninov: Études-tableaux
Steven Osborne (piano)
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New Release Round-up - 3rd August 2018
3rd Aug 2018
New releases from the Binchois Consort, lutenist Jakob Lindberg, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plus Georg Solti's Tannhäuser in 5.1 surround sound and the complete Decca recordings of Alicia De Larrocha.
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Gramophone Awards 2018 Shortlist
1st Aug 2018
The sixty shortlisted recordings (half a dozen in each of ten categories) for this year’s Awards have just been revealed…
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The Presto Chart - July 2018
1st Aug 2018
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with the third instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston in first place.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2018
31st Jul 2018
A nocturnal English song recital from Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton, a compelling new opera from an octogenarian composer, and a bracing Alpine adventure from Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Benjamin Appl's Bach and other forthcoming highlights
30th Jul 2018
Also includes recital-albums from Thomas Hampson and Thomas Allen, Mahler from Simon Rattle, and Deborah Warner’s striking production of Billy Budd from the Teatro Real Madrid.
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Wagner's Die Meistersinger from Bayreuth, directed by Barrie Kosky
27th Jul 2018
Katherine reviews the Australian director's complex but illuminating 2017 production, which places the composer himself at the heart of the action.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th July 2018
27th Jul 2018
New releases from Steven Osborne and Mariss Jansons, plus the complete string quartets of James MacMillan and a newly-remastered set of Karl Böhm’s legendary recordings of the Mozart symphonies.
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Allan Clayton on Brett Dean's Hamlet
26th Jul 2018
Following on from our interview with the composer earlier this week, Katherine talks to the English tenor about bringing this new incarnation of Shakespeare's 'sweet prince' to life.
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Brett Dean: Hamlet (DVD)
Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger/Player-King), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
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Rattle conducts Bernstein and other forthcoming highlights
26th Jul 2018
A live recording of The Age of Anxiety with Bernstein’s friend Krystian Zimerman at the keyboard, plus the definitive Bach boxed set and new releases from Hélène Grimaud, Viktoria Mullova and Plácido Domingo.
