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Nate Smith on Live-Action
27th Sep 2025
The GRAMMY-nominated musician gives a glimpse into his latest album Live-Action.
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Live-Action
Nate Smith (drums, musician, keyboard), Josh Johnson (musician, saxophone), Sebastian White (designer), Marquis Hill (trumpet, musician), JSWISS (musician), Lalah Hathaway (chanting, musician, voice, vocal_arranger), Michael League (musician, bass), Lionel Loueke (musician, voice), säje (musician, voice), Amanda Taylor (vocal_arranger), Sara Gazarek (vocal_arranger), Erin Bentlage (vocal_arranger), Johnaye Kendrick (vocal_arranger), Kiefer, CARRTOONS, Ben Williams (bass, musician), Jeannette Jang (musician, violin), Anna Bishop (musician, violin), Kimberly Ryan (musician, viola), Peter Greydanus (musician, cello), Charlie Hunter (musician, guitar), DJ Harrison (keyboard), Jermaine Holmes (musician, voice), DJAY HARISSON (musician, rhodes)
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Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio - Tokyo
26th Sep 2025
The guitarist continues his tradition of alternating between acoustic and electric setups in his latest ECM trio album Tokyo.
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Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London
26th Sep 2025
Jamie Parker and Scarlett Strallen head a luxury cast on this luscious recording of the Pygmalion-inspired 1956 musical about an irascible phonetician who gives a Cockney flower-girl a socio-linguistic makeover.
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Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady
Scarlett Strallen (Eliza Doolittle), Jamie Parker (Henry Higgins), Alun Armstrong (Alfred P. Doolittle), Malcolm Sinclair (Colonel Pickering), Laurence Kilsby (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Julia McKenzie (Mrs Pearce), Penelope Wilton (Mrs Higgins) Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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New Release Round-Up - 26th September 2025
26th Sep 2025
Neapolitan songs from Pene Pati, a celebration of John Rutter from Clare College Cambridge, Telemann from Isabelle Faust and friends, and Vaughan Williams from the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th September 2025
26th Sep 2025
This week’s jazz highlights include Robert Plant’s roots-inspired Saving Grace, pianist Bill Laurance’s intimate solo Lumen and Donny McCaslin’s genre-blending Lullaby for the Lost.
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Craig Ogden on Tango at Tetbury, Dancing with Piazzolla and Latin Connections
25th Sep 2025
Ahead of opening the 2025 Tetbury Music Festival with the London Tango Quintet, and the release of a new Aquarelle Guitar Quartet album in October, Craig Ogden chatted with Matthew Ash about the breadth of his musical passions, the joys of chamber music and his choice of strings, giving insight into an instrument that is all too often unfairly viewed as sitting at the periphery of classical music.
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Carl Gorham on Extraordinary Journey
25th Sep 2025
The great-nephew of Sir George Shearing joins me to discuss the works of the great jazz legend, and his plans to bring the music to listeners of today with the help of his ensemble, Shear Brass.
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Sir John Rutter at 80
24th Sep 2025
Composer Sir John Rutter reflects on eight decades of music-making - from studying and conducting at Clare College Cambridge to the turn to full-time composition, and the various influences that have helped to shape his musical style.
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New Sheet Music Titles - 23rd September 2025
23rd Sep 2025
ABRSM jazz piano pieces for grade 6-8 pianists, organ works by Buxtehude, Songs by European Women Composers, a revised and corrected edition of Prokofieff's Romeo and Juliet op. 64, four new Omni Music Publishing full scores, and Philip Sparke's Windmix Trios for flexible ensemble.
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Presto Presents... Matilda Lloyd and Richard Gowers
23rd Sep 2025
The trumpeter and organist (here switching to piano!) joined us earlier this month to celebrate the launch of their new album Fantasia, which juxtaposes Baroque transcriptions with new works by Owain Park, Deborah Pritchard, Roxanna Panufnik and Richard Barnard.
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Will Dawes on Divine Light and the Indian choral tradition
22nd Sep 2025
The conductor of the unique choir of Oxford University's Somerville College talks about their new album of works from, and drawing on, some of the musical worlds of the Indian subcontinent.
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Count Basie: Architect of Swing
20th Sep 2025
A pivotal figure in the big band and swing era, Basie became one of America’s most prominent bandleaders, earning himself the title “King of Swing”.
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Ineza - IBUKA
19th Sep 2025
The vocalist makes her debut as a bandleader and composer in the heartfelt and emotionally-driven IBUKA.
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The Pavel Haas Quartet perform string quartets by Martinů
19th Sep 2025
Three years on from their previous recording of music by Brahms, the Czech quartet returns with a stunningly virtuosic album of four string quartets by their compatriot Bohuslav Martinů, showcasing an enormous dynamic range combined with an impressive precision and unanimity of purpose.
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Martinů: String Quartets 2-3-5-7
Pavel Haas Quartet
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New Release Round-Up - 19th September 2025
19th Sep 2025
John Rutter's piano concerto Reflections from Steven Osborne (with the composer conducting), Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 from Francesco Piemontesi, a ninetieth-birthday tribute to Arvo Pärt from the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, and Saint-Saëns's 1906 opera L'Ancêtre from Kazuki Yamada.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th September 2025
19th Sep 2025
This week’s jazz releases include Rolf Thofte’s debut on April Records, Cécile McLorin Salvant’s playful Oh Snap, and Johnathan Blake’s socially-driven My Life Matters.
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International Opera Awards 2025 - The Shortlisted Recordings
18th Sep 2025
Lisette Oropesa, Huw Montague Rendall and Rosa Feola are among the artists in the running for the solo recital category, whilst new accounts of Salome, Dido & Aeneas and Carmen go head-to-head in the complete recording stakes...
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Sheet Music Downloads from Carl Fischer & Theodore Presser now available!
18th Sep 2025
Presto Music are pleased to announce that we are the first UK retailer to list Carl Fischer and Theodore Presser’s digital catalogues. You can read more about the history of these two iconic American music publishers, and find some of our favourite selections here.
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Beethoven from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights
17th Sep 2025
The Icelandic pianist's new album is built around Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30, with other stand-outs for the autumn including an 'overwhelming' Mahler 2 from Kahchun Wong and the Hallé, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius from Edward Gardner, and an eclectic programme featuring Zappa and Cage from Marc-André Hamelin.
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Seong-Jin Cho on the LSO, Ravel and the Chopin Competition
16th Sep 2025
As his Artist Portrait series with the London Symphony Orchestra gets underway, the South Korean pianist discusses his relationship with the city, the new concerto by his compatriot Donghoon Shin which he'll premiere in November, and his memories of winning the International Chopin Piano Competition almost exactly a decade ago...
