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The Seasons from Yunchan Lim
22nd Aug 2025
Yunchan Lim follows his award-winning debut with a colourful and imaginative recording of Tchaikovsky's best known work for solo piano, demonstrating fertile imagination and further dimensions to his pianism.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd August 2025
22nd Aug 2025
A second volume of Mozart from Federico Colli, songs of the Belle Époque from Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi, Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres in the title-roles, and Haydn's The Seasons from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd August 2025
22nd Aug 2025
A jam packed selection of new releases this week, including the latest from international vocalist Laufey and Grammy-winning pianist Jon Batiste.
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The Sidekick of Your Sound: A Deep Dive into Guitar Cables
21st Aug 2025
Guitar cables might seem like the boring second-thought sidekick in your gear arsenal or wish-list, but they're the vital artery pumping your tone from instrument to amplifier. Skimp on them and you're inviting a tonal Bertolt Brecht tragedy.
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Giovanni Antonini on Il Giardino Armonico
20th Aug 2025
As the Italian period instrument ensemble celebrates its fortieth anniversary, its founder member and current Music Director reflects on the group's evolution - and why he believes that 'everything in Italy is theatre, for better or for worse'...
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Offenbach from Véronique Gens and other vocal highlights for the autumn
19th Aug 2025
The French tragedienne lets her hair down in operetta, with other stand-outs including Donizetti songs from Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi, a lute song recital with a difference from countertenor Reginald Mobley, and a bel canto album from Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee.
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New Sheet Music Titles - 19th August 2025
19th Aug 2025
The Complete John Rutter Piano Album, piano duets and trios by Melanie Spanswick, Rockschool's new piano syllabus, choral music by John Rutter, Reginal Wright, and Lucy Walker, Hal Leonard's Recorder Method, and Coleridge-Taylor's Four Characteristic Waltzes, op. 22.
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Author Focus: Paul Harris - Improve Your Scales
19th Aug 2025
In part seven of our 'Author Focus' series, Paul discusses how to improve your scales, why they are important, and how to make scales more enjoyable!
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2025 Choices
18th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Rachel Podger's 'spontaneous and sensitive' accounts of six Biber violin sonatas with Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics.
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Celebrating 100 Years of Oscar Peterson
15th Aug 2025
On the special occasion of Oscar Peterson's 100th Birthday, we take a deep dive into the Grammy-winning pianist's life, music, and legacy.
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Ivan Farmakovskiy - Epic Power
15th Aug 2025
Recorded over ten years ago, the Russian pianist’s sophomore album is finally released, featuring the talents of bassist Christian McBride and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
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Four Spirits from Abel Selaocoe
15th Aug 2025
The cello-centred multi-instrumentalist presents his genre-defying new concertante work, drawing on South African and Western classical musical lineages and with co-starring roles for percussion and voice.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th August 2025
15th Aug 2025
Early Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Schubert + Beethoven from Can Çakmur, British piano quintets from Peter Donohoe and I Musicanti, and Agricola from Austrian early music ensemble Beauty Farm.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th August 2025
15th Aug 2025
This week’s releases include gritty rhythm and blues in Go Get Gone, a bold international jazz trio in Epic Power and reflective minimalism in Eigengrau.
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Michael Repper and Curtis Stewart on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
14th Aug 2025
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the conductor and violinist talk about their shared passion for making the unheard heard, ensuring music is accessible, and the teamwork behind their new album.
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Nigel Short on A Prayer for Deliverance
13th Aug 2025
Tenebrae's conductor talks about the choir's most recent album, pairing an astonishing, virtuosic and powerful new work from rising US composer Joel Thompson with Howells's well-loved Requiem.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2025
12th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'welcome, colourful and, at times, unconventional' set of Bach orchestral transcriptions by the late Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos.
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New Music Book Publications - August 2025
12th Aug 2025
An examination of the film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a companion to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, a collection of letters by Broadway composer Frank Loesser, volumes dedicated to composers including Arnold Schoenberg, Bohuslav Martinů, and Pierre Boulez, essays by musicologist Susan McClary, a paperback edition of the memoir by composer and Master of the King's Music Errollyn Wallen, an exploration of the art of orchestration in musical theatre, an analysis of Dolly Parton's Jolene, and the debut novel by Harriet Constable.
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Martin Baker on Corpus Christi from Buckfast Abbey
11th Aug 2025
The organist and composer talks about his newly-commissioned Mass for Buckfast Abbey, and some of the age-old strands of liturgical music that partly inspired it.
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Frida Touray - Homebody
8th Aug 2025
The vocalist releases her latest EP with Edition Records, making it her first foray back into music-making after a period of recovery and rebuilding.
