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Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View
15th Sep 2023
Inspired by stunning landscapes and sea views, the new album from the Gondwana-boss and trumpeter is a richly immersive and soothing listening experience.
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John-Henry Crawford on Rachmaninoff
13th Sep 2023
The cellist talks about his new album of Rachmaninoff cello works, built around the sonata in G minor and exploring the relationship between the cello's timbre and the human voice.
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Richard Davis (1930-2023)
13th Sep 2023
The American bassist, known for his unique style and diverse contributions as a versatile sideman on such classic albums including Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch!, has died aged 93.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices
12th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place, 'investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour' in their Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff album...
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John Andrews on Ethel Smyth's Der Wald
11th Sep 2023
The conductor discusses the first-ever recording of Smyth's second opera - a deliciously dark fairy-tale in one act, which was premiered in Berlin in 1902 and subsequently transferred to the Metropolitan Opera.
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Ezra Collective win Mercury Prize 2023
11th Sep 2023
The London-based quintet have triumphed at this year's event with their second album Where I'm Meant To Be, pipping their fellow nominees to the post and proving the mettle of the British jazz scene at large.
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Peter Maxwell Davies: A postcard from Hoy, and a farewell to Stromness
9th Sep 2023
An account of a miniature Presto Pilgrimage over the summer holiday, in search of the former home of Peter Maxwell Davies in the Orkney Islands.
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A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet
8th Sep 2023
The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - Finalists Revealed
8th Sep 2023
The final contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed this morning, with Rachel Podger, Mahan Esfahani, Marc-André Hamelin and Quatuor Ebène among those in the running…
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New Release Round-Up - 8th September 2023
8th Sep 2023
Virtuosic Locatelli concertos from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico, regal Haydn symphonies from the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini, finely-shaded Mahler from Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s complex opera blending Gothic horror and Greek tragedy.
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New Piano Exam Materials
8th Sep 2023
This week has seen the release of new piano publications for both ABRSM and Trinity College exams, with additional repertoire added to the Trinity exam syllabus, and two new piano collections for intermediate to advanced students by Isata Kanneh-Mason. Find out more.
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Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light
8th Sep 2023
Embarking on this, their fourth impressive studio release - and first on a major label - the American free jazz collective deliver a rousing mixture of socially-charged spoken word and non-stop musical heat.
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Irreversible Entanglements, Camae Ayewa (voice, percussion, synthesizer), Luke Stewart (electric bass, percussion, sound effects, upright bass), Shahzad Ismaily, Keir Neuringer (synthesizer, percussion, clarinet, alto saxophone), Aquiles Navarro (synthesizer, percussion, trumpet), Tcheser Holmes (voice, percussion, drums), Janice Lowe (piano, voice), Sovie (voice), Leslie St. Lewis (cello)
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 8th September, 2023
8th Sep 2023
Our round-up this week features new music from Rhiannon Giddens, Jon Batiste, Mulgrew Miller, Baptiste Trotignon and Harold López-Nussa.
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John Wilson on Oklahoma!
7th Sep 2023
In the run-up to the release of his new recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's first musical, the conductor explains how a chance encounter with the piece at the age of fourteen changed his life - and why he considers it to be 'the Marriage of Figaro of the twentieth century'.
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Jonathan Sells on motets by two Bachs
6th Sep 2023
The founder and director of early music collective Solomon's Knot talks about the group's new album of motets, pairing Johann Sebastian Bach's six motets with those of his ancestor and precursor Johann Christoph.
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15 Years of Edition Records
6th Sep 2023
Having transformed itself into a home for an elite calibre of global musicianship and artistry since its foundation in 2008, we send Dave Stapleton's homegrown label our own birthday wishes and cherry-pick ten of our favourite releases from its remarkable catalogue.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - September 2023
5th Sep 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the September 2023 issue include new music from Johnathan Blake, Harold López-Nussa, Nite Bjuti, Emma Rawicz, Shakti, Tyshawn Sorey and David Virelles, as well as reissues and archival releases from Idris Muhammad and Nina Simone.
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The Presto Chart - August 2023
4th Sep 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...
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New Music Book Publications - 4th September 2023
4th Sep 2023
A history of song from the troubadours to the present day, a physiological guide to playing the violin, paperback editions of books on Ivor Gurney and Stephen Sondheim, a study of Mozart's operas in Prague, essays on African music by noted scholar Kofi Agawu, a biography of nineteenth-century American music critic John Sullivan Dwight, and an exploration of the relationship between music and the environment in medieval northern France.
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Monteverdi's Vespers from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion
1st Sep 2023
Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble offer a vivid, contrast-filled account of Monteverdi's sacred masterwork. A new benchmark recording of the Vespers? Quite possibly.
