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Benjamin Nicholas on Orchestrated Anthems
25th Jul 2023
Merton College Choir, the Britten Sinfonia and Benjamin Nicholas present a selection of magnificent orchestrations of favourite church music.
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Early Music Round-Up - Summer 2023
24th Jul 2023
Monumental Obrecht from Cappella Pratensis, Philips and Dering from the Choir of Gonville & Caius (gilded by the addition of In Echo's period instruments), a travelling composer's biography-in-music from La Serenissima, a thrilling Venetian 'battle of the bows' from Chouchane Siranossian and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, and more.
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Episode 39: A Mercury Legend - Antal Doráti with Rob Cowan and Thomas Fine
23rd Jul 2023
The Mono and Stereo recordings made by Antal Doráti with the Minnesota Orchestra are discussed with Rob Cowan and the executive producer of the new box sets, and son of the original producers, Thomas Fine.
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Ysaÿe's six sonatas for solo violin from Hilary Hahn
21st Jul 2023
Hilary Hahn finds magic, morbidity, merrymaking and much more in a brilliant new account of Ysaÿe's six affectionate character-sketches for his violinist friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2023
21st Jul 2023
Mendelssohn from Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Bach from Bojan Čičić, a Spanish recital from violinist Francisco Fullana, and fourteen-year-old treble Malakai Bayoh's debut on Decca.
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Nina Simone - You've Got To Learn
21st Jul 2023
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of her birth, this newly-discovered recording of the High Priestess of Soul's performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival encapsulates the essence of Simone's unparalleled abilities and world-class talent.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 21st July, 2023
21st Jul 2023
This week's round-up features new music from Aki Rissanen, Mark Lewandowski, Matt Choboter and William Evans & Roberto Koch. Enrico Periannunzi & Bert Joris join forces with help from the hr-Bigband, plus there's a new anthology box-set of Sonny Rollins recordings from his 'Way Out West'-era.
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Reginald Mobley on Because
20th Jul 2023
Ahead of his Proms performance of the programme at The Sage this weekend, the American countertenor discusses his album of spirituals and songs by Black composers with jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon, released on Alpha Classics in May.
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Because
Reginald Mobley (counter-tenor), Baptiste Trotignon (piano)
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Robyn Allegra Parton on Burnished Gold
19th Jul 2023
The British soprano discusses her Klimt-inspired debut solo album on Orchid Classics, exploring music by composers associated with the Viennese Secession movement and featuring songs by Joseph Marx, Alma Mahler, the teenage Erich Korngold and Johanna Müller-Hermann.
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Burnished Gold
Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
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Elina Duni talks 'A Time To Remember'
19th Jul 2023
The Swiss-Albanian vocalist discusses the inspiration behind her new album and her collaboration with ECM-founder, Manfred Eicher, as well as the powerful message she hopes to convey through song.
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A Time To Remember
Elina Duni & Rob Luft
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2023 Choices
18th Jul 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'truly exceptional' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 from Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on BIS.
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40 Years of Microjazz
18th Jul 2023
This year Boosey & Hawkes are celebrating forty years of the bestselling series Microjazz. Find out more.
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Owain Park on performing and dramatising Byrd's sacred music
17th Jul 2023
The Artistic Director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new anniversary-year album of Byrd, and their exciting new staged performance based around the music of Catholicism-in-hiding during England's Tudor era.
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John Wilson conducts orchestral works by American composer Kenneth Fuchs
14th Jul 2023
World premiere recordings of a quartet of orchestral works by Grammy Award-winning composer Kenneth Fuchs from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th July 2023
14th Jul 2023
Ysaÿe from Hilary Hahn, an all-horn programme from the horn section of the Munich Opera, archive recordings of Dvořák's Mass and Te Deum from the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Václav Smetácek, and Brian Smith Walter's LGBT song-recital with Adam Johnson.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 14th July, 2023
14th Jul 2023
This week's round-up features new releases from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Lorenzo De Finti & Fabrizio Bosso, Filip Jers with the Carl Bagge Trio and Steven Feifke. Plus, there's an archival live release of Sonny Rollins in Finland from 1972 and a reissue from Jasmine Myra.
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John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - Evenings At The Village Gate
14th Jul 2023
Our Recording of the Week is a formidable new release that captures an exciting and transitional phase in both artists' careers, in a live quintet recording from 1961.
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Iestyn Morris on Romances
13th Jul 2023
The countertenor talks about his new recording of Russian Romances with pianist Nigel Foster on Quartz Records.
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Romances
Iestyn Morris (countertenor), Nigel Foster (piano)
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2023
12th Jul 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'superb', 'charismatic' account of Handel's Serse with Emily D’Angelo in the title role...
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Celebrating 100 Years of Bärenreiter
12th Jul 2023
Bärenreiter is celebrating its 100th birthday! For the duration of the anniversary year Bärenreiter have presented us with nineteen jubilee editions.
