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Hi-Res Highlights, Hi-Res Highlights - January 2019
23rd January 2019
Includes new releases from Federico Colli, Christophe Rousset, Boris Giltburg and Paavo Järvi, and four re-issues from the Juilliard Quartet.
Gramophone Choices, Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2019
22nd January 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s live recording of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (starring Furio Zanasi as the returning hero and Lucile Richardot as his long-suffering wife) in the lead as Recording of the Month.
Recording of the Week, Berlioz from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
18th January 2019
Tabea Zimmermann and Stéphane Degout are the soloists in period-instrument performances of Harold en Italie & Les nuits d'été.
New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 18th January 2019
18th January 2019
New recordings from Gautier Capuçon, Christophe Rousset, Concentus Musicus Wien, and Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris.
Awards, BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019: Shortlist
17th January 2019
The nominations are in and voting is open!
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Presto Recording of the Week
Berlioz: Harold en Italie & Les Nuits d'été
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
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Katherine listens to period-instrument performances of Berlioz's Harold en Italie, with soloist Tabea Zimmermann, and Les Nuits d'été, sung by baritone Stéphane Degout, from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth.
