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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2019
1st Jul 2019
Intensely dramatic Janáček from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends, an operatic oratorio on The Fall of Man by Josef Mysliveček, and an intriguing debut album of chamber works from octogenarian composer Erika Fox.
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Alexandre Kantorow wins at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition
28th Jun 2019
The 22-year-old Frenchman was announced as this year's victor in the piano category last night, following eloquent performances of Tchaikovsky's and Brahms's Second Concertos in his final round earlier this week.
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Offenbach's La Périchole from Marc Minkowski
28th Jun 2019
One of the composer’s great champions celebrates last week’s bicentenary in style with the first period-instrument recording of this 1868 opéra bouffe about a couple of down-at-heel street-performers who are coerced into a drunken sham marriage.
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Offenbach: La Périchole
Aude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa) Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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Guy Johnston & Jonathan Clinch on the Howells Cello Concerto
27th Jun 2019
David talks to cellist Guy Johnston and musicologist Jonathan Clinch about Howells's Cello Concerto - recently reconstructed by Clinch, recorded by Johnston and released on the King's College label.
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Fenella Humphreys on Max Richter
25th Jun 2019
The British violinist talks to Katherine about her new recording of The Four Seasons Recomposed, out this Friday on Rubicon.
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The Fellini Album - The Film Music of Nino Rota
21st Jun 2019
Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Chailly enchant and delight in an album celebrating the legendary and prolific collaboration between director Federico Fellini and composer Nino Rota.
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The Fellini Album
Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
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Johannes Pramsohler on early trio sonatas
20th Jun 2019
The Paris-based violinist talks to David about his double-bill of new albums exploring the trio sonata in England and France, and the Italianate influences on its early evolution.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2019
19th Jun 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances's vivid accounts of Charpentier's Bible scenes.
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Cecilia Bartoli in L'Italiana in Algeri and other forthcoming highlights
18th Jun 2019
The Roman mezzo returns to her Rossinian roots in her role-debut as the irrepressible ‘Italian Girl’ abroad Isabella in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s contemporary staging, filmed at Salzburg last year.
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (DVD)
Cecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly) Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
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Hugo Ticciati on Purcell From The Ground Up
17th Jun 2019
The British-born violinist talks to David about his latest eclectic album with Ensemble O/Modernt, exploring a web of musical connections emanating from Purcell's chaconnes.
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Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019)
16th Jun 2019
The Italian opera and film director, whose lavish, spectacular stagings remain in production in many of the world's major houses, has died aged 96.
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Vox Luminis explore cantatas by the Bach family
14th Jun 2019
David listens to the Belgian ensemble's latest album, tracing the evolution of the cantata through the older branches of the Bach family tree.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th June 2019
14th Jun 2019
New recordings from Renée Fleming, Herbert Blomstedt, Matthew Barley and Pieter Wispelwey, plus DVDs/Blu-rays of two operatic rarities: Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane and Mercadante’s Didone abbandonata.
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Matthew Barley on Tavener's The Protecting Veil
13th Jun 2019
The boundary-crossing British cellist talks to David about his new recording of John Tavener's vast, sweeping concertante work for the cello.
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The Protecting Veil
Matthew Barley (cello) Sinfonietta Riga
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2019
12th Jun 2019
A celebration of Brigitte Fassbaender at 80, Karajan’s Bruckner and Tchaikovsky re-mastered, Myaskovsky’s complete string quartets, and DVD collections from Glyndebourne and the Wiener Staatsoper.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2019 Choices
11th Jun 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Rachel Podger, András Schiff, Julian Prégardien, and Markus Maskuniitty.
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John Andrews on Arne's The Judgment of Paris
10th Jun 2019
The conductor talks to David about his new recording of Thomas Arne's long-forgotten work, inspired by the contest of the three goddesses in Greek mythology.
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Samuel Barber's Vanessa from Glyndebourne
7th Jun 2019
The Pulitzer-winning 1958 opera receives a vividly cinematic staging from Keith Warner in its first outing on DVD and Blu-ray, filmed at the Sussex festival last summer.
