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Zlatomir Fung on Fantasies
25th Jun 2025
The young American cellist discusses his debut solo album on Signum, featuring virtuosic fantasies on operas by Donizetti, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Bizet - plus his own astute paraphrase on Janáček's Jenůfa.
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Fantasies
Zlatomir Fung (cello), Richard Fu (piano)
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2025
24th Jun 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Bojan Čičić's 'masterly' recording of Biber's complete violin sonatas from 1681 on Delphian.
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Christopher Gray on Lament and Liberation
23rd Jun 2025
The Music Director of St John's College Cambridge talks about his first album with the choir - built around James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and Joanna Marsh's Echoes in Time.
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Russian cello sonatas from Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen
20th Jun 2025
The German wife-and-husband duo present a magnificent double album of six cello sonatas from Russian and Soviet composers, composed between the 1890s and 1970s.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th June 2025
20th Jun 2025
Haydn from Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Biber from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum from Pablo Heras-Casado in Freiburg, and fin de siècle French music from the Neave Trio.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2025 Choices
18th Jun 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard's recording of his long-term friend György Kurtág's Játékok on Pentatone.
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Alfred Brendel (1931-2025)
17th Jun 2025
The legendary Czech-born Austrian pianist, writer, poet and artist has died at the age of 94, surrounded by family at his home in Hampstead Heath.
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Edward Gardner on the LPO, Tippett, and Britten
17th Jun 2025
The British conductor talks about his memories of conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the very first time, why he chose an opera by Tippett for his first concert as their Principal Conductor back in 2021, and his new album of works by Benjamin Britten.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Via Crucis
16th Jun 2025
The Norwegian pianist talks to Matthew Ash about the challenges and unique beauty of Via Crucis, his long relationship with it and the pieces he chose to complete the programme.
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Episode 58: Antal Doráti in London, with producer Thomas Fine
14th Jun 2025
Two new box sets celebrate Antal Doráti’s London recordings for Mercury in the 1950s and ’60s. Rob Cowan is joined by producer and remastering engineer Thomas Fine, whose parents recorded the original sessions, to discuss some of the many highlights in the sets.
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Furtwängler from Neeme Järvi
13th Jun 2025
At the helm of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Järvi family patriarch makes a convincing case for the German conductor's shapeshifting Symphony No. 2, completed in Switzerland shortly after he fled Nazi Germany in 1945.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th June 2025
13th Jun 2025
A Pan-European programme from La Serenissima, Stravinsky and Ravel from Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, Bach from Francesco Tristano, and Brahms's clarinet sonatas (in new orchestrations by Stephan Koncz) from Daniel Ottensamer and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Spring 2025
11th Jun 2025
In this round-up of contemporary releases from the first months of 2025, we look at the keyboard through new eyes, take to the stage for twenty-first-century opera suites, encounter exciting piano concertos for the first time, and hear the viola in a whole new light.
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Ophélie Gaillard on Cello Tango
10th Jun 2025
The French cellist discusses her new album of music by Piazzolla, Ginastera, Gardel and others (released on Aparté in April), falling in love with tango during a tour to Buenos Aires, and why the milonga is the perfect place to let off steam after a concert...
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Aziz Shokhakimov in Strasbourg
9th Jun 2025
Ahead of a performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring earlier this spring, the Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg sat down with Presto to discuss his pre- and post-concert routines, building a relationship with the city and its orchestra, and their new recording of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé on Warner Classics.
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Klaus Mäkelä conducts Berlioz and Ravel
6th Jun 2025
The Finnish conductor and the Orchestre de Paris present an incredibly colourful and terrifying reading of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique alongside a riotously chaotic account of Ravel's La valse.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th June 2025
6th Jun 2025
Debussy and Messiaen from Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida, Sibelius from Nicholas Collon and Christian Tetzlaff with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Angela Hewitt, and Haydn from the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
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Magdalena Kožená on L'extase
5th Jun 2025
Ahead of the release of her new album with Mitsuko Uchida on Pentatone tomorrow, the Czech mezzo discusses their shared passion for Debussy - and how she fell in love with French song behind the Iron Curtain as a teenager.
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Martin Iddon on Hesperides
4th Jun 2025
The composer talks about his recent album of delicate, mysterious compositions, performed by the aptly-named Quiet Music Ensemble, released in April on NMC Recordings.
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Martin Iddon: Hesperides
Jack Adler-McKean, Quiet Music Ensemble
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Alexandre Dratwicki on Bizet and Bru Zane
3rd Jun 2025
On the 150th anniversary of Bizet's death, Bru Zane's Artistic Director discusses a new anthology exploring the French composer's lesser-known works - and outlines the label's plans to shine a light on some of his near-forgotten compatriots from the early twentieth century...
