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Recordings of the Year 2025 - Our Top 10
4th Dec 2025
The winners revealed - ten fantastic recordings which really stood out from the crowd for us over the past twelve months, plus the results of our six special category awards...
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Gifts for... Baroque and Early Music fans
3rd Dec 2025
In the latest of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the early music fan in your life, from the latest albums, vinyl reissues and collections, to the best recent books about the music and society of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
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David Matthews & Jac van Steen on their musical friendship
2nd Dec 2025
The British composer and Dutch conductor discuss their various collaborations over the last three decades, including a new album of Matthews's Symphony No. 11, Flute Concerto and Symphonic Diptych from the opera Anna (released last month on SOMM).
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The Presto Chart - November 2025
1st Dec 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, headed by Víkingur Ólafsson's illuminating recital centring on Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 109 on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Presto Team Choices - November 2025
30th Nov 2025
Bracing Brahms from Kirill Petrenko in Berlin, Florence Price organ works from Tom Winpenny, the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel Symphony, and a compelling pasticcio on the Orpheus myth from Rolando Villazón, L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar.
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A Cuban Christmas from The Sarahbanda
28th Nov 2025
Horn-player Sarah Willis and her Havana-based dance-band add spice and salsa to a host of seasonal favourites including an exuberant reimagining of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, with guest vocals from Carlos Calunga (of Buena Vista Social Club fame).
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New Release Round-Up - 28th November 2025
28th Nov 2025
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini and the Kammerorchester Basel, Bach from Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances, Ravel from the Nash Ensemble, and previously unreleased recordings by the late Radu Lupu.
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Give Back Friday 2025
27th Nov 2025
For four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to two incredible charities that align with our passion for music and its power to transform lives: Gabrielli Consort and Young Sounds UK.
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Michael Waldron on his new Christmas album with London Choral Sinfonia
27th Nov 2025
The Musical Director of London Choral Sinfonia visited Presto to talk about his latest album of Christmas music, released on Orchid Classics to celebrate the ensemble's tenth anniversary.
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Early Music Round-Up - Autumn 2025
27th Nov 2025
World premieres from the Peterhouse Partbooks, a unique fusion of Baroque and Middle Eastern traditions from sweet-toned tenor Haitham Haidar, a rich collection of Jenkins viol consort music from Fretwork, a Venetian preview of Christmas from Il Pomo d'Oro, and more.
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Christophe Rousset on Christmas with Charpentier
26th Nov 2025
The French conductor talks about his new album with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, which puts the spotlight on glorious ancien régime works for the Christmas season.
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Gifts for... Piano-lovers
25th Nov 2025
In the latest of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the piano-lover in your life, from the latest albums, vinyl reissues and collections, to the best recent books about piano music. Even Bluey makes an appearance...
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Thibaut Garcia on adapting and performing Bach's Goldberg Variations with Antoine Morinière
24th Nov 2025
A unique new twist on Bach's Goldberg Variations sees these two guitarists rehearse, play - and even think - as one.
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Víkingur Ólafsson shares a new perspective on Op. 109
21st Nov 2025
Víkingur Ólafsson’s new album is built around Beethoven’s Op. 109 piano sonata, with the much-loved Icelandic pianist bringing fresh perspective to a cornerstone of the repertoire, elucidating connections with the music of Bach and Schubert, and reinforcing the fact that the composer was more than the romanticised revolutionary of popular legend.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st November 2025
21st Nov 2025
Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius from Edward Gardner and the LPO, Brahms's Symphony No. 1 from Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker, a portrait of Avril Coleridge-Taylor, and Schubert from Leif Ove Andsnes & Bertrand Chamayou.
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Classical Recordings of the Year - Finalists 2025
20th Nov 2025
The first meeting of the Presto Awards committee is over, and it's time to reveal the 100 recordings which have most impressed our editorial team this year...
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A Prayer For Deliverance
Hannah Cooke (contralto), Tom Robson (tenor), Emma Walshe (soprano), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Nicholas Madden (tenor), Joseph Edwards (baritone), Gabriel Crouch (bass-baritone), Jimmy Holliday (bass-baritone), Rosanna Wicks (soprano), Anna Semple (contralto), Jack Granby (tenor), Tenebrae, Nigel Short
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Anoushka Shankar on tradition and innovation
19th Nov 2025
In the wake of winning the Ivor Novello Innovation Award last week, the sitar virtuoso and composer reflects on how she found a balance between honouring her father's legacy and forging her own artistic identity - with a little help from her friends...
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Presto Music streams into Asia
19th Nov 2025
Our acclaimed classical & jazz music-streaming service is now available in 11 more territories, including China, Japan and South Korea.
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Gifts for... Opera-Lovers
18th Nov 2025
In the first of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the opera-lover in your life, from the latest complete recordings and recital-albums to the best recent books about opera.
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Lise Davidsen (Senta), Gerald Finley (The Dutchman), Brindley Sherratt (Daland), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Erik), Anna Kissjudit (Mary), Eirik Grøtvedt (Steersman) Orchestra and Chorus of Norwegian National Opera, Edward Gardner
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Sir Donald McIntyre (1934-2025)
17th Nov 2025
The New Zealand-born bass-baritone, who was a regular at the Bayreuth Festival for over two decades and triumphed as Wotan in the 1976 centenary production of the Ring Cycle, has died aged 91.
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Gwyneth Jones (Brünnhilde), Peter Hofmann (Siegmund), Jeannine Altmeyer (Sieglinde/Gutrune), Matti Salminen (Hunding), Manfred Jung (Siegfried), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Fritz Hübner (Hagen) Bayreuth Festspiele, Pierre Boulez
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