Latest News: Classical
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Interview,
Bertrand Chamayou on Good Night! 9th December 2020The French pianist talks to Katherine about his beguiling collection of lullabies by composers including Lyapunov, Liszt, Alkan and Mel Bonis, released in October on Erato.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2020 8th December 2020Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis taking top honours for their 'inner luminosity' in a programme of music for Passiontide by Andreas Hammerschmidt on Ricercar.
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Presto CD,
New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD 7th December 2020A wide variety of music, from Haydn to Sciarrino, is available on our latest batch of Presto CDs.
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Interview,
Gunnar Idenstam on Metal Angel 6th December 2020The Swedish concert organist talks about his new album, blending the French Romantic sound-world with influences from Scandinavian symphonic metal.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Simpson's Geysir and Mozart's Gran Partita for Winds 4th December 2020Mark Simpson leads an ensemble in radiant performances of two works for wind instruments: his own composition, Geysir, alongside Mozart's Gran Partita.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 4th December 2020 4th December 2020World premiere recordings of orchestral works by Elisabetta Brusa and the original Roman version of Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran, the recording debut of the young American pianist Paul Ji, and a boxed set celebrating Adrian Boult’s relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 9: The English Choral Tradition with David Smith 3rd December 2020Presto's own David Smith, a lay clerk at St. Philip's Cathedral Birmingham and member of Ex Cathedra, charts the turbulent development of the English choral tradition.
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Favourites,
Christmas Releases 2020 3rd December 2020Our round-up of this year’s crop of festive recordings – traditional favourites, lesser-known gems of early music, contemporary carols and more intimate solo transcriptions.
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Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - November 2020 2nd December 2020Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Daniil Trifonov's celebration of Russia's 'Silver Age' on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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Interview,
David Temple on seasonal Britten 1st December 2020The conductor talks about his new recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Saint Nicolas with Crouch End Festival Chorus, Mark Le Brocq and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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Presto Editor's Choices,
Presto Editor's Choices - November 2020 30th November 2020Ian Bostridge's miller-lad toughens up on the tenor's third recording of Die schöne Müllerin, whilst Philippe Jaroussky and TrioW both unearth some fascinating buried treasure and Paavo Järvi begins a promising new Tchaikovsky cycle.
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Recording of the Week,
A Christmas double-bill from Mexico and Ireland 27th November 2020Two glorious albums from Siglo de Oro and the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin bring us onto the final straight to Christmas – focusing on Central American and Gaelic festive celebrations.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 27th November 2020 27th November 2020Prokofiev and Myaskovsky from Vasily Petrenko, Puccini's Il tabarro from Marek Janowski, Martinů from Frank Peter Zimmermann, and a celebration of 'Queen of Baroque' Cecilia Bartoli.
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Announcement,
Give Back Friday 27th November 2020For the next four days we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to two charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: the Chineke! Foundation and the Benedetti Foundation.
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Announcement,
Introducing Presto Instruments & Accessories 26th November 2020We are very pleased to be able to announce the latest development on the Presto website: a new department dedicated to musical instruments and accessories which we launched at the end of last month.
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Favourites,
Gifts for... Baroque and Early Music fans 25th November 2020Books and recordings for lovers of Renaissance and baroque music.
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Awards,
Grammy Nominations 2021 25th November 2020The shortlist for next year's Awards was revealed yesterday - read on for full details of the contenders in the nine classical categories.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2020 24th November 2020A mammoth tribute to Karl Richter, David Goode’s complete Bach organ works on Signum, Ronald Brautigam’s complete Mozart piano concertos, and a deluxe celebration of Bernard Haitink on DVD.
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Interview,
Avi Avital on The Art of the Mandolin 23rd November 2020The Israeli mandolinist talks about his latest album, in which he swaps his usual diet of transcriptions for a programme of works written specifically for the mandolin.
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Recording of the Week,
Carnival of the Animals from the Kanneh-Masons 20th November 2020The seven siblings bring Saint-Saëns’s menagerie to teeming life, with Michael Morpurgo delivering his own new narration with avuncular charm.