Classical Recommendations
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Recordings of the Year 2024 - Special Category Nominees
28th Nov 2024
In advance of the final verdicts next Thursday evening, we reveal the shortlists for our six special awards - including Archive Project, Debut Solo Album, and two separate categories of world premiere recordings.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2024
27th Nov 2024
November heavyweights include collections celebrating William Christie, John Williams, Paavo Järvi, Pieter Wispelwey and the Belcea Quartet.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - November 2024
25th Nov 2024
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a 'stunning collection' of all Ravel's works with piano from François-Xavier Poizat, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Simone Menezes on Aparté.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd November 2024
22nd Nov 2024
An eightieth-birthday album from William Christie and friends, Massenet's Hérodiade from Berlin with Clémentine Margaine in the title-role, orchestral works by Edward MacDowell from the BBC Philharmonic and John Wilson, and Brahms & Schumann from James Ehnes (on viola) & Andrew Armstrong.
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Classical Recordings of the Year - Finalists 2024
21st Nov 2024
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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New Release Round-Up - 15th November 2024
15th Nov 2024
Violin concertos by Rózsa and Bartók from LSO leader Roman Simovic, Brahms cello sonatas from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, a new work by Nokuthula Ngwenyama from the Takács Quartet, and early Schumann from Charles Owen.
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Grammy Nominations 2025
12th Nov 2024
The shortlist for next year's Awards was revealed last week - read on for full details of the contenders in the nine classical categories.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th November 2024
8th Nov 2024
A new Chopin rediscovery from Lang Lang, two sparkling concertos from Matilda Lloyd, revelatory Mozart from Alec Frank-Gemmill, and infectiously tuneful Rieti from Alessandro Marangoni.
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Early Music Round-Up - Summer & Autumn 2024
6th Nov 2024
An intimate programme of Strozzi from Berit Norbakken and Solmund Nystabakk, a historical reconstruction from Rachel Redmond and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, a plentiful crop of rediscoveries by female Baroque composers from Sophie de Bardonnèche and friends, delicate works featuring one, two and even three early harps from La Smisuranza, and more.
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The Presto Chart - October 2024
4th Nov 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, headed by Raphaël Pichon's augmented Mozart Requiem with Pygmalion on Harmonia Mundi...
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Presto Team Choices - October 2024
2nd Nov 2024
The editorial team selects some personal favourites from October's crop of new releases, including Bruckner's piano music from Mari Kodama, a white-hot new Norma from Marina Rebeka, Maurizio Pollini's final recording of Schubert, and a spellbinding album of music by Freya Waley-Cohen.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st November 2024
1st Nov 2024
Tchaikovsky's The Seasons from Bruce Liu, Brahms and Schubert from Alexandre Kantorow, Haydn's 'Surprise' Symphony from Giovanni Antonini, and Franck & Fauré from Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2024 Choices
29th Oct 2024
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by 'A Celebration of Women's Voices' from harpist Louise Thomson, the Corvus Consort and Freddie Crowley on Chandos.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th October 2024
25th Oct 2024
Kathryn Stott's final recording (with her friend and long-term colleague Yo-Yo Ma), Sibelius from James Ehnes and Edward Gardner in Bergen, Schubert from the late Maurizio Pollini and his son Daniele, and Classical opera arias from Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá.
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2024
23rd Oct 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Argo, a 150th anniversary anthology of music by Charles Ives, a twentieth-birthday box from Vox Luminis, and a celebration of Sir Colin Davis's relationship with the Concertgebouworkest.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2024
18th Oct 2024
Music from the worlds of film, TV and gaming from Ray Chen, Bach albums from Alexandre Tharaud & Víkingur Ólafsson, orchestral works by Grace Williams, and a tribute to Cornélie Falcon from Aleksandra Kurzak.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2024 Choices
14th Oct 2024
Katherine introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a recording you'll want to sit down and savour' from Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake on Chandos, featuring arrangements of works by Robert and Clara Schumann.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2024
11th Oct 2024
Schoenberg from Rafael Payare in Montreal, Elgar and Walton from Gautier Capuçon, the LSO and Antonio Pappano, zarzuela from Juan Diego Flórez, & Chopin, Ravel and Ligeti from Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (winner of this year's Leeds Piano Competition).
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2024
8th Oct 2024
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a 'magnificent addition' to the Elgar Violin Concerto discography courtesy of Vilde Frang, Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on Warner Classics.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th October 2024
4th Oct 2024
Brahms from Igor Levit, the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata from Marc-André Hamelin, an all-American programme from Daniil Trifonov, and a live recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah from the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano (with Gerald Finley in the title-role).
