Classical Recommendations
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Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata from Marc-André Hamelin and other forthcoming highlights
20th Aug 2024
The Canadian pianist tackles one of the most daunting peaks of the keyboard repertoire, with other stand-outs for October including the first two volumes of Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project and the Elgar & Walton cello concertos from Gautier Capuçon, the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2024
19th Aug 2024
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'polished but never slick' Kurt Weill triptych from Konzerthausorchester Berlin and its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Joana Mallwitz.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2024
16th Aug 2024
Brett Dean's Rooms of Elsinore, music for oboe and cor anglais by Ruth Gipps, Edvard Grieg and Clara Schumann's piano concertos from Alexandra Dariescu, and Verdi's Macbeth from last year's Salzburg Festival (starring Asmik Grigorian, Vladislav Sulimsky and Jonathan Tetelman).
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2024 Choices
12th Aug 2024
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a deeply felt celebration of the power of music' from Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2024
9th Aug 2024
Shostakovich from the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä, Karl Jenkins's new saxophone concerto for Jess Gillam, a third helping of Beethoven from the Sitkovetsky Trio, and Bliss from the Black Dyke Band and John Wilson.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel from John Wilson and other forthcoming highlights
8th Aug 2024
Nathaniel Hackmann and Mikaela Bennett lead the cast on Wilson's recording of the 1945 musical, with other stand-outs for the autumn including Brahms from Igor Levit, a Mozart Requiem with a twist from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, and a contemplative debut recording from baritone Huw Montague Rendall.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel
Nathaniel Hackmann (Billy Bigelow), Mikaela Bennett (Julie Jordan), Sierra Boggess (Carrie Pipperidge), Julian Ovenden (Enoch Snow), Francesca Chiejina (Nettie Fowler), David Seadon-Young (Jigger Craigin) Sinfonia of London, ‘Carousel’ Ensemble, John Wilson
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd August 2024
2nd Aug 2024
Roberto Gerhard's ballet Don Quixote from Juanjo Mena & the BBC Philharmonic, Great American Songbook classics from Susan Bullock & Richard Sisson, a second helping of Vivaldi double concertos from La Serenissima, and Ailbhe McDonagh's The Irish Seasons.
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The Presto Chart - July 2024
1st Aug 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Mishka Rushdie Momen's debut album on Hyperion (featuring keyboard music by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull and Sweelinck) in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2024
31st Jul 2024
This month's heavyweights include Joan Sutherland's recital and oratorio recordings for Decca, a centenary celebration of Tatiana Nikolayeva, Smetana's complete operas on Supraphon, and Hansjörg Albrecht's survey of Bruckner's symphonies in transcriptions for organ.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th July 2024
26th Jul 2024
A collection of chamber works by the Australian-born composer Jane Stanley, Paganini and The Butterfly Lovers Concerto from Chloe Chua, Smetana's complete operas on Supraphon, and (on DVD/Blu-ray) Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Christian Thielemann and Dmitri Tcherniakov in Berlin.
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New Presto CD titles from Sony
22nd Jul 2024
We are pleased to add 55 titles to our Presto CD catalogue of Sony recordings, many of which have been unavailable on CD (and in some cases any format) for some time.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2024
19th Jul 2024
Bruckner and Bates from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, a fourth volume of Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, a second helping of African Pianism from Rebeca Omordia, and a recital of Schumann, Ravel & Prokofiev from Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist George Li.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2024
17th Jul 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an 'enchanting, engrossing and impeccably recorded' recital of Lieder by Schubert and Loewe from Konstantin Krimmel & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th July 2024
12th Jul 2024
Schumann and Loewe from Konstantin Krimmel & Ammiel Bushakevitz, Schoenberg and Fauré from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi, Brahms's complete symphonies from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Wiener Philharmoniker's recent Sommernachtskonzert from Schönbrunn Palace.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2024 Choices
9th Jul 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'passionate, committed' accounts of Brahms's String Quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and violist Lilli Maijala on BIS.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2024
5th Jul 2024
An Irish album from Daniel Hope & friends, Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček from Prague, Stanford's Te Deum & Elegiac Ode from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and folk-inspired works by Suk, Smetana, Coleridge-Taylor & Frank Martin from the Neave Trio.
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The Presto Chart - June 2024
2nd Jul 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Sibelius and Prokofiev violin concertos from Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä in Oslo in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2024
30th Jun 2024
June heavyweights include a celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 80, Osmo Vänskä's complete set of Mahler symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra, and anthologies dedicated to Josef Krips and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Kiri Te Kanawa: A Celebration
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Lynn Harrell (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano), José Carreras (tenor), Wiener Kammerorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music,Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, György Fischer, Colin Davis, Jeffrey Tate, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Georg Solti, Seji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Bernstein
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2024
28th Jun 2024
Gaspard Le Roux from William Christie & Justin Taylor, Tudor keyboard music from Mishka Rushdie Momen, French opera overtures from the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi, and Wagner's Parsifal from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival (conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, with Andreas Schager in the title-role).
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Wagner: Parsifal
Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Elīna Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Derek Welton (Amfortas), Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor), Tobias Kehrer (Titurel) Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Opus Klassik Awards 2024
25th Jun 2024
Revealed in advance of October's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust, Reginald Mobley and Klaus Mäkelä.
