Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 13th October 2023
13th Oct 2023
Ravel and Falla from Alexandre Tharaud, the Orchestre National de France & Louis Langrée, Lully's Thésée from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, French love-songs from Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford, and the world premiere recording of Emily Howard's The Anvil.
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A Flashback and a Hope, through Venezuelan Guitar
11th Oct 2023
In the second instalment of our Recollections series, Orlando Guedez Calderin (President of the International Institute of Business Analysis in Colombia) recounts how a 1957 recording of Antonio Lauro's Guitar Concerto No. 1 stirs a host of 'memories and hopes' about his homeland of Venezuela.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2023
10th Oct 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, headed by a 'lived-in and confident' account of the Monteverdi Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon on Harmonia Mundi.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th October 2023
6th Oct 2023
A tribute to the late Lars Vogt from his friends Christian & Tanja Tetzlaff, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Paavo Järvi, Baroque rarities from Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d'Oro, Bach's French Suites from Mahan Esfahani, and a recital of twentieth-century music from Johan Dalene and Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2023
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the Recording of the Year, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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The Presto Chart - September 2023
2nd Oct 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with an 'impeccably authentic' account of Monteverdi's Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2023
1st Oct 2023
Jaw-dropping pyrotechnics from Isabelle Faust in Locatelli, a red-blooded Dido & Aeneas from La Nuova Musica, and an Offenbach operetta fizzing with all the fun of the fair from Paul Daniel and a sparky cast headed by Anne-Catherine Gillet and Virginie Verrez.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th September 2023
29th Sep 2023
Puccini from Jonathan Tetelman, French song-cycles from Marie-Nicole Lemieux, George Walker's complete sinfonias from the National Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda, and a nocturnal organ recital from Anna Lapwood.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2023
27th Sep 2023
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
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A Life With Shostakovich
26th Sep 2023
In the first instalment of our Recollections series, Hoi F. Cheu PhD (Director of the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity at Laurentian University and Director of Doran Planetarium) recounts how a teenage encounter with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony shaped his extraordinary dual career - and several close relationships...
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd September 2023
22nd Sep 2023
Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde from Opera Rara, Wagner's Siegfried from Sir Simon Rattle in Munich, a tribute to Agustín Barrios from guitarist Thibaut Garcia, and works inspired by the Amazon from Philharmonia Zurich & Simone Menezes.
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Verismo from Domingo Hindoyan and other forthcoming highlights
19th Sep 2023
The Venezuelan conductor and his Liverpool orchestra thrill in preludes & intermezzi by Mascagni, Cilea, Wolf-Ferrari et al, with other stand-outs for late autumn including Saint-Saëns from Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth and a Norwegian Christmas album from Lise Davidsen.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2023
18th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by the world premiere recording of Parry's Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' from the London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus and William Vann on Chandos.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th September 2023
15th Sep 2023
A trip to the movies with Jonas Kaufmann, an album of Stephen Hough's choral music, Florence Price and William Dawson from Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Philadelphia, and Bartók's piano concertos from Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices
12th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place, 'investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour' in their Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff album...
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - Finalists Revealed
8th Sep 2023
The final contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed this morning, with Rachel Podger, Mahan Esfahani, Marc-André Hamelin and Quatuor Ebène among those in the running…
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New Release Round-Up - 8th September 2023
8th Sep 2023
Virtuosic Locatelli concertos from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico, regal Haydn symphonies from the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini, finely-shaded Mahler from Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s complex opera blending Gothic horror and Greek tragedy.
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The Presto Chart - August 2023
4th Sep 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st September 2023
1st Sep 2023
A Shakespeare Songbook from Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, Mozart from the late Lars Vogt in Paris, and Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2023
31st Aug 2023
Early music meets French cabaret in an intriguing collaboration between Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Le Poème Harmonique, Liam Bonthrone and Benjamin Mead explore salon-culture in Paris and New York, and Antoni Wit champions the music of his compatriot Zygmunt Noskowski.
