Classical Recommendations
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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.
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Satie & Cage from Bertrand Chamayou and other forthcoming highlights
29th Aug 2023
Stand-out releases for the autumn also include French repertoire from Steven Osborne, Alexandre Tharaud and Bruce Liu, Baroque albums from Miloš Karadaglić and Avi Avital, and the final instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th August 2023
25th Aug 2023
Nielsen concertos from Fabio Luisi, Bruckner's Eighth Symphony from Paavo Järvi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová from the Salzburg Festival, and an intriguing fusion of early music and cabaret-songs from Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Le Poème Harmonique.
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53 new titles added to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical
23rd Aug 2023
Musicals from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter & Stephen Sondheim and the music of J.S. Bach feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2023
22nd Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with 'an absolute belter' of a Tchaikovsky Five from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place as Recording of the Month...
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Introducing our Recollections project
21st Aug 2023
Presto Music is a company run by music-lovers, for music-lovers, so this is a call-out for your own personal stories - if you have an interesting tale behind a much-loved recording, we would love you to share it with us...
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New Release Round-Up - 18th August 2023
18th Aug 2023
The debut solo recording of Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone, a tribute to Tebaldi from American soprano Melody Moore, Rubinstein piano concertos from Anna Shelest & Neeme Järvi, and Liszt's Faust Symphony from Kirill Karabits in Weimar.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2023 Choices
17th Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'stunningly recorded' account of Hans Sørensen’s suite of excerpts from Bernard Herrmann's only opera Wuthering Heights (starring Keri Fuge as Cathy and Roderick Williams as Heathcliff).
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New Release Round-Up - 11th August 2023
11th Aug 2023
Shostakovich and Maneein concertos from Rachel Barton Pine, Mozart from Federico Colli, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout and Laura van der Heijden, late Haydn from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and orchestral songs by Peter Warlock.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2023
8th Aug 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of the Ysaÿe Sonatas that 'will be difficult to equal, let alone surpass' from Hilary Hahn on Deutsche Grammophon...
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New Release Round-Up - 4th August 2023
4th Aug 2023
A celebration of the Bach dynasty from oboist Albrecht Mayer, Tan Dun's Buddha Passion, Tchaikovsky & Schulhoff from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, and music for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from ORA & Suzi Digby.
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Oklahoma! from John Wilson and other forthcoming highlights
2nd Aug 2023
Sierra Boggess and Nathaniel Hackmann head the cast on Wilson's complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1943 musical, with other early autumn highlights including albums from Isabelle Faust, Anna Lapwood and Jakub Józef Orliński.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2023
1st Aug 2023
Matchless Mahler from Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton, a starkly beautiful album of new works by Stuart MacRae from mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean & Sequoia, and a stylish Spanish recital from violinist Francesco Fullana.
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The Presto Chart - July 2023
1st Aug 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Hilary Hahn's set of the Ysaÿe sonatas for solo violin on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2023 Choices
1st Aug 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Chineke!'s 'high-octane' recording of Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto (with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason as soloist).
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New Release Round-Up - 28th July 2023
28th Jul 2023
Romantic horn concertos from Martin Owen (conducted by John Wilson), Mahler song-cycles from Dame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton, Book Two of The Well-Tempered Clavier from Ewa Pobłocka, and lute-songs old and new from Carolyn Sampson & Matthew Wadsworth.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2023
26th Jul 2023
This month's heavyweights include Ferenc Fricsay's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, a Karel Ančerl Edition on Eloquence, a 75th birthday retrospective on Kathleen Battle, and a celebration of Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chávez.
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Early Music Round-Up - Summer 2023
24th Jul 2023
Monumental Obrecht from Cappella Pratensis, Philips and Dering from the Choir of Gonville & Caius (gilded by the addition of In Echo's period instruments), a travelling composer's biography-in-music from La Serenissima, a thrilling Venetian 'battle of the bows' from Chouchane Siranossian and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, and more.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2023
21st Jul 2023
Mendelssohn from Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Bach from Bojan Čičić, a Spanish recital from violinist Francisco Fullana, and fourteen-year-old treble Malakai Bayoh's debut on Decca.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2023 Choices
18th Jul 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'truly exceptional' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 from Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on BIS.
