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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2023
14th Feb 2023by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Toutes les nuits - a 'stunning, intelligently paced' album of nocturnal Renaissance songs from Romain Bockler, Bor Zuljan and Dulces Exuviae on Ricercar.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th February 2023
10th Feb 2023by Katherine Cooper
Beethoven piano concertos from Boris Giltburg, Bach arrangements from Holland Baroque, Bonds sacred works from The Dessoff Choirs & Malcolm J Merriweather and an avian selection from La Rêveuse.
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Grammy Winners 2023
6th Feb 2023by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces the winning classical albums from this year's ceremony, which took place last night in Los Angeles.
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Early Music Round-Up - February 2023
6th Feb 2023by David Smith
Majestic works for brass and choir from InAlto and Lambert Colson, innovative Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, rediscovered Rameau from Alexis Kossenko and friends, a bumper crop of anniversary recordings of Byrd and Weelkes, and more.
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Passages: German Ritual Music 1600-1800
Alice Foccroulle, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Alice Foccroulle (soloist), Griet De Geyter (soloist), Geoffroy Buffière, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Geoffroy Buffière (soloist), Alice Foccroulle, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson InAlto, Lambert Colson
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New Sony Classical titles on Presto CD
4th Feb 2023by Paul Thomas
Period instrument groups Tafelmusik & L'Archibudelli feature alongside venerable greats Bruno Walter & Isaac Stern in the latest additions to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd February 2023
3rd Feb 2023by Katherine Cooper
Clara & Robert Schumann's piano concertos from Beatrice Rana, Mompou from Stephen Hough, the first instalment of a Mozart symphonies cycle from Il Pomo d'Oro & Maxim Emelyanychev, and Czech harpsichord concertos from Mahan Esfahani.
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2023
1st Feb 2023by Katherine Cooper
A rip-roaring night in Paris with Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth, a superb recital for unaccompanied works for viola by female composers from Rosalind Ventris, and the world premiere recording of a likeable operatic rom-com by George Alexander Macfarren.
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The Presto Chart - January 2023
1st Feb 2023by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with András Schiff's all-Bach recital Clavichord on ECM in first place...
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Turandot from Antonio Pappano and other forthcoming highlights
31st Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Sondra Radvanovsky and Jonas Kaufmann head the cast in a new studio recording of Puccini's final opera, with other spring highlights including the debut recording of Djibouti-born guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, and a brief history of the French ténor de grâce from Cyrille Dubois.
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Puccini: Turandot
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2023 Choices
30th Jan 2023by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with a 'stunningly virtuosic' Stravinsky programme from the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos in pride of place...
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New Release Round-Up - 27th January 2023
27th Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Schubert and Beethoven from Mark Padmore & Mitsuko Uchida, Marais from Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexandre Tharaud, French ballet music from Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth, and Bruckner from Paavo Järvi & the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2023
25th Jan 2023by Chris O'Reilly
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: Shortlist
24th Jan 2023by Chris O'Reilly
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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New Release Round-Up - 20th January 2023
20th Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Joseph Jongen from Ivan Ilić, Mozart from Peter Donohoe, Mahler from Claudia Huckle and Nicky Spence, and veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi in concert.
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International Classical Music Awards 2023
19th Jan 2023by Chris O'Reilly
The ICMA results were revealed yesterday, with winners including Ermonela Jaho, Alessandro Marangoni, Mahan Esfahani, and Asmik Grigorian.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th January 2023
13th Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout, Beethoven from Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lully's Psyché from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, and an album commemorating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes from The King's Singers & Fretwork.
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Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Other stand-out releases for early spring include a second album of English music for strings from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Schumann & Brahms from Benjamin Grosvenor, and world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds's Credo & Simon Bore the Cross.
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New Presto CD titles from Sony Classical
9th Jan 2023by Paul Thomas
Legendary Sony artists Pablo Casals, Zubin Mehta and Leonard Bernstein feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD catalogue.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th January 2023
6th Jan 2023by Katherine Cooper
Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Janáček, Brahms & Bartók from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say, Malcolm Arnold from Michael Collins, and Reinecke from Simon Callaghan.