Classical Recommendations
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2022
30th Jul 2022
World premiere recordings of works by Jörg Widmann, Lennox Berkeley and John Frederick Lampe, plus an outstanding Respighi recital from Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th July 2022
29th Jul 2022
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's Houses of the Wind.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2022
27th Jul 2022
July heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete solo recordings on Decca, Reinhard Goebel's complete recordings on Archiv Produktion, a celebration of Eugene Ormandy's five-year stint in Minneapolis, and the collected works of John Adams on Nonesuch.
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New Presto CDs from Deutsche Grammophon
26th Jul 2022
Gidon Kremer playing Mozart and Karl Böhm and Rafael Kubelik conducting Wagner are amongst the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd July 2022
22nd Jul 2022
Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.
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A Concert for Ukraine
Vladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
20th Jul 2022
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th July 2022
15th Jul 2022
Chopin from Louis Lortie, Beethoven from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vladimir Jurowski, and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley from The Brook Street Band and John Andrews.
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New additions to our Presto CD range from Decca
13th Jul 2022
The latest Presto CDs from the Decca catalogue feature the conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022
12th Jul 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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New Release Round-Up - 8th July 2022
8th Jul 2022
This year's Sommernachtskonzert from Vienna, late Schubert from the Gewandhausorchester and Herbert Blomstedt, a third helping of Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro, and a collection of twentieth-century and contemporary choral works from Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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Barber: The Complete Songs
Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet
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The Presto Chart - June 2022
4th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022
1st Jul 2022
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2022
30th Jun 2022
A tour de force of a recital from contemporary music diva and composer Héloïse Werner (plus a rich and varied roster of instrumental soloists), a revelatory Dichterliebe from Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov, and a superb collection of the young Ravel's ambitious submissions for the Prix de Rome...
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New Release Round-Up - 24th June 2022
24th Jun 2022
Massenet orchestral songs with soloists including Véronique Gens and Étienne Dupuis, Vivaldi from Les Arts Florissants, music by three Latvian composers from Kremerata Baltica, and Bach from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Alon Sariel.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2022 Choices
23rd Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the 'greatest recording' of Handel's 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione from Harry Bicket and The English Concert on Linn.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2022
21st Jun 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th June 2022
17th Jun 2022
A musical journey 'in the footsteps of Rumi', Chopin & Rachmaninoff from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, Mozart & Voříšek from Herbert Blomstedt, and Strauss from Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.
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Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
16th Jun 2022
The Chilean-American tenor's album of French and Italian opera arias will be released in August, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Mahler from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022
15th Jun 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
