Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 10th June 2022
10th Jun 2022
Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give world premieres of music by their compatriots, plus David Lang's the writings, Grieg from Peter Donohoe, and John Ireland from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2022 Choices
8th Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'mesmerising' debut recording of Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland from the Castalian String Quartet on Delphian.
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New Presto CD titles from the Decca & DG catalogues
6th Jun 2022
Performances from Andras Schiff and music of the First Viennese School feature in the latest additions to the Presto CD range.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd June 2022
3rd Jun 2022
Bolcom rags from Marc-André Hamelin, Hahn from Pavel Kolesnikov, Schumann from Pablo Heras-Casado, and the world premiere recording of Handel's pasticcio Caio Fabriccio from London Early Opera.
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Presto Editor's Choices - May 2022
2nd Jun 2022
Starkly beautiful Purcell, Strozzi, Eccles and Park from Helen Charlston and Toby Carr, plus a vivid, vulnerable Violetta from Lisette Oropesa on Pentatone's new Traviata, and punch-packing Rachmaninov from Steven Osborne on Hyperion.
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The Presto Chart - May 2022
1st Jun 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Brahms quintets from the Pavel Haas Quartet and guests Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl on Supraphon in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 27th May 2022
27th May 2022
Rameau from György Vashegyi, Lisette Oropesa in La traviata, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and a box-set of the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies with Richard Hickox & Sir Andrew Davis.
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2022
24th May 2022
May heavyweights include Wilhelm Kempff's collected Decca and Polydor recordings, the Richard Hickox/Andrew Davis cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's complete Philips Recordings, and a fortieth-birthday anthology from Capriccio.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th May 2022
20th May 2022
Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart from Riccardo Chailly, Schubert's 'Fair Maid of the Mill' from Nicky Spence & Christopher Glynn, a Parisian recital from flautist Ana de la Vega, and John Williams's Cello Concerto from Yo-Yo Ma (with the composer conducting).
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2022
18th May 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'lively, supple' account of Handel's early oratorio La Resurrezione on Linn from Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th May 2022
13th May 2022
Brahms from Herbert Blomstedt, Bach from René Jacobs, Mozart from Federico Colli, and Lupo from Fretwork.
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2022 Choices
10th May 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's 'electrifying and revelatory' Sibelius cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th May 2022
6th May 2022
Strauss from Andris Nelsons, Vivaldi & Bach from Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, Rachmaninov from Steven Osborne, and Schoenberg from the Gringolts Quartet.
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Presto Editor's Choices - April 2022
3rd May 2022
South African soprano Golda Schultz emerges as a compelling story-teller on her debut recording of songs by five female composers, whilst Véronique Gens and Sandrine Piau pay vivid tribute to two French baroque divas of an earlier generation.
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The Presto Chart - April 2022
2nd May 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Raphaël Pichon's recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Pygmalion on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2022
30th Apr 2022
This month's heavyweights include extensive anthologies celebrating Dimitri Mitropoulos and Kurt Masur, 150th birthday-editions of Vaughan Williams and Scriabin, and a set of recordings from Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th April 2022
29th Apr 2022
Dora Pejačević from Peter Donohoe and Sakari Oramo, eighteenth-century operatic heroines from Patricia Petibon, Heinz Holliger's 'dream-opera' Lunea, and a Dante-inspired recital from Mirco Palazzi and Marco Scolastra.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022: The Winners!
28th Apr 2022
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2022
26th Apr 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'breathtakingly extravagant display of intellect and imagination' from Mitsuko Uchida in Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd April 2022
22nd Apr 2022
Rossini from Florian Sempey, Rameau from Marc Minkowski, vintage Vaughan Williams from Sir Adrian Boult, and Schubert from Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson.
