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BBC Music Magazine - March 2022 Choices
17th Feb 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Jennifer Kloetzel and Robert Koenig's set of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano on Avie...
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New Release Round-Up - 11th February 2022
11th Feb 2022
Bruckner from François-Xavier Roth, Shostakovich from Gianandrea Noseda, consort music by John Jenkins from Phantasm, and Winterreise from Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu.
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Mitsuko Uchida's Diabelli Variations and other forthcoming highlights
10th Feb 2022
Other stand-out releases for March and April include Franco-Italian recitals from tenors Benjamin Bernheim and Pene Pati, Rachmaninov from Asmik Grigorian, and Sibelius from the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th February 2022
4th Feb 2022
Beethoven from Angela Hewitt, Bach from Leonidas Kavakos, Handel's Apollo e Dafne from Il Pomo d'Oro, and John Williams from the Berliner Philharmoniker (with the composer himself at the helm).
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2022
2nd Feb 2022
A powerful pasticcio requiem from La Tempête and Simon-Pierre Bestion, enchanting Handel from Sandrine Piau and Les Paladins, and a superb survey of George Walker's piano sonatas from Steven Beck.
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The Presto Chart - January 2022
1st Feb 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with Marc-André Hamelin's enchanting survey of keyboard works by CPE Bach on Hyperion in first place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2022
31st Jan 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Savall's 'very special' accounts of Beethoven's last four symphonies with Le Concert des Nations on Alia Vox.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th January 2022
28th Jan 2022
Haydn and Mozart from Basel, gangster tragedy in the South Polish Highlands, chamber music and songs by Martin Suckling, and arrangements of Vaughan Williams and Maconchy for piano duet.
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2022 Choices
26th Jan 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by French pianist Alexandre Kantorow's 'absorbing interpretation' of Brahms's Piano Sonata No. 3 on BIS...
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2022
25th Jan 2022
January heavyweights include anthologies celebrating the legacies of Clemens Krauss, Pierre Boulez and Fou Ts'ong, plus Haydn collections from Sir Neville Marriner and Giovanni Antonini.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st January 2022
21st Jan 2022
French song from Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles, the 2022 New Year's Day Concert from Vienna on CD, Schubert from Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton, and Bob Chilcott's Circlesong.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022: Shortlist
20th Jan 2022
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Bach Passions from Raphaël Pichon and John Eliot Gardiner
19th Jan 2022
Other upcoming highlights for the spring include a Strauss collection from Andris Nelsons, an autobiographical new recording from 97-year-old pianist Ruth Slenczynska, and Weinberg from Gidon Kremer.
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International Classical Music Awards 2022
18th Jan 2022
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Alina Ibragimova, Jakub Józef Orliński, Lars Vogt, and Frank Peter Zimmermann.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th January 2022
14th Jan 2022
Handel from Sandrine Piau, United Strings of Europe's second album Renewal, Morricone film-scores reworked for violin and orchestra, and the physical release of Florence Price's Symphonies No. 1 & 3 from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2022
10th Jan 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes's 'beautifully unaffected and honest' Grieg recital on Decca.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th January 2022
7th Jan 2022
Telemann from Antoine Tamestit, a transatlantic recital from Tom Poster and Elena Urioste, a tribute to a Czech horn virtuoso from Teunis van der Zwart and Alexander Melnikov, and Brahms from Michael Collins and Stephen Hough.
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The Presto Chart - 2021
4th Jan 2022
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Víkingur Ólafsson's recital of music by Mozart and his contemporaries leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2021
3rd Jan 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with An Elizabethan Christmas from Fretwork and mezzo Helen Charlston on Signum in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2022 Choices
30th Dec 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'joyful feast' of Korngold's chamber music from the Eusebius Quartet and pianist Alasdair Beatson on SOMM.
