Classical Recommendations
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2021
13th Sep 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Igor Levit's 'magisterial' accounts of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues and Ronald Stevenson's On DSCH coming out on top as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th September 2021
10th Sep 2021
Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson from Igor Levit, Rachmaninov from Robin Ticciati, Arvo Pärt from Renaud Capuçon in Lausanne, and Bartók, Mussorgsky and Brahms from Magdalena Kožená.
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24 New Decca titles now on Presto CD
8th Sep 2021
The centuries spanning selection includes music by Victoria, Mozart & Shostakovich, and artists including Albrecht Mayer & Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2021 Choices
7th Sep 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Sean Shibe's Camino (our best-selling title for August) as Recording of the Month.
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The Presto Chart - August 2021
6th Sep 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with guitarist Sean Shibe's Franco-Spanish recital Camino on Pentatone in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd September 2021
3rd Sep 2021
Mahler, Ives and Grime from Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton, British oboe quintets from Nicholas Daniel, organist Anna Lapwood's first solo recording, and Strauss from François-Xavier Roth in Köln.
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Gramophone Awards 2021 - The Shortlist
1st Sep 2021
This year's six contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed today.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2021
31st Aug 2021
A vividly-painted gallery of French Classical heroines from Véronique Gens, Bull and Byrd in glorious technicolour from Kit Armstrong, and a mesmerising recital of songs by Irish composer Ina Boyle.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th August 2021
27th Aug 2021
Schubert from René Jacobs, Brahms from Alexander Melnikov, French baroque heroines from Véronique Gens, and seventeenth-century laments from Iestyn Davies and Fretwork.
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New Presto CD titles from the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue
24th Aug 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Herbert von Karajan, Tamás Vásáry, Martha Argerich & Mstislav Rostropovich.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th August 2021
20th Aug 2021
Norwegian opera overtures from Oslo, Haydn's L'isola disabitata from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Vivaldi's Four Seasons from thirteen-year-old violinist Christian Li, and Telemann cantatas for Hanoverian Kings.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2021
18th Aug 2021
Marian Anderson's complete recordings for RCA Victor, a centenary celebration of Giuseppe Di Stefano, and a fiftieth-birthday collection from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2021
16th Aug 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Korean violinist Sueye Park's 'Journey Through A Century' in pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th August 2021
13th Aug 2021
Chopin from Jan Lisiecki, Strauss from Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, works for violin and piano by Louise Farrenc, and Francis Pott's mammoth 'Passion Symphony' Christus.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2021 Choices
9th Aug 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by 'near-definitive' accounts of the Beethoven Piano Concertos from Krystian Zimerman, Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th August 2021
6th Aug 2021
A French-language Carnaval des animaux from Lille, British music from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Wagner, Mahler and Berg from Anja Harteros, and Chopin and more from Alice Sara Ott.
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Liszt from Jonas Kaufmann and other forthcoming vocal highlights
4th Aug 2021
Autumn also brings an intriguing debut album from Italian-Canadian mezzo Emily D'Angelo, plus new recordings from Marianne Crebassa, Philippe Jaroussky, Ian Bostridge, and Jakub Józef Orliński.
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The Presto Chart - July 2021
2nd Aug 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Krystian Zimerman's complete Beethoven piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2021
1st Aug 2021
An exhilarating debut recording from the C/O Chamber Orchestra in Ibert, Bartók and more, a loveable recital of love-song transcriptions from Angela Hewitt, and a superbly-paced Fidelio from Marek Janowski.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th July 2021
30th Jul 2021
A chaconne-themed solo recital from Ilya Gringolts, Busoni from Peter Donohoe, Bruckner from Juanjo Mena, and an anthology of Welsh song from Andrew Matthews-Owen and friends.
