Classical Recommendations
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2021
28th Jul 2021
Bernard Herrmann conducting his own film-scores, a multi-conductor Bruckner cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Friedrich Gulda's complete recordings on Decca, and an anthology of live recordings from the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd July 2021
23rd Jul 2021
Lully from Les Talens Lyriques, Liszt from Olivier Latry, an avian song-recital from Roderick Williams and Andrew West, and new music for saxophone and piano by Thai and Australian composers.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2021 Choices
21st Jul 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with French pianist Lise de la Salle's 'invitation to the dance' on Naive as Recording of the Month.
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Mozart from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming instrumental highlights
20th Jul 2021
Late summer and early autumn also bring Shostakovich and Stevenson from Igor Levit, Haydn from Paul Lewis, and a Franco-Spanish album from Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th July 2021
16th Jul 2021
Fidelio from Marek Janowski (with Lise Davidsen in the title-role), Beethoven from the Suk Trio, and baroque violin recitals from Nicola Benedetti and Théotime Langlois de Swarte.
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2021
14th Jul 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Mahler's Seventh Symphony from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester first among equals.
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New Presto CD titles from the Decca catalogue
12th Jul 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, and Thomas Trotter.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th July 2021
9th Jul 2021
Beethoven concertos from Krystian Zimerman, Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong, and highlights from Porgy & Bess from Marin Alsop, with Angel Blue and Lester Lynch in the title-roles.
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The Presto Chart - June 2021
3rd Jul 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with András Schiff's Brahms Piano Concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on ECM in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd July 2021
2nd Jul 2021
Love songs from Angela Hewitt, Beethoven's Hammerklavier and Eroica Variations from Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Satie from Noriko Ogawa, and Schnittke and Pärt from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2021
30th Jun 2021
A hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking debut from US violinist Randall Goosby, an illuminating musical tour of Vienna with pianist Alasdair Beatson, and a superb introduction to the orchestral music of Vítězslava Kaprálová.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th June 2021
25th Jun 2021
Debut recordings from violinist Randall Goosby and pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau, a Viennese-themed recital from Alasdair Beatson, and a collection of orchestral works by Vítězslava Kaprálová.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2021
23rd Jun 2021
Eightieth-birthday celebrations of Martha Argerich and Jaime Laredo, an orchestral anthology marking the 150th anniversary of Zemlinsky's birth, and the Juilliard Quartet's collected early recordings on Columbia.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2021 Choices
22nd Jun 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Harry Bicket's 'definitive' Rodelinda on Linn (starring Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies) as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th June 2021
18th Jun 2021
Beethoven from the Ehnes Quartet, a theatrical debut from violinist Bomsori Kim, André Messager's Passionnément (starring Véronique Gens), and intimations of immortality from Icelandic composer Viktor Orri Árnason.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2021
15th Jun 2021
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Sir András Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment supplying 'great revelations' in Brahms.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th June 2021
11th Jun 2021
Brahms from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Kodály and Dvořák from Alexander Lonquich and friends, Tchaikovsky from Vadym Kholodenko, and Bach and Beethoven from Andrew Von Oeyen.
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Lise Davidsen in Fidelio and other forthcoming highlights
9th Jun 2021
The Norwegian soprano stars opposite Christian Elsner on Marek Janowski's studio recording of Beethoven's opera, plus Korngold's Die tote Stadt with Kaufmann and Petersen from Munich, and an all-American album from Isata Kanneh-Mason.
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
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31 New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
8th Jun 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Arthur Fiedler, Mstislav Rostropovich & Ravi Shankar.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th June 2021
4th Jun 2021
Debussy from Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and friends/family, Nico Muhly's new violin concerto from Pekka Kuusisto, an invitation to the dance from Lise de la Salle, and Lennox Berkeley's opera Nelson from the BBC archives.
