Classical Recommendations
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2020
16th Sep 2020
The complete works of Ravel on Warner Classics, a fortieth birthday collection from Ricercar, and anthologies celebrating Zubin Mehta, Maria João Pires and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
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Ravel: The Complete Works
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Anne Queffélec (piano), Samson François (piano), Claire-Marie Le Guay (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Ingryd Thorson, Julian Thurber, Martha Argerich (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Olivier Chauzu, Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Michel Béroff (piano), Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Alessandro Stella (piano), Alexandre Rabinovitch, Dag Achatz (piano), Yukie Nagai (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Franck Braley (piano), Quatuor Ebène (string quartet), Annie Challan (harp), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Christian Ferras (violin), Pierre Barbizet, Jacques Rouvier (piano), Vadim Repin (violin), Basler Sinfonie Orchester, Mady Mesplé (soprano), José van Dam (baritone, bass-baritone), Jean-Christophe Benoit (baritone), Jessye Norman (soprano), Elly Ameling (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Gérard Souzay (baritone), Valérie Millot, Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne, Jacques Grimbert, Ensemble vocal Philippe Caillard, Philippe Caillard, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, André Cluytens, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Charles Munch, Alexander Vedernikov, Emmanuel Krivine, Michel Plasson, Lorin Maazel, Armin Jordan, Mikko Franck
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2020
15th Sep 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by an 'exciting, committed, necessary and brilliantly recorded' Peter Grimes starring Stuart Skelton on Chandos.
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Britten: Peter Grimes
Stuart Skelton (Grimes), Erin Wall (Ellen), Roderick Williams (Balstrode), Susan Bickley (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), James Gilchrist (Horace Adams), Marcus Farnsworth (Ned Keene) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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Gramophone Awards 2020 - the top three in each category
14th Sep 2020
The final contenders in each of the ten genres were revealed on Friday…
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New Release Round-Up - 11th September 2020
11th Sep 2020
Respighi from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, a lockdown-inspired recital from Igor Levit, Franz Schmidt’s complete symphonies from Paavo Järvi, and Vivaldi with a twist from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Il Giardino Armonico.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2020 Choices
8th Sep 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sergei Babayan's 'utterly compelling' Rachmaninov recital on Deutsche Grammophon as Recording of the Month.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2020
7th Sep 2020
Chris rounds up the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards, which will be presented at the Konzerthaus Berlin next month.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th September 2020
4th Sep 2020
Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner from Bergen, lockdown Lieder from Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Mahler from Iván Fischer, and a boxed set of Ravel's complete works on Warner Classics.
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Britten: Peter Grimes
Stuart Skelton (Grimes), Erin Wall (Ellen), Roderick Williams (Balstrode), Susan Bickley (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), James Gilchrist (Horace Adams), Marcus Farnsworth (Ned Keene) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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The Presto Chart - August 2020
3rd Sep 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Nicola Benedetti's Elgar Violin Concerto with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place...
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Gramophone Awards 2020 - The Shortlist
2nd Sep 2020
This year's six contenders in each of the ten categories were revealed yesterday.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2020
31st Aug 2020
Gothic operas from Missy Mazzoli and Saint-Saëns, Fazil Say's complete works for violin, and a startlingly atmospheric song-cycle for mezzo and orchestra by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2020
28th Aug 2020
Mahler from Vladimir Jurowski, Shostakovich from Alban Gerhardt, Mozart from Francesco Piemontesi and Andrew Manze, and Melly Still's Glyndebourne production of Rusalka on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2020
25th Aug 2020
Beethoven from the Smetana Quartet, a 75th birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and a DVD collection celebrating the centenary of the Salzburg Festival.
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26 new Sony titles added to Presto CD
24th Aug 2020
Including Rachmaninov from Ruth Laredo, Glenn Gould live in Leningrad, Nielsen from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Richard Strauss from Zubin Mehta.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2020
21st Aug 2020
Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout & Pablo Heras-Casado, Schumann from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, vintage Elgar from America, and a French recital from oboist François Leleux.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2020
18th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Vladimir Jurowski's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Sarah Connolly, Robert Dean Smith and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2020
14th Aug 2020
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini on DVD from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel concerti grossi from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, early Beethoven from Jos van Immerseel, and Bernard Haitink’s farewell to Salzburg.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2020 Choices
11th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Cleveland Orchestra’s eclectic celebration of their centenary (featuring two world premieres commissioned for the occasion) as Recording of the Month.
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New Sony titles added to Presto CD
10th Aug 2020
Including Mahler from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bach from Charles Rosen, and several recordings from Anner Bylsma and Tafelmusik.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th August 2020
7th Aug 2020
Dvořák from Kian Soltani and Daniel Barenboim, Rachmaninov from Sergei Babayan, the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth's choral symphony The Prison, and a new large-scale recording project from Max Richter.
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The Presto Chart - July 2020
5th Aug 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Paul Lewis's Beethoven Bagatelles on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
