Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2020
31st Jul 2020
Vaughan Williams and Finzi from Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Satie from Noriko Ogawa, and two new works for baroque orchestra and voices by Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning American composer Caroline Shaw.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2020
30th Jul 2020
A terrific debut solo recording featuring Britten and Liszt confirms the young British tenor Stuart Jackson as a major talent, whilst Chandos release two twentieth-century masterpieces centring on incarceration.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2020
29th Jul 2020
Centenary celebrations of Isaac Stern and the Salzburg Festival, a seventy-fifth birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and Delitiae Musicae's complete Monteverdi madrigals on Naxos.
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Presto CD additions on DG, Decca and DG Archiv
27th Jul 2020
Including Beethoven from Krystian Zimerman, Bernstein conducting Bernstein, Bach from Alexis Weissenberg, and the complete works of Varèse.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th July 2020
24th Jul 2020
Elgar from Elīna Garanča and Daniel Barenboim, Telemann from Barthold Kuijken, an arresting debut recording from The Hermes Experiment, and three neglected British clarinet concertos from Robert Plane.
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Ermonela Jaho's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
22nd Jul 2020
The Albanian soprano celebrates the legacy of Rosina Storchio on Opera Rara, plus new albums from Diana Damrau, Alexandre Kantorow, Jonas Kaufmann and others.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2020
21st Jul 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a ‘formidable’ account of Luigi Dallapiccola’s one-act opera Il Prigioniero from Gianandrea Noseda on Chandos.
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Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero
Anna Maria Chiuri (La Madre), Michael Nagy (Il Prigioniero), Stephan Rugamer (Il Carceriere/Il Grande Inquisitore), Adam Riis (Primo Sacerdote), Steffen Bruun (Secondo Sacerdote), Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
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New Release Round-Up 17th July 2020
17th Jul 2020
Nielsen from Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony, Beethoven from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, two works for voice and orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas, and a Domingo fiftieth anniversary gala from Verona on DVD and Blu-ray.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2020 Choices
15th Jul 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's survey of piano works by Beethoven's contemporaries Hummel, Dussek, Clementi and Wölfl as Recording of the Month.
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New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
11th Jul 2020
Including recordings from Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Emil Gilels and Herbert von Karajan.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th July 2020
10th Jul 2020
Elgar from Vasily Petrenko and Kathryn Rudge, Beethoven from James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong, and Mozart with a Cuban accent from horn-player Sarah Willis and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up 3rd July 2020
3rd Jul 2020
Bohemian Tales from Augustin Hadelich, Mahler 7 from Osmo Vänskä, Schubert from Kevin John Edusei, and Debussy from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé.
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The Presto Chart - June 2020
2nd Jul 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Alina Ibragimova's Shostakovich concertos with Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov' on Hyperion in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2020
1st Jul 2020
Thomas Adès's treatment of the Creation myth rivals Haydn's for inventiveness, whilst Arabella Steinbacher smoulders in Piazzolla, and Antonio Pappano whips up a storm in a new studio recording of Verdi's Otello.
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Digital New Release Round-Up - 29th June 2020
29th Jun 2020
Handel's Semele from Sir John Eliot Gardiner (with Louise Alder in the title-role), Bach from Anna Prohaska and Lautten Compagney, Gershwin from Wayne Marshall, and a Pythagoras-inspired programme from Aurora Orchestra.
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Handel: Semele
Louise Alder (Semele), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter), Lucile Richardot (Juno/Ino), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas), Gianluca Buratto (Somnus/Cadmus), Emily Owen (Iris), Angela Hicks (Cupid), Peter Davoren (Apollo) English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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New Release Round-Up - 26th June 2020
26th Jun 2020
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from Pablo Heras-Casado, Zemlinsky from Marc Albrecht, William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in its 1952 revision, and the world premiere recording of Vinci’s Gismondo Re di Polonia from Parnassus Arts.
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Das Lied von der Erde from Iván Fischer and other forthcoming highlights
23rd Jun 2020
A valedictory coda to the Budapest Festival Orchestra's superb Mahler series, plus Elgar from Daniel Barenboim and Elīna Garanča, Liszt & Thalberg from Marc-André Hamelin, and Barrie Kosky's Salzburg staging of Orphée aux Enfers on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th June 2020
19th Jun 2020
Vivaldi and Piazzolla from Arabella Steinbacher, Thomas Adès from Kirill Gerstein (and the composer himself), two concertos from Christopher Gunning, and an early Korngold opera's world premiere video recording from Turin.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2020
17th Jun 2020
Pick of this month’s heavyweights is Warner Classics’s monumental tribute to Sir John Barbirolli, released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2020
15th Jun 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a centenary celebration of the Cleveland Orchestra under their Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, which features two new commissions as well as music by Beethoven, Strauss, Prokofiev and Varèse.
