Classical Recommendations
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Igor Levit's complete Beethoven sonatas and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jul 2019
The Russian-German pianist's early commemoration of next year's 250th anniversary will be released on Sony in September, plus new recordings from Daniil Trifonov, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès, and Ildar Abdrazakov.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2019 Choices
10th Jul 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Christophe Rousset, Michael Fabiano, Sandrine Piau and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019
New releases from Delphine Galou, Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Maxim Vengerov, plus landmark accounts of Delius’s Sea Drift and Weber’s Euryanthe from the archives.
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The Presto Chart - June 2019
2nd Jul 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Lise Davidsen's debut album of Wagner and Strauss on Decca in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2019
1st Jul 2019
Intensely dramatic Janáček from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends, an operatic oratorio on The Fall of Man by Josef Mysliveček, and an intriguing debut album of chamber works from octogenarian composer Erika Fox.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2019
19th Jun 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances's vivid accounts of Charpentier's Bible scenes.
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Cecilia Bartoli in L'Italiana in Algeri and other forthcoming highlights
18th Jun 2019
The Roman mezzo returns to her Rossinian roots in her role-debut as the irrepressible ‘Italian Girl’ abroad Isabella in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s contemporary staging, filmed at Salzburg last year.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th June 2019
14th Jun 2019
New recordings from Renée Fleming, Herbert Blomstedt, Matthew Barley and Pieter Wispelwey, plus DVDs/Blu-rays of two operatic rarities: Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane and Mercadante’s Didone abbandonata.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2019
12th Jun 2019
A celebration of Brigitte Fassbaender at 80, Karajan’s Bruckner and Tchaikovsky re-mastered, Myaskovsky’s complete string quartets, and DVD collections from Glyndebourne and the Wiener Staatsoper.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2019 Choices
11th Jun 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Rachel Podger, András Schiff, Julian Prégardien, and Markus Maskuniitty.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th June 2019
7th Jun 2019
New recordings from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, Richard and Mika Stoltzman, Swedish chamber ensemble O/Modərnt, and the final instalment of the Hallé’s Ring Cycle under Sir Mark Elder, with Simon O’Neill as Siegfried.
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The Presto Chart - May 2019
3rd Jun 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's recording of Weinberg with Kremerata Baltica and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - May 2019
1st Jun 2019
An almost indecently seductive French song programme from Sandrine Piau, a thought-provoking debut album from young British pianist Martin James Bartlett, and a rare outing for Granados’s one-act opera Goyescas, which crackles with Mediterranean heat.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st May 2019
31st May 2019
New recordings from Sandrine Piau, Angela Hewitt, Francesco Piemontesi, Trio Zimmermann, and Sakari Oramo, plus the world premiere DVD release of Samuel Barber's 1958 opera Vanessa.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th May 2019
24th May 2019
New releases from Korean-born violinist Joo Yeon Sir, James Ehnes and Sir Andrew Davis, and Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus a landmark Gioconda from the archives.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2019
22nd May 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s ‘revelatory accounts’ of two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica.
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Renée Fleming sings Mahler and other forthcoming highlights
21st May 2019
For her first Lieder album in nearly two decades, the American soprano sings the Rückert-Lieder with the Münchner Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, plus Brahms and Schumann with Hartmut Höll.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th May 2019
17th May 2019
New releases from Michael Fabiano, Magdalena Kožená, Il Giardino Armonico, Albrecht Mayer, and The Jerusalem Quartet, plus recitals by sopranos Anita Cerquetti and Graziella Sciutti from the archives.
