Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2019
29th Mar 2019
New albums from Yvgeny Sudbin, Bojan Čičić, Eric Le Sage, and Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, plus a bicentenary tribute to Clara Schumann from Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2019 Choices
26th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Peter Donohoe, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch, and Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2019
22nd Mar 2019
New albums from Iestyn Davies and Fretwork, Quatuor Diotima and the Carducci Quartet, plus the world premiere of Moniuszko’s Halka in its 1857 Italian version from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2019
20th Mar 2019
A centenary edition from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Robert Casadesus’s collected Columbia recordings, Tchaikovsky’s complete solo piano works from Valentina Lisitsa, and a comprehensive recorder anthology from Brilliant Classics.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th March 2019
15th Mar 2019
New albums from Khatia Buniatishvili, Fazil Say and the Artemis Quartet, the final release in Iván Fischer’s Mahler series with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Elgar, Moeran and Vaughan Williams from the Barbirolli Society archives.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2019 Choices
12th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month’s choices, headed by a peerless Schumann song-recital from German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber on Sony Classical.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th March 2019
8th Mar 2019
New albums from Andreas Ottensamer, Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Ian Bostridge, and the world premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, with the composer conducting and the dedicatee as soloist.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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Presto Editor's Choices - February 2019
4th Mar 2019
Two contributions to this year’s Offenbach bicentenary by rising young French virtuosos, orchestral works by ‘the father of Scottish music’, and superb advocacy for three female composers from violinist Tasmin Little.
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The Presto Chart - February 2019
2nd Mar 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fourth instalment of Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich Under Stalin series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st March 2019
1st Mar 2019
New recordings from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Sir Andrew Davies and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and British vocal ensemble EXAUDI, plus Bernard Haitink’s Mahler and Bruckner cycles with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on Blu-ray Audio.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2019
26th Feb 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed up some 'simply wonderful Bach-playing' from Polish pianist Ewa Pobłocka on the Frederick Chopin Institute's own label.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd February 2019
22nd Feb 2019
New recordings from Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Vadym Kholodenko, and Lucie Horsch, plus the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel.
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56 new Sony titles added
21st Feb 2019
Highlights include recordings by Leonard Bernstein, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Williams, and music composed by Glenn Gould.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th February 2019
15th Feb 2019
New recordings from Edgar Moreau, Jeremy Denk and François-Xavier Roth, plus a memorial to Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and a 1955 recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden from Belgrade.
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Victoires de la Musique Classique 2019
14th Feb 2019
Chris presents the winners and nominees from last night's ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Paris, including Lang Lang and French baritone Stéphane Degout.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2019
14th Feb 2019
A Berlioz anniversary tribute from Warner Classics, Wilhelm Fürtwangler’s wartime radio broadcasts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, a ninetieth-birthday celebration of Bernard Haitink, and anthologies of Idil Biret, Van Cliburn, and Leonard Pennario.
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Grammy Winners 2019
11th Feb 2019
Chris introduces the winning classical albums from this year's ceremony, which took place last night in Los Angeles.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th February 2019
8th Feb 2019
New recordings from Paul Lewis, Olga Peretyatko, Anna Lucia Richter and The King’s Singers, plus a collection of Furtwängler radio broadcasts from the archives of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Berlioz from Rattle and Davis and other forthcoming highlights
7th Feb 2019
La damnation de Faust from London and L’enfance du Christ from Melbourne, plus Bruckner from Robin Ticciati, Bach from Isabelle Faust, and the final instalment of Iván Fischer’s mighty Mahler series from Budapest.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2019 Choices
6th Feb 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Vox Luminis, Jennifer Pike, Charles Owen, and Antonio Pappano and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
