Classical Reviews
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John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream
3rd Feb 2017
James listens to John Eliot Gardiner's recording of Mendelssohn's delightful incidental music, with the LSO and Monteverdi Choir.
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Haydn String Quartets performed by the London Haydn Quartet
27th Jan 2017
David enjoys the London Haydn Quartet's performances of Haydn's Opp. 54 & 55.
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The London Haydn Quartet
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Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Tchaikovsky Symphonies
20th Jan 2017
James listens to the culmination of Vasily Petrenko's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - symphonies Nos. 3, 4, and 6.
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Diana Damrau sings in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers from the Met
13th Jan 2017
Katherine enjoys a new staging of Bizet's glorious exotic opera, starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.
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Bernard Haitink conducts Mahler's Third Symphony
6th Jan 2017
Katherine listens to Bernard Haitink's new recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Gerald Finley sings Sibelius songs
30th Dec 2016
Katherine listens to baritone Gerald Finley's collection of brooding, melancholy orchestral songs by Sibelius.
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Jack Liebeck performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 2
23rd Dec 2016
James listens to Jack Liebeck and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Bruch's Second Violin Concerto and other concertante works.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2016
16th Dec 2016
The Editorial team pick out their "ones that got away" from 2016 - the discs that slipped through the net but which we feel deserve a mention in despatches…
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Teodor Currentzis conducts Mozart's Don Giovanni
9th Dec 2016
Katherine listens to a powerful new account of Mozart's troubling masterpiece, with MusicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis.
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Dimitris Tiliakos (Don Giovanni), Vito Priante (Leporello), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Karina Gauvin (Donna Elvira), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Mika Kares (Il Commendatore) MusicAeterna & MusicAeterna Choir, Teodor Currentzis
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Bach's Christmas Oratorio from John Butt and Handel's Messiah from Andrew Davis
2nd Dec 2016
David listens to a contrasting double-bill of festive oratorios, with the Dunedin Consort and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Symphony Orchestra.
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Mary Bevan (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass) - Cantatas 1, 3, 6), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass) - Cantatas 2, 4, 5. Dunedin Consort, John Butt
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Seong-Jin Cho, winner of the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition, performs Chopin
25th Nov 2016
James enjoys International Chopin Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho's debut studio album, featuring (unsurprisingly!) Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades.
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Lisa Batiashvili performs Violin Concertos by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius
18th Nov 2016
James listens to the Georgian violinist's new double-bill of concertos, with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim.
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Matthias Goerne sings Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre
11th Nov 2016
Katherine listens to the next instalment in Naxos's Ring Cycle, conducted by Jaap van Zweden.
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Elīna Garanča sings dramatic arias for mezzo-soprano
4th Nov 2016
Katherine enjoys the Latvian mezzo's new recital disc of dramatic arias.
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Isabelle Faust plays Mozart's Violin Concertos
28th Oct 2016
David enjoys Isabelle Faust's new complete set of Mozart's Violin Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico.
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The Tallis Scholars perform two Masses by Josquin
21st Oct 2016
David listens to the Tallis Scholars' new double-bill of Josquin masses, including the mysterious and unorthodox 'Dice Mass'.
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Bach and Telemann cantatas from Philippe Jaroussky
14th Oct 2016
Katherine listens to the star countertenor's bewitching performances of solo cantatas by Bach and Telemann.
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Daniil Trifonov performs Liszt's complete Concert Etudes
7th Oct 2016
Katherine listens to the Russian pianist's jaw-dropping account of Liszt's supremely challenging Etudes.
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Münchner Philharmoniker launch their own label with music by Bruckner and Mahler
30th Sep 2016
James introduces the Münchner Philharmoniker's new label with a double-bill of stirring Romantic masterworks conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin
23rd Sep 2016
David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.
