New and Future Releases
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New. Beethoven: The Last Three Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109, 110 & 111
RecommendedMitsuko Uchida (piano)
This is the kind of music-making that can hold you rapt across the span of all three sonatas in a single sitting. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th July 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck has that rare ability to make even the most well-worn works sound engagingly fresh...Simon's riotously colourful Four Black American Dances (2023) makes an apt coupling. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd July 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. Giordano: Marina
RecommendedEleonora Buratto (Marina), Freddie De Tommaso (Giorgio), Nicholas Mogg (Daniele), Mihai Damian (Lambro), Coro del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Vincenzo Milletarì
I doubt that even Giordano himself invested more care, and more artistic self-belief, in Marina. If he had been able to hear this recording, he might have changed his mind. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st July 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2026, Recording of the Month
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Hrůša has an assured drive through the elusive symphonic structures, culminating in an incessantly hair-raising Sixth...It's a journey you'll want to follow in close succession. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2026
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Record Review, 23rd May 2026, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Orchestral Choice
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Musicians are big on postcards...But none are as beautifully written as those by Stephen Hough, a reliable scribe wherever he is in the world. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Respighi: Sinfonia drammatica
RecommendedOrchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Robert Trevino
The engineering captures plenty of detail... the brass make plenty of impact, thundering their oration in the Lento religioso... [Trevino]’s grasp of the symphony’s structure is firm and he... —
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Record Review, 13th June 2026, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th June 2026
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New. Copland: Symphony No. 3 – Walker: Sinfonia No. 5, 'Visions'
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra do nothing to soften either work's aggressive if contrasting spirit. The LSO sounds, indeed, much like a genuine American orchestra: rhythms are fiercely... —
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Record Review, 6th June 2026, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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It's with the Fourth Sonata of Scriabin that the full breadth of Liu's musical and pianistic gifts unfurls. He takes risks, stealing the breath with perfectly calculated dynamics, and retaining... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th August 2026
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New. Finzi: Requiem da camera & Other Choral Works
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Florian Störtz (bass-baritone), Augustine Cox, Thomas Simpson (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Steven Grahl
The choral singing throughout remains intimate and reverential. A wonderful achievement, beautifully recorded and most strongly recommended. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2026, Editor's Choice
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Azzolini's achievement here is outstanding, even by the high standards of this cycle, which now stands head and shoulders above the competition as the prime recommendation for this ever-inventive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2026, Editor's Choice
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