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Introducing Andrei Ioniță
27th Mar 2019
The Romanian cellist talks to Katherine about his debut solo album Oblique Strategies, which includes the world premiere recording of Brett Dean's Brian Eno-inspired work of the same name as well as music by JS Bach, Kodály and Svante Henryson.
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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on Mozart
25th Mar 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about his recent recording of the Mozart concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, and his role as president of the Carl Nielsen International Competition, which is currently in full swing in Denmark.
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Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida
22nd Mar 2019
Sir Mark Elder conducts the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera semiseria from 1839, composed for a theatre which closed down before the opening night, but subsequently heavily revised as La favorite.
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Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida
21st Mar 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Donizetti’s 1839 opera, released tomorrow on Opera Rara with Joyce El-Khoury in the title-role.
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Alexander Ullman on Russian ballet transcriptions
19th Mar 2019
The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, released last Friday on Rubicon.
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
Alexander Ullman (piano)
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Michael Gielen (1927-2019)
10th Mar 2019
The Austrian-German conductor, renowned for his interpretations of twentieth-century and contemporary music, has died aged 91.
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Philippe Jaroussky sings Cavalli
8th Mar 2019
The French countertenor leads Artaserse in a kaleidoscopic survey of the many and varied operas by the seventeenth-century Italian composer, shot through with the spirit of Venetian carnival.
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019
Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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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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Franck and Vierne from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
1st Mar 2019
The Russian violinist and French pianist bring a refreshing clarity and delicacy to two sonatas written for the Belgian composer-violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
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Kirill Gerstein on Busoni
20th Feb 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Italian composer’s gargantuan Piano Concerto of 1904, released this week on Myrios with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.
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Paul Lewis plays early Schubert and Weber
15th Feb 2019
The British pianist radiates sympathy and imagination in two piano sonatas from the 1810s by young composers who both died before their fortieth birthdays.
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Weber & Schubert: Piano Sonatas
Paul Lewis (piano)
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Sir George Benjamin on Lessons in Love and Violence
13th Feb 2019
The composer talks to Katherine about the genesis of his third opera, which premiered at Covent Garden last May and was released on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of December.
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George Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (DVD)
Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King) Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, George Benjamin, Katie Mitchell
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Kirill Karabits conducts the world premiere of Liszt's Sardanapalo
8th Feb 2019
Reconstructed by the musicologist David Trippett, the single completed act of Liszt's abandoned opera on a subject by Byron reveals what the composer's son-in-law Wagner described as 'the claw of a lion'.
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David Trippett on Liszt's Sardanapalo
8th Feb 2019
The musicologist and driving-force behind today's Recording of the Week talks to Katherine about the mysterious genesis of Liszt's uncompleted opera, and the process of reconstructing the manuscript for performance.
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Paavo Järvi on Sibelius
4th Feb 2019
The Estonian conductor talks to Katherine about recording the first-ever complete set of Sibelius symphonies with a French orchestra during his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris.
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2019
1st Feb 2019
Two startlingly original symphonies by the African-American composer Florence Price, Berlioz laid bare by four hands on a Pleyel, and hot-to-the-touch Schumann from Gautier Capuçon and Martha Argerich.
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Hilary Hahn on Bach
30th Jan 2019
The American violinist talks to Katherine about returning to Bach's solo sonatas and partitas two decades after her debut recording aged 16.
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Berlioz from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
18th Jan 2019
Tabea Zimmermann and Stéphane Degout are the soloists in period-instrument performances of Harold en Italie & Les nuits d'été.
