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Flora Lucas
Flora spent 9 years at Presto from 2011 to 2020 working in a variety of roles across the company. She left to pursue a long-held calling to become a primary school teacher – a role she will excel at. She remains a keen double bass player and friend of us all at Presto.
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26 new Sony titles added to Presto CD
24th Aug 2020
Including Rachmaninov from Ruth Laredo, Glenn Gould live in Leningrad, Nielsen from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Richard Strauss from Zubin Mehta.
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New Sony titles added to Presto CD
10th Aug 2020
Including Mahler from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bach from Charles Rosen, and several recordings from Anner Bylsma and Tafelmusik.
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Presto CD additions on DG, Decca and DG Archiv
27th Jul 2020
Including Beethoven from Krystian Zimerman, Bernstein conducting Bernstein, Bach from Alexis Weissenberg, and the complete works of Varèse.
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New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
11th Jul 2020
Including recordings from Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Emil Gilels and Herbert von Karajan.
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New titles added to Presto CD - March 2020
17th Mar 2020
New Presto CDs include Beethoven piano concertos from Maurizio Pollini, Berg and Stravinsky from Itzhak Perlman, and Brahms from Carlos Kleiber.
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New titles added to Presto CD - February 2020
17th Feb 2020
Including Riccardo Chailly conducting Orff's Carmina Burana, Dvořák's Piano Concerto from András Schiff and Shostakovich's Symphony No 14 from Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Titles from The British Collection added to Presto CD
6th Jan 2020
Seventeen titles from Decca's British Collection make up our latest Presto CD additions, including recordings of Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Holst, Tippett and Walton.
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31 new Decca titles added to Presto CD
23rd Dec 2019
Recently added Presto CDs include Mahler from Christoph von Dohnányi, Grieg and Chopin from Olli Mustonen and Haydn from Sir Georg Solti.
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Titles from Decca's Enterprise series added to Presto CD
16th Dec 2019
New additions to Presto CD include Berio, Henze and Hindemith conducting their own works, plus other twentieth-century repertoire.
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More new Decca titles added to our Presto CD catalogue
3rd Dec 2019
Including Vladimir Ashkenazy as conductor and pianist, Webern from Christoph von Dohnányi and Haydn and Handel from Georg Solti.
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New Decca titles added to our Presto CD catalogue
13th Nov 2019
Including recordings from András Schiff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Sir Georg Solti and Riccardo Chailly.
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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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BBC Music Magazine - May 2017 Choices
22nd Apr 2017
Flora introduces this month's picks, with Richard Strauss from Paavo Järvi and the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo leading the pack as Recording of the Month.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards - The Winners!
19th Apr 2017
A live update from the ceremony in Kings Place - all is revealed…
