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BBC Music Magazine - October 2020 Choices
8th Sep 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sergei Babayan's 'utterly compelling' Rachmaninov recital on Deutsche Grammophon as Recording of the Month.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2020
7th Sep 2020
Chris rounds up the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards, which will be presented at the Konzerthaus Berlin next month.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th September 2020
4th Sep 2020
Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner from Bergen, lockdown Lieder from Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Mahler from Iván Fischer, and a boxed set of Ravel's complete works on Warner Classics.
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The Presto Chart - August 2020
3rd Sep 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Nicola Benedetti's Elgar Violin Concerto with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place...
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Gramophone Awards 2020 - The Shortlist
2nd Sep 2020
This year's six contenders in each of the ten categories were revealed yesterday.
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Claudio Cavina (1962-2020)
1st Sep 2020
The Italian countertenor, conductor and co-founder of La Venexiana, whose Monteverdi recordings were particularly acclaimed, has died aged 58.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2020
28th Aug 2020
Mahler from Vladimir Jurowski, Shostakovich from Alban Gerhardt, Mozart from Francesco Piemontesi and Andrew Manze, and Melly Still's Glyndebourne production of Rusalka on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2020
25th Aug 2020
Beethoven from the Smetana Quartet, a 75th birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and a DVD collection celebrating the centenary of the Salzburg Festival.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2020
21st Aug 2020
Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout & Pablo Heras-Casado, Schumann from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, vintage Elgar from America, and a French recital from oboist François Leleux.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2020
18th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Vladimir Jurowski's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Sarah Connolly, Robert Dean Smith and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Pentatone.
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Julian Bream (1933-2020)
14th Aug 2020
The pioneering British guitarist and lutenist, who catalysed a widespread revival of interest in both instruments and inspired a huge body of new music for guitar, has died aged 87.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2020
14th Aug 2020
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini on DVD from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel concerti grossi from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, early Beethoven from Jos van Immerseel, and Bernard Haitink’s farewell to Salzburg.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2020 Choices
11th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Cleveland Orchestra’s eclectic celebration of their centenary (featuring two world premieres commissioned for the occasion) as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th August 2020
7th Aug 2020
Dvořák from Kian Soltani and Daniel Barenboim, Rachmaninov from Sergei Babayan, the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth's choral symphony The Prison, and a new large-scale recording project from Max Richter.
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The Presto Chart - July 2020
5th Aug 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Paul Lewis's Beethoven Bagatelles on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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Leon Fleisher (1928-2020)
3rd Aug 2020
The American pianist, who spent much of his career unable to use his right hand due to focal dystonia, has died aged 92.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2020
31st Jul 2020
Vaughan Williams and Finzi from Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Satie from Noriko Ogawa, and two new works for baroque orchestra and voices by Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning American composer Caroline Shaw.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2020
29th Jul 2020
Centenary celebrations of Isaac Stern and the Salzburg Festival, a seventy-fifth birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and Delitiae Musicae's complete Monteverdi madrigals on Naxos.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th July 2020
24th Jul 2020
Elgar from Elīna Garanča and Daniel Barenboim, Telemann from Barthold Kuijken, an arresting debut recording from The Hermes Experiment, and three neglected British clarinet concertos from Robert Plane.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2020
21st Jul 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a ‘formidable’ account of Luigi Dallapiccola’s one-act opera Il Prigioniero from Gianandrea Noseda on Chandos.
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