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BBC Music Magazine - November 2025 Choices
6th Oct 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'thoughtful and on occasion provocative' Bach from Isabelle Faust with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Kristin von der Goltz on Harmonia Mundi.
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The Presto Chart - September 2025
2nd Oct 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, headed by John Wilson's hyper-complete recording of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady with Sinfonia of London on Chandos.
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Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady
Scarlett Strallen (Eliza Doolittle), Jamie Parker (Henry Higgins), Alun Armstrong (Alfred P. Doolittle), Malcolm Sinclair (Colonel Pickering), Laurence Kilsby (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Julia McKenzie (Mrs Pearce), Penelope Wilton (Mrs Higgins) Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2025
15th Sep 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Purcell's Dido & Aeneas from Il Pomo d'Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev on Erato, with the 'magical pairing' of Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres in the title-roles.
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Gramophone Awards 2025 - The Finalists
12th Sep 2025
The three finalists in each of the eleven categories for this year's Awards (presented in partnership with Presto Music) were revealed this morning, with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Kantorow, Huw Montague Rendall and Timothy Ridout among those in the running...
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2025 Choices
10th Sep 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a display of 'masterful virtuosity' from Alexander Melnikov and Julia Lezhneva in an all-Rachmaninoff programme which was recorded on the composer's own piano at Villa Senar in Switzerland.
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The Presto Chart - August 2025
1st Sep 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, headed by the late Sir Andrew Davis's magnificent orchestral transcriptions of organ works by JS Bach on Chandos.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2025 Choices
18th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Rachel Podger's 'spontaneous and sensitive' accounts of six Biber violin sonatas with Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2025
12th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'welcome, colourful and, at times, unconventional' set of Bach orchestral transcriptions by the late Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos.
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The Presto Chart - July 2025
4th Aug 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, headed by Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque's all-Biber programme on Channel Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2025 Choices
29th Jul 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by accounts of six cello sonatas which are 'in a class of their own' from Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and her husband Martin Helmchen on Alpha Classics.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2025
14th Jul 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Vilém Vlček and Denis Linnik's 'urgent and profound' set of Martinů's complete works for cello and piano on Supraphon.
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The Presto Chart - June 2025
2nd Jul 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, headed by Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Ravel's La valse from Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris on Decca.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2025
24th Jun 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Bojan Čičić's 'masterly' recording of Biber's complete violin sonatas from 1681 on Delphian.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2025 Choices
18th Jun 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard's recording of his long-term friend György Kurtág's Játékok on Pentatone.
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The Presto Chart - May 2025
2nd Jun 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, headed by 'dazzling' accounts of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 and Symphonic Dances from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson on Chandos.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2025 Choices
27th May 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'distinctive, individual' solo recital from viola-player Timothy Ridout on Harmonia Mundi, featuring music by Telemann, JS Bach, Britten and Shaw.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - June 2025
20th May 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'most distinguished' account of Richard Strauss's Salome from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic on Chandos, recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival in 2022 with Malin Byström in the title-role.
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The Presto Chart - April 2025
1st May 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, headed by Edward Gardner's electrifying live recording of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer with the Norwegian National Opera, starring Gerald Finley as The Dutchman and Lise Davidsen as Senta.
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Lise Davidsen (Senta), Gerald Finley (The Dutchman), Brindley Sherratt (Daland), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Erik), Anna Kissjudit (Mary), Eirik Grøtvedt (Steersman) Orchestra and Chorus of Norwegian National Opera, Edward Gardner
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2025 Choices
28th Apr 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a Shostakovich recital from the Jerusalem Quartet which 'combines amazing technical finesse with overwhelming musical insight'.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025: The Winners!
23rd Apr 2025
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
