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Lara Downes on Love at Last
18th May 2023
The pianist and activist talks about her new album, pulling together piano miniatures from all around the world, past and present, in response to challenging times.
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Love at Last
Lara Downes (piano, voice)
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Ingrid Haebler (1929-2023)
17th May 2023
The Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper broke the news on Sunday that the Austrian pianist and early pioneer of period instrument performance had died at the age of 93.
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Broken Branches from Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe
12th May 2023
The Lebanese-American tenor and Scottish guitarist join forces for a multifaceted yet deeply personal recital, that ranges across cultural and geographical boundaries and explores the idea of diaspora in music.
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Broken Branches
Karim Sulayman (tenor), Sean Shibe (guitar)
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Tessa Lark on The Stradgrass Sessions
11th May 2023
The violinist talks about her new album, which sees her collaborate with an eclectic mix of musicians and explore everything from Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No. 5 to Michael Cleveland's infectious fiddle-tunes.
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Menahem Pressler (1923-2023)
10th May 2023
The German-born Israeli-American pianist, who co-founded the enormously successful Beaux Arts Trio and remained its lynchpin for over half a century, has died aged 99.
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Music for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
6th May 2023
A selection of music for royal occasions, and recordings from the composers and artists featured at the King's Coronation - from Parry and Purcell to Weir and Williams.
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Matilda Lloyd on 'Casta Diva'
3rd May 2023
In an exclusive post-concert interview for Presto Music following her launch recital at London's Wigmore Hall, trumpeter Matilda Lloyd talks about her new album of opera-inspired variations for trumpet and ensemble, 'Casta Diva' - featuring arrangements of works by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Viardot and more, and showcasing the instrument's more lyrical side.
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Eric Whitacre at... 30!
3rd May 2023
Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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Early Music Round-Up - Spring 2023
27th Apr 2023
A Baroque programme mirroring the texts of Brahms's German Requiem from Vox Luminis, Schütz's jubilant Easter Oratorio from Ensemble Polyharmonique, transcriptions of Bach organ works from Holland Baroque, a retracing of Telemann's wanderings through Central and Eastern Europe from Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and more.
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Eric Whitacre at... 30!
26th Apr 2023
Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin
22nd Apr 2023
Pianist, conductor, musicologist and Mozart reconstructionist Robert Levin talks about the resumption of his complete survey of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra.
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John Eliot Gardiner at 80
20th Apr 2023
A look back over the conductor's long and illustrious recording career - from Monteverdi operas and Bach cantatas to Romantic rediscoveries and more.
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David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures'
18th Apr 2023
The artistic director of Alamire talks about his new recording with Fretwork of Byrd's 1589 collection of church and domestic songs, complementing an album from two years ago in which they explored the previous volume from 1588.
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Florian Deuter on Biber's sonatas "for altar and court"
13th Apr 2023
The violinist talks about his recent album of ensemble music by Biber - twelve sonatas for various combinations of instruments, interleaved with twelve duos for trumpets, all coming from Biber's time in the service of the Salzburg court.
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Bracing Change - Helen Grime on contemporary string quartets
11th Apr 2023
Scottish composer Helen Grime discusses her second string quartet, which features on the second volume of Bracing Change string commissions from NMC and the Wigmore Hall.
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Music for Holy Week
6th Apr 2023
A selection of recent recordings of music inspired by Holy Week - from early to contemporary, religious to humanist, and with a mix of choral, solo vocal, and instrumental works.
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Episode 35: Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers
2nd Apr 2023
Patrick Dunachie of The King's Singers and Richard Boothby of Fretwork talk about the madrigals and instrumental music of two Tudor titans.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian composer
1st Apr 2023
A selection of some of the finest recent recordings of the Russian colossus, to mark his 150th anniversary.
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Visages Baroques from new Deutsche Grammophon signing Raphaël Feuillâtre
31st Mar 2023
The 26-year-old guitarist makes his debut for the yellow label with a dance-suite-inspired programme of Bach and French Baroque works.
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Christopher Gunning (1944-2023)
29th Mar 2023
The English composer, whose output ranged from sweeping symphonies and concertos to award-winning music for a huge range of film and television productions, has died aged 78.
