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Piccolo Paganini, Volume 2
21st Feb 2023
Following the success of the first volume, Piccolo Paganini, Vol. 2 contains thirty original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. These rarely performed concert pieces provide appealing, accessible, and musically rewarding repertoire pieces. Find out more.
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2023 Choices
20th Feb 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an 'exquisite' recital on the themes of love and loss from Ruby Hughes & Huw Watkins on BIS, which takes its title from Watkins's new song-cycle Echo.
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Tim Garland and Jason Rebello on their new album 'Life to Life'
18th Feb 2023
We sat down with British jazz duo and old friends, pianist Jason Rebello and multi-reedist Tim Garland, to talk about their new duet album Life to Life and their longstanding musical companionship.
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Life to Life
Jason Rebello & Tim Garland
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Presto Music's Streaming Service is finally here!
17th Feb 2023
We’re so excited to announce that the Presto Music Streaming Service, created specifically for classical and jazz lovers, is now live and the new apps are available for download!
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Biber's Rosary Sonatas from Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti
17th Feb 2023
Inspired by a dance project for the stage, Beyer and her fellow musicians rediscover the vitality of Biber's cycle of devotional sonatas.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th February 2023
17th Feb 2023
Verdi from Riccardo Chailly and the musicians of the Teatro alla Scala, a soul-searching song recital from Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton, Schumann from Fabrizio Chiovetta, and courtly chamber music of the French Baroque from Philippe Jaroussky, Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata.
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott, 'Cookin' With Jaws and the Queen'
17th Feb 2023
Released in celebration of saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' centenary, this new set collects the short-lived but fruitful collaborative sessions by Davis and the "Queen of the Organ" Shirley Scott.
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Rory McCleery on Vicente Lusitano
16th Feb 2023
The Marian Consort's director talks about the ensemble's recent album of choral polyphony by Vicente Lusitano, the earliest-known classical composer of African ancestry.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th February 2023
16th Feb 2023
The latest jazz releases include Chris Potter at the Village Vanguard, recordings from London's Total Refreshment Centre, and Avishai Cohen's Hebrew vocal album re-released for the first time outside Israel.
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Simon Callaghan on Reinecke
15th Feb 2023
The British pianist and academic talks about his latest contribution to Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series, featuring three works by a German composer whose many illustrious students included Grieg, Albéniz and Janáček...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2023
14th Feb 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Toutes les nuits - a 'stunning, intelligently paced' album of nocturnal Renaissance songs from Romain Bockler, Bor Zuljan and Dulces Exuviae on Ricercar.
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Véronique Gens on singing Poulenc's Elle
13th Feb 2023
The French soprano reflects on undertaking the biggest challenge of her career to date, and explains why La voix humaine is 'unique in the whole history of music'...
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Joe Chambers, 'Dance Kobina'
10th Feb 2023
The American drummer, vibraphonist and composer finds familiarities between jazz and the music of Latin America & Africa on his latest Blue Note album, and third as bandleader.
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Dance Kobina
Joe Chambers
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Voyage intime from Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch
10th Feb 2023
The French soprano and pianist are beguiling companions on this 'intimate journey' via songs by Schubert, Liszt, Wolf, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Duparc and Debussy.
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Voyage intime
Sandrine Piau (soprano) David Kadouch (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 10th February 2023
10th Feb 2023
Beethoven piano concertos from Boris Giltburg, Bach arrangements from Holland Baroque, Bonds sacred works from The Dessoff Choirs & Malcolm J Merriweather and an avian selection from La Rêveuse.
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Julian Podger on the music of Dufay
9th Feb 2023
The director of Gothic Voices talks about the group's new album of choral works from Florentine collections, including two of Dufay's most famous motets - Nuper rosarum flores and O tres piteulx.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 9th February 2023
9th Feb 2023
The latest jazz releases include Brad Mehldau playing tunes by The Beatles, singer-songwriter Jo Lawry returning to jazz, and reissues of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Art Blakey.
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Beatrice Rana on Clara & Robert Schumann
8th Feb 2023
In the wake of her recording of the Schumanns' piano concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Italian pianist reflects on the 'powerful, open and beautiful' relationship between the couple.
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Classic Sun Ra Reissues from Strut Records
7th Feb 2023
Four reissues courtesy of Strut Records present the music of Sun Ra in lovingly-packaged vinyl pressings, remastered from the original analog tapes.
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New Music Book Publications - 6th February 2023
6th Feb 2023
A memoir of childhood from pianist Stephen Hough, an examination of the works of Beethoven, a biography of influential musicologist Edward J. Dent, an exploration of the importance of the symphony in Germany and the United States in 1933, an analysis of why dance matters, and paperback reissues of books on how the brain interprets musical patterns in different ways and the relationship between sound recording technology and American literature.
