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The Presto Chart - August 2022
1st Sep 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Alison Balsom's Quiet City (released last Friday on Warner Classics) in first place...
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 1st September 2022
1st Sep 2022
The latest picks for our jazz release round-up include new recordings by the Julia Hülsmann Quartet and Dave Sear, as well as live reissues from Miles Davis and Michel Petrucciani.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2022
31st Aug 2022
Mahler from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, a beguiling 'emporium of curiosities' from Sean Shibe, and Wolf Lieder in full orchestral technicolour from Benjamin Appl and the Jenaer Philharmonie.
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Randall Scotting on Senesino
31st Aug 2022
The American countertenor discusses his new album The Crown, exploring the star castrato's legacy beyond the Handel roles for which he is best known today...
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Opus Klassik Awards 2022
30th Aug 2022
Revealed this morning in advance of next month's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Igor Levit, Lea Desandre, Vladimir Jurowski and Kian Soltani.
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Easy Composer Series: My First Schubert
30th Aug 2022
Schott's Easy Composer Series features a wide selection of easier pieces by well-known composers, ideally suited to pianists looking to expand their repertoire, and perfect for music lessons and playing at home. The latest in the series, My First Schubert, is the perfect introduction to Romantic piano music. Find out more.
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Joey DeFrancesco (1971-2022)
30th Aug 2022
The American jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his contributions in reviving the jazz organ in modern music, has died aged 51.
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Alison Balsom's Quiet City
26th Aug 2022
Alison Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia offer a colourful collection of works and arrangements that place the trumpet firmly at the centre of attention.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th August 2022
26th Aug 2022
Brahms symphonies from Ádám Fischer, Johann Jakob Walther from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Sean Shibe's Lost & Found, and early English keyboard music from Giulia Nuti.
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Masao Nakajima Quartet, 'Kemo-Sabe'
26th Aug 2022
At a time when acoustic jazz ensembles were falling out of style, Masao Nakajima's 1979 debut album managed to push traditional sounds into new territories, and finally gets its due as a reissue from Barely Breaking Even.
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Masao Nakajima Quartet
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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 25th August 2022
25th Aug 2022
The latest jazz releases include a reissue of the classic World of Cecil Taylor from Candid, the latest album by fusion veterans Yellowjackets, and an Al Foster session at Smoke Jazz Club.
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Giulia Nuti on The Fall of the Leaf
24th Aug 2022
The Italian harpsichordist talks about her new album celebrating the Golden Age of English keyboard music (out this Friday on Arcana), and the remarkable history of the 'Rucellai Virginal' which she plays on the recording...
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Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2022
23rd Aug 2022
August heavyweights include a set of Pablo Casals's late chamber music recordings for Philips, the complete Schubert piano sonatas from Elisabeth Leonskaja, and an anthology of French baroque music from the Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
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Karl Engel (piano), Pablo Casals (cello, condutor), Various Soloists & Orchestras, Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), Sandor Végh (violin), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Végh Quartet (string quartet), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, Maurice Gendron (cello), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - September 2022
23rd Aug 2022
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the September 2022 issue include the Avishai Cohen Trio's Shifting Sands, Julian Lage's View With a Room featuring Bill Frisell, and a bootleg compilation of early '80s Miles Davis.
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Tango canción: Argentine tangos for voice & piano
23rd Aug 2022
Containing a wide-ranging selection of songs, Tango canción covers the entire history of tango in its historical and musical diversity, from its beginnings right up to today. Equally suitable for amateur and professional singers, this collection offers instantly appealing repertoire. Find out more.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2022 Choices
22nd Aug 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with concertos and orchestral works by Wieniawski, Dobrzyński & Kurpiński from the Orchestra of the 18th Century in pride of place...
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Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust perform György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente
19th Aug 2022
An extraordinary tour de force from the soprano and violinist duo, performing the Hungarian composer's great song cycle setting fragments of texts by Franz Kafka.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th August 2022
19th Aug 2022
Britten from Andrew Staples and Daniel Harding, late Schubert from René Jacobs and B'rock Orchestra, Secret Love Letters from Lisa Batiashvili, and John Cage from the Latvian Radio Choir.
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DOMi & JD BECK- NOT TiGHT
19th Aug 2022
From teenage YouTube sensations to pukka Blue Note artists in just a few years, DOMi & JD BECK's debut album NOT TiGHT is a riot of live breakbeats and dazzling keyboards, with some starry guest artists joining in the fun.
