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Jean Carne, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, 'Jazz Is Dead 012: Jean Carne'
24th Jun 2022
Veteran soul vocalist Jean Carne returns to the studio as part of the latest instalment in Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead series.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2022 Choices
23rd Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the 'greatest recording' of Handel's 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione from Harry Bicket and The English Concert on Linn.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 23rd June 2022
23rd Jun 2022
The latest new jazz releases include trios from Charles Lloyd, a previously unreleased concert from Ella Fitzgerald, and T.S. Monk's first sextet live album.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2022
21st Jun 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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New Music Book Publications - 20th June 2022
20th Jun 2022
An exploration of music in the twentieth century by conductor John Mauceri; an examination of the poetry behind Liszt's piano music; a collection of letters from John Cage; an analysis of Messiaen's birdsong-inspired piano work, Catalogue d'oiseaux; graphic music analyses by Joseph N. Straus of thirty-three post-tonal works; a guide for performers on singing musical theatre; and a paperback reissue of a classic text on fourteenth-century mensuration.
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Tom Poster and Elena Urioste on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's chamber music
20th Jun 2022
The acclaimed husband-and-wife duo talk about their latest project – bringing the early chamber works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor back into the repertoire in new editions, recorded by the Kaleidoscope Ensemble.
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Rembrandt Frerichs on improvising piano concertos
20th Jun 2022
The Dutch pianist and composer sat down with us to chat about his two new piano concertos, bringing improvisation into the composition process, and what the rest of 2022 has in store for him.
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10 Essential Blue Note Albums: 1950s
19th Jun 2022
We recommend some of our favourite recordings from a heavily influential period in an equally important record label's catalogue.
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Wranitzky Symphonies from Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
17th Jun 2022
Bernhard Forck leads Akamus in a spirited showcase of the Moravian-born composer’s gifts as an orchestrator, featuring the overture to Oberon, the ‘Grande Symphonie caractéristique pour la Paix avec la République francaise’, and the ‘Tempest’ Symphony.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th June 2022
17th Jun 2022
A musical journey 'in the footsteps of Rumi', Chopin & Rachmaninoff from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, Mozart & Voříšek from Herbert Blomstedt, and Strauss from Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.
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Bill Evans, 'You Must Believe In Spring'
17th Jun 2022
A reissue of the much-loved posthumous Bill Evans album on Craft Recordings gives us the perfect excuse to revisit his late-career classic, You Must Believe In Spring.
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Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
16th Jun 2022
The Chilean-American tenor's album of French and Italian opera arias will be released in August, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Mahler from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th June 2022
16th Jun 2022
New music from Alan Broadbent, Pasquale Grasso, and Ivo Neame are amongst our picks for the best new jazz releases this week.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022
15th Jun 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Bart Van Reyn on CPE Bach's Die Auferstehung
14th Jun 2022
The Belgian conductor discusses his new recording of Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, a passion-oratorio on Christ's Resurrection and Ascension which was conducted by Mozart in the presence of Beethoven and Haydn (and influenced the latter's The Creation).
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Marc-André Hamelin performs William Bolcom's complete piano rags
10th Jun 2022
The Canadian pianist brings the 1960s' great ragtime revival into the present with a new recording of the complete rags of one of its leading lights.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th June 2022
10th Jun 2022
Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give world premieres of music by their compatriots, plus David Lang's the writings, Grieg from Peter Donohoe, and John Ireland from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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Ben Marc, 'Glass Effect'
10th Jun 2022
London-based bass player Ben Marc (aka Neil Charles) pools his influences from broken beat, free jazz and electronica in a low-key yet ambitious studio debut.
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ABRSM Piano 2023 & 2024 Publications
9th Jun 2022
Get ready for ABRSM's 2023 & 2024 graded piano exams with these new publications, offering a diverse choice of inspirational pieces. Also browse ABRSM's range of supporting test publications to help you fully prepare for the exams.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 9th June 2022
9th Jun 2022
This week's new jazz releases include the first solo album in over two decades from Brian Jackson, Parisian musician Sly Johnson's soul and hip-hop-infused 55.4, and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood playing the organ.
