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Episode 11: Tinkling the Ivories with Harriet Smith
27th Jan 2021
After a short break, the Presto Music Podcast is back, and for this first episode, Harriet Smith and Paul Thomas talk through some of their favourite pianists.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2021
26th Jan 2021
The complete Percy Grainger recordings on Chandos, an anthology of piano lessons from Christoph Eschenbach, and celebrations of Dame Gillian Weir and Hephzibah Menuhin.
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Great Choral Works in Small Scorings
26th Jan 2021
Offering arrangements to make it easier and considerably more economical to perform the great choral works every choir wants to sing.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2021
25th Jan 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the first instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Rachmaninov series from Philadelphia on Deutsche Grammophon in pride of place.
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New Music Book Publications - 25th January 2021
25th Jan 2021
An updated biography of Mozart; an exploration of Puccini's La bohème; an analysis of the ballet collaborations between Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins; a discussion of the issues facing pianists when performing historical repertoire on modern instruments; an examination of fugue in the sixteenth century; and books on music and liturgy in the Iberian Peninsula and fourteenth-century northern France.
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Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
25th Jan 2021
Pat Metheny's debut studio recording featured a blending of ECM-style jazz, fusion and Americana sounds, proving the young guitarist was already a force to be reckoned with.
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Behzod Abduraimov plays Debussy, Chopin and Mussorgsky
22nd Jan 2021
The Uzbek pianist is beguiling in Children's Corner and the 24 Preludes Op. 28, and offers the virtual tour of one's dreams in Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd January 2021
22nd Jan 2021
Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico, Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques, Prokofiev from Nicholas Angelich, and Romberg from Chouchane Siranossian.
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Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra - The Democracy! Suite
22nd Jan 2021
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and trumpeter finds inspiration in a tumultuous period for the United States, with a suite that spans many eras of jazz.
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François-Xavier Roth on Beethoven & Gossec
21st Jan 2021
The French conductor talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Gossec's Symphonie à 17 parties.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 21st January 2021
21st Jan 2021
Highlights this week include Will Glaser's Climbing in Circles, Arthur Hnatek Trio's Static, a mash-up of jazz and consort music, and Soweto-based Urab Village's Udondolo
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International Classical Music Awards 2021
20th Jan 2021
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Beatrice Rana, Ermonela Jaho, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Chouchane Siranossian.
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Nicolas Hodges on Birtwistle and Beethoven
19th Jan 2021
Reflecting on his recent release on Wergo, the pianist talks about Bagatelles, improvisation and his own relationship with Harrison Birtwistle.
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New Generation Gig Bags from Tom & Will
19th Jan 2021
For the past fifteen years, Tom & Will's colourful gig bags have been providing reliable protection for a broad range of instruments from orchestral, concert and brass band as well as folk. We take a look at some bags from their New Generation series.
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Osian Ellis (1928-2021)
18th Jan 2021
The Welsh harpist, whose artistry inspired composers including Benjamin Britten, has died aged 92.
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Herbie Mann - Push Push
18th Jan 2021
Herbie Mann's embracing of funk and rock music wasn't met with the kindest words, but the funk-jazz crossover is just as deserving of a classic status as Miles Davis' similar experiments in the 1970's.
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Push Push
Herbie Mann
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Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara
15th Jan 2021
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2021
15th Jan 2021
Plaisirs illuminés from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Behzod Abduraimov's debut recital on Alpha, Telemann from Holland Baroque, and Nathalie Stutzmann in baroque opera arias with Orfeo 55.
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Matchbox Bluesmaster Series - Volumes 1 & 2
15th Jan 2021
Matchbox commences an important archival project with the Bluesmaster series, with Volumes 1 & 2 focussing on country and ragtime blues, and great harp players from the period 1926-1934.
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Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 1: Country and Ragtime Blues
Papa Harvey Hull (vocals), Long "Cleve" Reed (vocals), Long Cleve Reed (vocals), Richard "Rabbit" Brown, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Bo Weavil Jackson, William Moore, Stephen Tarter, Harry Gay, Bayless Rose, Willie Walker, Sam Brooks, Peg Leg Howell, Eddie Anthony, Jim Hill (vocals), Alger "Texas" Alexander (vocals), Lonnie Johnson (guitar)
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Vinyl Round-Up - January 2021
14th Jan 2021
Highlights amongst recent and forthcoming vinyl releases include Itzhak Perlman's mid-1980s recordings of solo Bach, Anna Clyne's Mythologies, and Mariss Jansons's final concert from Carnegie Hall.
