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BBC Music Magazine - March 2020 Choices
10th Mar 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, including Shostakovich from the late Mariss Jansons, Prokofiev from Steven Osborne, and Tchaikovsky from the Rolston String Quartet.
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ABRSM Core Classics
10th Mar 2020
ABRSM's series of piano books titled Core Classics consist of a collection of books of music from the piano canon, selected and graded by leading educationalists.
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New Music Book Publications - 9th March 2020
9th Mar 2020
A study of Mahler's Eighth Symphony; a biography of Mozart during his final decade in Vienna; Steven Isserlis's take on Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians; a discussion of music and the countryside; an examination of music's role during the Great War; a collection of lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; and the latest volumes in Faber & Faber's Greatest Hits series.
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Odaline de la Martinez on Ethel Smyth
8th Mar 2020
The Cuban-American conductor talks to David about the music of Ethel Smyth, four of whose songs she conducts on a new album from Somm.
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Two world premiere recordings of music by Thomas Adès
6th Mar 2020
Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performances of two of his own works: the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and Totentanz.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th March 2020
6th Mar 2020
Franck from Nikolai Lugansky, Bach Toccatas from Masaaki Suzuki, a Roman pilgrimage with The Sixteen, and a dramatic Lieder recital from Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper.
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McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
6th Mar 2020
It was a sad coincidence to hear of McCoy Tyner's passing shortly after posting this Classic Album Review of The Real McCoy. Thankfully Tyner's wonderful 60-year contribution to music lives on.
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Stanford String Quartets from the Dante Quartet
5th Mar 2020
David talks to violinist Krysia Osostowicz and musicologist Jeremy Dibble about the final volume in the Dante Quartet's Stanford cycle.
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Ruby Hughes on Clytemnestra
4th Mar 2020
The British soprano talks to Katherine about her new album featuring Rhian Samuel's Aeschylus-inspired monodrama and song-cycles by Mahler and Berg, out now on BIS.
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The Presto Chart - February 2020
3rd Mar 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's collection of French orchestral works on Chandos in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - February 2020
1st Mar 2020
A captivating collection of English song from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, a Spanish postcard from Offenbach, and a weird and wonderful Skalkottas anthology from Athens.
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John Eliot Gardiner concludes his cycle of Schumann symphonies with the LSO
28th Feb 2020
With sparkling, joyous performances of the Spring and Rhenish symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner and the LSO bring their Schumann cycle to an exuberant conclusion.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2020
28th Feb 2020
Schoenberg from Isabelle Faust and friends, Beethoven from the Capuçon Brothers and Frank Braley, Offenbach’s Spanish operetta Maître Péronilla, and an all-star Porgy & Bess from the Metropolitan Opera.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2020
28th Feb 2020
Anybody for some Georgian folk music crossed with microtonal jazz? What's that? I read your mind... then join us for the latest jazz new release round-up.
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Debussy & Rameau from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights
26th Feb 2020
An all-French programme from the award-winning Icelandic pianist, plus Vinci from Franco Fagioli, more Korngold from John Wilson, and Verdi’s Otello from Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Academia Nationale di Santa Cecilia.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2020
25th Feb 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, with Benjamin Grosvenor's accounts of the Chopin piano concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Elim Chan leading the way as Recording of the Month.
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Penelope Roskell: The Complete Pianist
25th Feb 2020
The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime’s experience of teaching, performing and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing.
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New Music Book Publications - 24th February 2020
24th Feb 2020
A guide to the music of Mendelssohn; discussions of the music of William Byrd, and Ernest Bloch; a biography of "Hitler's Pianist", Ernst Hanfstaengl; a social history of the drum kit; an exploration of symbolism in music of the Middle Ages; and volumes on jazz musicians Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington.
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Charles Hubert Parry's Judith from William Vann and the London Mozart Players
21st Feb 2020
Parry’s 1888 oratorio on the Apocryphal tale of an avenging Jewish widow emerges as a worthy successor to Mendelssohn’s Elijah in this gripping world premiere recording with Sarah Fox, Kathryn Rudge and Toby Spence.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st February 2020
21st Feb 2020
Chopin from Benjamin Grosvenor, Dvořák and Copland from Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, Farrenc from Christoph König and the Solistes Européens Luxembourg, and a boxed set of Karajan recordings from Decca.
