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Christmas Jazz New Releases 2025
19th Dec 2025
With less than one week until Christmas, we collate the best new Christmas jazz releases of this year!
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Winter 2025
18th Dec 2025
In our latest round-up of contemporary music releases, Ben celebrates the work of two nonagenarians, explores the colour spectrum through the orchestra, enjoys pictorial British chamber music, and find the twenty-first-century symphony to be in rude health.
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Höfner: Tomorrow Never Knows
18th Dec 2025
Höfner bass guitars precariously sit at a crossroads into late 2025; still iconic and in demand, but with the company now in German insolvency proceedings that cast a real and serious doubt on its future ownership and structure.
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Gordon Goodwin (1954-2025)
18th Dec 2025
Gordon Goodwin, influential American saxophonist and famous bandleader of Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, has died aged seventy.
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Steve Lodder on 2 Sorts Of 3
17th Dec 2025
The jazz pianist discusses his latest project, combining two trios (plugged and unplugged) into one album.
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2 Sorts of 3
Steve Lodder
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Jean Rondeau on Louis Couperin
17th Dec 2025
The French harpsichordist talks about his massive project, released in November, to record the complete works of the founder of the Couperin dynasty.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2025
16th Dec 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a studio recording of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from Catania with a 'tremendous' Lisette Oropesa in the title-role and Donizetti specialist Fabrizio Maria Carminati at the helm.
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It's a Violin Thing with Ailbhe McDonagh
16th Dec 2025
Irish cellist Ailbhe McDonagh is an internationally recognised musician, composer, and recording artist. We recently spoke with Ailbhe about her latest publication, It's a Violin Thing.
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New Sheet Music Titles - 16th December
16th Dec 2025
Piano music to raise money for PalMusicUK and Musicians Without Borders, John Rutter's Bird Songs, new music theory publications from Trinity College London, and Bärenreiter editions of works by Tartini, Blodek, and Kalabis.
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Owain Park on Radiant Dawn
15th Dec 2025
The director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new album, which sees them collaborating with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd.
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Radiant Dawn
Matilda Lloyd (trumpet), The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
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Seeds of Hope: Charity Fundraising Publication
12th Dec 2025
Seeds of Hope brings together a group of twenty-two renowned international composers to raise funds for music charities working with children in Palestine and those caught up in conflict around the world. Find out more.
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Alison Mathews: Seeds of Hope
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Carl Fischer: Orchestral & Large Ensemble Music
12th Dec 2025
Browse our selection of forty Carl Fischer, Leshnoff Publishing, Merion Music, Pembroke Music, Triton Press & Tenuto Publications, and Theodore Presser orchestral repertoire recommendations.
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Orchestral Works by Max Reger from Jaime Martín and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra
12th Dec 2025
Released back in August, this album (one of our Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2025) presents a marvellously evocative and captivating account of two orchestral works by Max Reger: the Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128, and the Romantic Suite, Op. 125.
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Adam Forkelid - Dreams
12th Dec 2025
A staple of the Scandinavian jazz scene, the pianist presents his latest album: a collection of solo piano improvisations and song sketches taken from his live performance at Krematoriet.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th December 2025
12th Dec 2025
A Mozart Requiem with a difference from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, André Tchaikowsky from Peter Jablonski, Mahler from Gianandrea Noseda in Washington, and Chopin & Scriabin from Mikhail Pletnev.
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Requiem: Mozart's Death in Words and Music
F. Murray Abraham, Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo), Ben Bliss (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass); Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Choir, The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Manfred Honeck
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New Release Round-Up - 12th December 2025
12th Dec 2025
The Köln Concert celebrates fifty years with a special vinyl edition, pianist Tim Richards delivers his latest trio album, and this week also welcomes the release of multiple live recordings.
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Piers Connor Kennedy on Nowel el el
11th Dec 2025
The composer and singer talks about his new works featured on Ensemble Pro Victoria's latest album, Nowel.
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Nowel: Advent & Beyond
Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward
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James Alexander Thompson & Janette Mason on Piano Hive
11th Dec 2025
We have just added the Piano Hive digital catalogue to our website. We recently spoke with Piano Hive founders James Alexander Thompson and Janette Mason about their publications.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2025 Choices
9th Dec 2025
Chris introduces this issue's selection, headed by a 'mesmerising and disturbing' Mahler recital from mezzo Anna Lucia Richter with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln under Jordan de Souza on Myrios.
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Streaming gift vouchers available now
8th Dec 2025
Presto Music launches Streaming Gift Vouchers – the perfect present for music lovers - available in durations of 3, 6 and 12 months.
