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New Release Round-Up - 23rd August 2019
23rd Aug 2019
New albums from Antoine Tamestit, Ivo Pogorelich, Johannes Moser and Annelien Van Wauwe, plus a celebration of Vladimir Horowitz’s Carnegie Hall comeback in 1965.
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Long Yu on Gateways
22nd Aug 2019
The conductor talks to David about his new album with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - marking the orchestra's signing to Deutsche Grammophon with a programme of Russian- and Chinese- related works, including two by Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.
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Jelly Roll Morton
21st Aug 2019
Matt explores Jelly Roll Morton's recordings both as a solo pianist and with the Red Hot Peppers group.
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Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano
21st Aug 2019
Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano is a beautifully produced collection of some of Radiohead's best-loved songs, arranged for intermediate to advanced piano solo with lyrics, by YouTube pianist Josh Cohen. This band-approved book features a specially designed cover and mono prints throughout from Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood.
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Quatuor Ébène's Beethoven odyssey and other forthcoming highlights
20th Aug 2019
The French quartet embark on a world tour and series of live recordings of the complete string quartets to mark the composer’s upcoming 250th birthday, plus anniversary Berlioz from John Nelson, and a triptych of ‘sea pictures’ from Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
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New Music Book Publications - 19th August 2019
19th Aug 2019
A critical biography of Shostakovich; conversations with The Sixteen's musical director, Harry Christophers; an examination of the influence of Mahler on the music of Aaron Copland; the history of electronic music; a study of Andy Kirk and his jazz band, Clouds of Joy; and music diaries for 2020 from Boosey & Hawkes.
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Stanford Ceremonial Works from Howard Shelley and the Ulster Orchestra
16th Aug 2019
Pomp and circumstance aplenty in A Song of Agincourt and the 'Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue' Verdun, and ethereal magic from the ladies of Codetta chamber choir in Fairy Day.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019
Debut solo albums from Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov and award-winning South African tenor Levy Sekgapane, and music by Korngold for stage and screen.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019
A couple of standout vocal releases from Jazzmeia Horn and Bryony Jarman-Pinto are the highlights this week. Matt also revisits some not-strictly-jazz but still improvised releases that remind him of his youth.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2019
14th Aug 2019
Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by ‘a piano recording that really plucks at the heart-strings’ - Denis Kozhukhin's selections of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte on Pentatone.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2019
13th Aug 2019
Semyon Bychkov’s Tchaikovsky Project reaches completion, plus a mammoth celebration of George Szell in Cleveland, and previously unreleased recordings documenting Vladimir Horowitz’s 1965 comeback at Carnegie Hall.
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Ivan Ilić on Stegmann's transcriptions of Haydn
12th Aug 2019
The Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about discovering and recording solo piano arrangements of Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44 by Carl David Stegmann, a conductor, composer and tenor who sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni.
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Ivan Ilić (piano)
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Cecilia Bartoli sparkles as Rossini's 'Italiana in Algeri'
9th Aug 2019
The Roman mezzo makes her role-debut as the feisty feminist Isabella in Rossini's culture-clash comedy, filmed last year at the Salzburg Festival and directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier.
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Cecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly) Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
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New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019
9th Aug 2019
World premiere recordings of music by Ned Rorem, Dan Locklair and Airat Ichmouratov, plus vintage Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon and Helen Watts from the Australian Eloquence archives.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019
9th Aug 2019
Stopping off in NY for some Latin jazz and R&B, we then head towards Scandinavia for Norwegian double bass and Swedish folk mixed with jazz.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2019 Choices
7th Aug 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Vox Luminis, the Jerusalem Quartet, Elizabeth Kenny, Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, and Alamire.
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Jon Batiste - Anatomy of Angels
7th Aug 2019
Anyone who has seen 'The Late Show' will recognise Jon Batiste, but there is much more to him than being Stephen Colbert's musical side-kick, as he proves on the engrossing live set from New York's Village Vanguard.
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Archie Shepp on Impulse!
7th Aug 2019
One of the great saxophonists of the sixties, Archie Shepp made some of the most exciting and politicised recordings of the era, in a series of albums that documented the civil rights struggle.
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A Soirée with Magdalena Kožená & Simon Rattle and other forthcoming highlights
6th Aug 2019
Ravel, Dvořák, Stravinsky and more from the Czech mezzo and family/friends, plus Chopin from Pavel Kolesnikov, Beethoven from Christian Tetzlaff and Jan Lisiecki, Schubert from Francesco Piemontesi, and Mozart from Daniel Behle.
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David Owen Norris on Mozart in the Nineteenth-Century Drawing-Room
5th Aug 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of Hummel, Cramer and Clementi’s arrangements of Mozart symphonies and overtures for ‘Jupiter Ensemble’ (flute, violin, cello and piano), out now on Hyperion.
