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Isata Kanneh-Mason on Clara Schumann
5th Jul 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about her debut solo recording, released to commemorate Schumann's bicentenary this year.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019
New releases from Delphine Galou, Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Maxim Vengerov, plus landmark accounts of Delius’s Sea Drift and Weber’s Euryanthe from the archives.
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Dave Douglas on Devotion and The Sacred Harp
5th Jul 2019
Matt speaks to NY based trumpeter Dave Douglas about his new album Devotion, a collaboration with pianist Uri Caine and legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019
Matt assess some of the week's new releases, whilst simultaneously being locked into a life-or-death struggle to revive a neglected pot plant... all through the healing power of jazz.
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Carole Cerasi on Couperin
4th Jul 2019
The renowned harpsichordist and French Baroque specialist Carole Cerasi talks to David about her new complete recording of the harpsichord works of François Couperin.
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The Presto Chart - June 2019
2nd Jul 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Lise Davidsen's debut album of Wagner and Strauss on Decca in first place...
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Steve Davis - Correlations
2nd Jul 2019
A fine new album from trombonist Steve Davis and his sextet, mainly featuring his own instantly catchy compositions, some of which could become jazz favourites.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2019
1st Jul 2019
Intensely dramatic Janáček from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends, an operatic oratorio on The Fall of Man by Josef Mysliveček, and an intriguing debut album of chamber works from octogenarian composer Erika Fox.
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Alexandre Kantorow wins at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition
28th Jun 2019
The 22-year-old Frenchman was announced as this year's victor in the piano category last night, following eloquent performances of Tchaikovsky's and Brahms's Second Concertos in his final round earlier this week.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 28 June 2019
28th Jun 2019
A tribute to the 'Jazz Baroness', a trip back to 52nd Street, Ryan Keberle's interpretation of a thirties poem, Jeanie Barton's Moment of Clarity, more Hammond madness, and cutting edge cello abstractions... it's all happenin' over here folks!
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Offenbach's La Périchole from Marc Minkowski
28th Jun 2019
One of the composer’s great champions celebrates last week’s bicentenary in style with the first period-instrument recording of this 1868 opéra bouffe about a couple of down-at-heel street-performers who are coerced into a drunken sham marriage.
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Offenbach: La Périchole
Aude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa) Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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The Atomic Mr. Basie
27th Jun 2019
Matt explores the origins behind the Count Basie Band's 1957 comeback album The Atomic Mr. Basie, a big band tour de force with state of the art compositions by Neal Hefti... the man who would go on to write the Batman theme!
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Guy Johnston & Jonathan Clinch on the Howells Cello Concerto
27th Jun 2019
David talks to cellist Guy Johnston and musicologist Jonathan Clinch about Howells's Cello Concerto - recently reconstructed by Clinch, recorded by Johnston and released on the King's College label.
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Fenella Humphreys on Max Richter
25th Jun 2019
The British violinist talks to Katherine about her new recording of The Four Seasons Recomposed, out this Friday on Rubicon.
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New Music Book Publications - 24th June 2019
24th Jun 2019
The first in-depth analysis of the music of Scottish composer James MacMillan; an examination of Sir Henry Wood's role in the English revival of the music of JS Bach; a biography of eighteenth-century stage star Kitty Clive; and a dissection of anti-German sentiment in America during World War I in relation to the treatment of conductor Karl Muck.
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Ruud Breuls & Simon Rigter Quintet
24th Jun 2019
A solid hard bop release from the Ruud Breuls & Simon Rigter Quintet, featuring the cream of the crop of Dutch jazzmen playing original material composed by the group.
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Rise and Shine
Ruud Breuls & Simon Rigter Quintet
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
Matt vents spleen over boring cover artwork, and also finds time to check out the latest releases, and a diverse bunch they are too.
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The Fellini Album - The Film Music of Nino Rota
21st Jun 2019
Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Chailly enchant and delight in an album celebrating the legendary and prolific collaboration between director Federico Fellini and composer Nino Rota.
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The Fellini Album
Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
