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Charlie Parker - Early Recordings
7th Jun 2019
Charlie Parker's game changing sessions heralded the arrival of bebop and remained unsurpassed to this day... in Matt's opinion anyway. Read the full article to find out why.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th June 2019
7th Jun 2019
New recordings from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, Richard and Mika Stoltzman, Swedish chamber ensemble O/Modərnt, and the final instalment of the Hallé’s Ring Cycle under Sir Mark Elder, with Simon O’Neill as Siegfried.
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Mark Williams on The Pillar of the Cloud
6th Jun 2019
Director of Music Mark Williams talks to David about his new album with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, surveying music from the past five centuries connected to the city.
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Martin James Bartlett on Love and Death
5th Jun 2019
The BBC Young Musician of the Year winner talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Warner, which takes its title from a work by Granados and also features music by Bach, Schumann, Liszt and Prokofiev.
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Martin James Bartlett (piano)
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The Presto Chart - May 2019
3rd Jun 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's recording of Weinberg with Kremerata Baltica and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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Mosambique - Big City Moves
3rd Jun 2019
This exciting young quintet from Norway release a memorable album of jazz fusion with tongue-firmly in cheek.
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Presto Editor's Choices - May 2019
1st Jun 2019
An almost indecently seductive French song programme from Sandrine Piau, a thought-provoking debut album from young British pianist Martin James Bartlett, and a rare outing for Granados’s one-act opera Goyescas, which crackles with Mediterranean heat.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 31st May 2019
31st May 2019
Matt troughs through the week’s jazz new releases, listening to some so you don’t have to, but plenty so you hopefully do!
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Stan Getz - Focus
31st May 2019
Stan Getz's Focus gets a reappraisal, that rare thing, a jazz with strings album that challenges, thanks to Eddie Sauter's sophisticated arrangements.
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss
31st May 2019
The robust young Norwegian soprano thrills in scenes from Tannhäuser and Ariadne auf Naxos, and Strauss's Four Last Songs.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st May 2019
31st May 2019
New recordings from Sandrine Piau, Angela Hewitt, Francesco Piemontesi, Trio Zimmermann, and Sakari Oramo, plus the world premiere DVD release of Samuel Barber's 1958 opera Vanessa.
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Xavier Sabata on L'Alessandro amante
30th May 2019
Ahead of his appearance as Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina at the Barbican tomorrow evening, the Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about his recent album exploring baroque representations of Alexander the Great.
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Gerald Finley on Kaija Saariaho's True Fire
29th May 2019
The bass-baritone talks to Katherine about recording the Finnish composer's song-cycle on texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish, written for him in 2014 and released on Ondine earlier this month.
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Karl Jenkins: Piano
28th May 2019
To celebrate his 75th birthday this year, prolific composer Sir Karl Jenkins has released a new album with Decca titled Karl Jenkins: Piano. To go alongside the album, Boosey & Hawkes have published a book of sheet music featuring all of the pieces from the album.
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Lise Davidsen on Wagner & Strauss
27th May 2019
The Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano discusses her career so far and her debut album on Decca, out this Friday.
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New Music Book Publications - 27th May 2019
27th May 2019
A discussion of the relationship between faith and music; analysis of the compositions of nineteenth-century violin virtuoso, Joseph Joachim; an examination of the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann; and books about Elton John in celebration of Rocketman, the new film starring Taron Egerton.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 24th May 2019
24th May 2019
Matt bends an ear towards some of this week's jazz related releases, from the slowcore guitar of Chris Brokaw, through the upbeat soul jazz of Beatifik to Paolo Russo's Mediterranean musings.
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Alexi Tuomarila Trio - Sphere
24th May 2019
Alexi Tuomarila and his group prove there is plenty of scope of innovation in the jazz piano trio, forging their own unique sound on Sphere.
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The final instalment of Andrew Manze's Vaughan Williams cycle with the Liverpool Philharmonic
24th May 2019
Andrew Manze and the Liverpool Philharmonic round off their Vaughan Williams series with vivid accounts of the majestic seventh and pensive ninth symphonies.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th May 2019
24th May 2019
New releases from Korean-born violinist Joo Yeon Sir, James Ehnes and Sir Andrew Davis, and Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus a landmark Gioconda from the archives.
