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David Fray on Baroque Encores and the Offrande Musicale festival
8th Dec 2025
The pianist talks about his new album of Baroque keyboard works performed on the piano, his inspirations, and the music festival he runs in his home region in the south-west of France.
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Baroque Encores
David Fray (piano)
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Solo Piano Jazz
8th Dec 2025
Solo jazz pianists, free from the constraints of a band, use their virtuosity and imagination to explore the boundless possibilities of improvised rhythm, harmony, and melody.
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Out Of/Into - Motion II
5th Dec 2025
Blue Note’s celebrated supergroup, created for their 85th anniversary, returns with their follow-up album featuring a collection of originals recorded during their anniversary tour.
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A Franco-Italian double Baroque Christmas
5th Dec 2025
Festive works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Marc-Antoine Charpentier offer tastes of two different Baroque Christmas flavours, with Giulio Prandi's Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri joined by a brief but glorious stellar turn from Carlotta Colombo and Christophe Rousset marshalling the Monteverdi Singers and English Baroque Soloists.
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Presto Music Awards - Book Winners 2025
5th Dec 2025
After our awards ceremony in Leamington Spa last night, we are delighted to announce our top five music book publications of 2025.
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Christmas New Releases 2025
5th Dec 2025
Festive releases from the Choir of St John's College Cambridge, the Miró Quartet, Il Pomo d'Oro, and the brass section of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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O Holy Night
Alexander Robson, Montague Tatnell (soprano), Arthur Cobb (soprano), Bryony Macleod-Jones (soprano), Alice Markham (vocalist), Theodore Horch (tenor), Alexander Semple (bass-baritone), Nicholas Garcia (soprano), Matthew Monaghan (vocalist), Anna Morgan (vocalist), William Collison (tenor), Garbhán McEnoy (tenor), Simon Hall (bass-baritone), John Moore (bass-baritone), Amelia Crichton-Stuart (soprano), Alexander Weiss (bass-baritone), George Henty (soprano), Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Gray
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New Release Round-Up - 5th December 2025
5th Dec 2025
This week presents new releases from Grammy winner Jacob Collier, and a final birthday performance from the late drummer Al Foster.
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Recordings of the Year 2025 - Our Top 10
4th Dec 2025
The winners revealed - ten fantastic recordings which really stood out from the crowd for us over the past twelve months, plus the results of our six special category awards...
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Presto Music Awards - Sheet Music Winners 2025
4th Dec 2025
We are excited to announce the winning sheet music publications for the annual Presto Music Awards! You can find out the winners here.
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Presto Music Awards - Jazz Winners 2025
4th Dec 2025
The results are in! Check out all the Jazz Presto Music award winners here.
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Gifts for... Baroque and Early Music fans
3rd Dec 2025
In the latest of our festive gift guides, we've selected some perfect presents for the early music fan in your life, from the latest albums, vinyl reissues and collections, to the best recent books about the music and society of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
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David Matthews & Jac van Steen on their musical friendship
2nd Dec 2025
The British composer and Dutch conductor discuss their various collaborations over the last three decades, including a new album of Matthews's Symphony No. 11, Flute Concerto and Symphonic Diptych from the opera Anna (released last month on SOMM).
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New Sheet Music Titles - 2nd December
2nd Dec 2025
A new title in the Masterpieces for Piano series, a vibrant collection of early-grade piano pieces by Arakelyan, Buxtehude's complete works for organ, and advanced flute and clarinet repertoire from Edition Peters.
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Jazzwise Editor Choices - December 2025/January 2026
1st Dec 2025
A double dose of the top editor picks from Jazzwise this week, as the jazz critics take a look at the best releases in their December and January edition!
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The Presto Chart - November 2025
1st Dec 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, headed by Víkingur Ólafsson's illuminating recital centring on Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 109 on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Presto Team Choices - November 2025
30th Nov 2025
Bracing Brahms from Kirill Petrenko in Berlin, Florence Price organ works from Tom Winpenny, the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel Symphony, and a compelling pasticcio on the Orpheus myth from Rolando Villazón, L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar.
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Michael Garrick - Late Autumn Sunshine
28th Nov 2025
A pioneer of British jazz during the 1960s and 1970s, pianist and MBE holder Michael Garrick shines in the previously unreleased BBC Radio 1 sessions from 1973 and 1978.
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A Cuban Christmas from The Sarahbanda
28th Nov 2025
Horn-player Sarah Willis and her Havana-based dance-band add spice and salsa to a host of seasonal favourites including an exuberant reimagining of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, with guest vocals from Carlos Calunga (of Buena Vista Social Club fame).
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New Release Round-Up - 28th November 2025
28th Nov 2025
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini and the Kammerorchester Basel, Bach from Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances, Ravel from the Nash Ensemble, and previously unreleased recordings by the late Radu Lupu.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th November 2025
28th Nov 2025
New releases this week includes drummer Billy Hart’s Multidirectional, guitarist Mark Lettieri’s At Studio 4 with the WDR Big Band, and the Whirlwind debut from Britta Virves.
