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Tasmin Little - a personal retrospective
11th Apr 2019
As the British violinist prepares for retirement from the concert platform, she talks us through some personal highlights from her extensive discography...
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019 - The Winners!
10th Apr 2019
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Jury Awards...
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Lise Davidsen's Decca debut and other forthcoming highlights
10th Apr 2019
A magnificent debut album of Wagner and Strauss from the Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano, plus new releases from Michael Fabiano, Steven Osborne, Rachel Podger and Magdalena Kožená.
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Iestyn Davies on Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell
9th Apr 2019
The countertenor talks to David about his new album with Fretwork, playing off the juxtaposition of baroque works by Henry Purcell with works by contemporary composer Michael Nyman.
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Breitkopf & Härtel 300th Anniversary Celebration
9th Apr 2019
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the oldest music publisher in the world, Breitkopf & Härtel. Find out more about the company and their new publications here.
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Clare Hammond on Mysliveček
7th Apr 2019
The British pianist and Royal Philharmonic Society Award-winner talks to Katherine about reconstructing and recording the piano concertos of the Czech composer with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan.
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Jazz New Releases Roundup - 5th April 2019
5th Apr 2019
A quick look at some of the week's jazz new releases, and a varied bunch it is too...
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Jordi Savall directs JS Bach's Markus Passion
5th Apr 2019
David listens to a newly-reconstructed version of JS Bach's lost St Mark Passion, from Jordi Savall and the Capella Reial de Catalunya.
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Orbit Folks
5th Apr 2019
Bright and breezy jazz fusions on the latest album from globetrotting bassist Martijn Vanbuel and his group Orbit Folks.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2019
5th Apr 2019
New albums from Christian Thielemann, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt, plus a collection of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Berlioz recordings.
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Kinan Azmeh on Uneven Sky
4th Apr 2019
Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh talks to David about his new double album showcasing his own compositions and those of three other composers from his native country.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2019
3rd Apr 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 which 'tells you not just how much Iván Fischer loves this work but how he loves it unconditionally'.
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Ellington at Newport 1956
3rd Apr 2019
Let us journey back to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, to witness a demoralised Ellington Band find its mojo in realtime, thanks to a storming Paul Gonsalves solo that runs for 27 choruses, and caused a mini-riot.
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Bojan Čičić on Giovanni Giornovich
2nd Apr 2019
The Croatian violinist talks to Katherine about his recent recording of the volatile violinist-composer's 'London' concertos, released on Delphian last Friday.
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New Music Book Publications - 1st April 2019
1st Apr 2019
A guide to the life and works of Janáček, a study of Stravinsky's time spent living in the USA, an analysis of the Requiem by Tomás Luis de Victoria, books on Schenkerian analysis and music research, a discussion of the social history of jazz, and a collection of essays on popular American music from Tin Pan Alley to to hip hop.
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The Presto Chart - March 2019
1st Apr 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Isabelle Faust's Bach violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - March 2019
31st Mar 2019
Fazil Say’s appropriately epic Troy Sonata, the Italian version of Moniuszko’s Halka, Richard Rodney Bennett’s vivid depiction of the signs of the zodiac, and a glorious Paris recital from Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper.
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Daniel Herskedal - Voyage
29th Mar 2019
Matt takes a Voyage with Daniel Herskedal, a vivid series of seafaring tone poems for tuba, bass trumpet, viola, oud, piano and bass.
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Martyn Brabbins conducts Elgar's Caractacus
29th Mar 2019
Martyn Brabbins conducts the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Orchestra of Opera North in a stirring new recording of Elgar's rarely-performed cantata, Caractacus.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2019
29th Mar 2019
New albums from Yvgeny Sudbin, Bojan Čičić, Eric Le Sage, and Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, plus a bicentenary tribute to Clara Schumann from Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
