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Out to Lunch
20th Mar 2019
Matt revisits one of the true landmarks of modern jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
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Alexander Ullman on Russian ballet transcriptions
19th Mar 2019
The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, released last Friday on Rubicon.
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
Alexander Ullman (piano)
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Madeleine Mitchell on Grace Williams
18th Mar 2019
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell talks to David about her new album showcasing the rarely-heard works of the Welsh composer Grace Williams.
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New Music Book Publications - 18th March 2019
18th Mar 2019
Biographies of composers and performers as diverse as Jonas Kaufmann, Elton John, Rudolf Nureyev, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Arnold Schoenberg, an introduction to the world of opera, and a discussion of Liszt's piano transcriptions of orchestral music.
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The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
15th Mar 2019
Interstellar Messages (via London) from this brilliant trio.
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Isabelle Faust plays Bach Concertos
15th Mar 2019
The German violinist joins forces with oboist Xenia Löffler and Bernhard Forck's Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th March 2019
15th Mar 2019
New albums from Khatia Buniatishvili, Fazil Say and the Artemis Quartet, the final release in Iván Fischer’s Mahler series with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Elgar, Moeran and Vaughan Williams from the Barbirolli Society archives.
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Richard Watkins on The Romantic Horn
14th Mar 2019
The British horn-player talks to David about his new album of music by Beethoven, Strauss, Schumann, Scriabin and more with the pianist Julius Drake, out now on Signum Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2019 Choices
12th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month’s choices, headed by a peerless Schumann song-recital from German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber on Sony Classical.
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Quantity Discounts
12th Mar 2019
Ellena introduces a great new feature which has recently been added to the Presto Sheet Music website.
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Andreas Ottensamer on Blue Hour
11th Mar 2019
Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to David about his new album of Romantic clarinet works, with Yuja Wang and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Michael Gielen (1927-2019)
10th Mar 2019
The Austrian-German conductor, renowned for his interpretations of twentieth-century and contemporary music, has died aged 91.
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Philippe Jaroussky sings Cavalli
8th Mar 2019
The French countertenor leads Artaserse in a kaleidoscopic survey of the many and varied operas by the seventeenth-century Italian composer, shot through with the spirit of Venetian carnival.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th March 2019
8th Mar 2019
New albums from Andreas Ottensamer, Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Ian Bostridge, and the world premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, with the composer conducting and the dedicatee as soloist.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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Jacques Loussier (1934-2019)
7th Mar 2019
The French pianist and composer, best known for his trio’s million-selling string of albums re-interpreting the music of Bach in a jazz style, passed away on Monday aged 84.
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Jacques Loussier (1934-2019)
7th Mar 2019
The French pianist and composer, best known for his trio’s million-selling string of albums re-interpreting the music of Bach in a jazz style, passed away on Monday aged 84.
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019
Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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Peter Hurford (1930-2019)
4th Mar 2019
The British organist and composer, particularly renowned for his interpretations of Bach, has died aged 88.
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Presto Editor's Choices - February 2019
4th Mar 2019
Two contributions to this year’s Offenbach bicentenary by rising young French virtuosos, orchestral works by ‘the father of Scottish music’, and superb advocacy for three female composers from violinist Tasmin Little.
