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BBC Music Magazine - August 2025 Choices
29th Jul 2025
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by accounts of six cello sonatas which are 'in a class of their own' from Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and her husband Martin Helmchen on Alpha Classics.
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Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)
28th Jul 2025
The American musician, satirist and mathematician, whose songs included 'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park' and 'The Masochism Tango', has died at the age of 97
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Dame Cleo Laine (1927-2025)
25th Jul 2025
The pioneering British vocalist known for her four-octave range and widespread career across jazz, classical music, and theatre, has died at 97.
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Cleo Laine (vocalist), David McCallum (violin), Danny Levan (violin), David Katz (violin), Kenneth Essex (viola), Raymond Clarke (cello), Maria Korchinska (harp), Bert Courtley (trumpet), Ken Wray (trombone), Ronnie Ross (baritonesaxophone, altosaxophone, clarinet), Dave Lee (piano), Eric Dawson (bass), Kenny Clare (drumkit), Virgil Namless (altosaxophone), Bill Harrington (tenorsaxophone), Alex Leslie (baritonesaxophone), Dougie Roberts (trumpet), Dave Goldberg (guitar)
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Fabia Mantwill Orchestra - In.Sight
25th Jul 2025
Taking inspiration from rich arrangements and cinematic scores, the Berlin bandleader teams up with Snarky Puppy's Michael League and Greek composer Magdalini Giannikou for her most ambitious orchestral jazz project to date.
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Steve Reich, Big and Small
25th Jul 2025
An EP of two new works by Steve Reich, a new live recording of Reich and Hisaishi, and a huge, delicious box-set of Reich on Nonesuch.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th July 2025
25th Jul 2025
Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and more from Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, Ginastera from the Miró Quartet, a triptych of orchestral works by Liza Lim, and a nature-themed album from Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th July 2025
25th Jul 2025
This week’s new releases include the 1985 live recordings by the late Louis Moholo-Moholo, Larry Stabbins and Keith Tippett, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino’s collaborations with Keita Ogawa and Cécile McLorin Salvant, and a blend of jazz, soul and funk from Danny Widdicombe and Trichotomy.
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Sophie Pacini on Bittersweet
24th Jul 2025
In advance of her performance at the Oxford Piano Festival on Sunday evening, the Italian pianist discusses her mission to share music as a source of hope in women's shelters, and how this has influenced the programmes for this recital and her latest album, bittersweet.
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Sophie Pacini (piano)
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Early Music Round-Up - Summer 2025
23rd Jul 2025
Groundbreaking Corelli from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, a musical soundtrack to Henry VIII's travels around England from Ensemble Pro Victoria, the final glorious flowering of English Catholic polyphony from New College Oxford, Gabrieli-inspired Zieleński from the Wrocław Baroque Ensemble, and more.
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David Rendall (1948-2025)
23rd Jul 2025
The versatile British tenor, whose career was cut short by a stage accident in 2005, has died aged 76.
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Joe Farnsworth on The Big Room
23rd Jul 2025
The US drummer joins us to discuss his latest album, as well as the lessons he's learned from his collaborations with the jazz greats across the years.
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Joe Farnsworth (drums)
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New Sheet Music Titles - 22nd July 2025
22nd Jul 2025
New Henle Verlag editions, Anime music for piano, choral music by Eleanor Daley, June Nixon, Kim André Arnesen, and Cecilia McDowall, French Horn Basics, and three new Omni Music Publishing film scores.
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Béatrice Uria-Monzon (1963-2025)
22nd Jul 2025
The French dramatic mezzo-soprano, who was especially celebrated for her visceral yet nuanced interpretations of Carmen, has died aged 61 after a lengthy illness.
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Roger Norrington (1934-2025)
21st Jul 2025
The British conductor, known for his lifelong opposition to the over-use of vibrato in orchestral playing and for his passionate devotion to historically-informed performance in general, has died aged 91.
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Mark Williams on Be Still My Soul
21st Jul 2025
Magdalen College's Informator Choristarum (Director of Music) talks about his new album of favourite hymns with the choir, the role they play in the choir's daily life, and the trick to writing a really good descant.
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Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
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Polar Bear Vinyl Reissues
18th Jul 2025
Over twenty years since their debut, the experimental jazz ensemble release their first two albums on vinyl for the very first time - a strong reminder of their immense impact on the landscape of British jazz.
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Emma Smith - Bitter Orange
18th Jul 2025
The UK singer delves deep into the traditional world of vocal jazz, collating together classic melodies in an intimate and cabaret-style trio setting.
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Mozart's Clavichord from Alexander Gergelyfi and Georg Nigl
18th Jul 2025
The Austrian clavichordist and baritone explore a range of keyboard pieces, songs and arias on the soft-grained instrument where Mozart first conjured several of them into life in a remarkable recital recorded at the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg last spring.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th July 2025
18th Jul 2025
Messiaen from Yuja Wang and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Chloe Chua and the Singapore Symphony, solo Bach from Céline Frisch, and historical recordings of Poulenc playing his own music and that of Satie.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th July 2025
18th Jul 2025
From intimate vocals, to cross-cultural instrumentation and creative reimaginings, this week's new releases cover a whole range of styles and sounds.
