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New Sheet Music Titles - 24th June
24th Jun 2025
Lang Lang Piano Book Encore Edition, The Faber Music Pop Piano Anthology, new piano pedagogy publications, ABRSM's Recorder Mix, and new titles from Breitkopf & Härtel.
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Christopher Gray on Lament and Liberation
23rd Jun 2025
The Music Director of St John's College Cambridge talks about his first album with the choir - built around James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and Joanna Marsh's Echoes in Time.
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Kasper Rietkerk & Darius Brubeck on The Happy Worrier
20th Jun 2025
Both the talented saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk and the legendary Darius Brubeck join Presto to discuss the Brubeck Living Legacy Prize and the upcoming release of Rietkerk’s album The Happy Worrier.
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GoGo Penguin - Necessary Fictions
20th Jun 2025
In keeping with their signature genre-defying sound the pioneering jazz trio return with their latest album, leaning further into the use of modular synthesisers and making this their most collaborative project yet.
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Russian cello sonatas from Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen
20th Jun 2025
The German wife-and-husband duo present a magnificent double album of six cello sonatas from Russian and Soviet composers, composed between the 1890s and 1970s.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th June 2025
20th Jun 2025
Haydn from Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Biber from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum from Pablo Heras-Casado in Freiburg, and fin de siècle French music from the Neave Trio.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th June 2025
20th Jun 2025
From electric sounds to the acoustic blues, as well as reimaginings of Gershwin and jazz quartets, this week has got plenty of new releases to suit every jazz fan.
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Yamaha TAG3C Trans-Acoustic: Adjourn the Analogue Acoustic
19th Jun 2025
Yamaha has been a titan in the guitar world since the 1940s, blending Japanese precision with a knack for innovation that’s made their acoustics a go-to for everyone from campfire strummers to face-melting solo magicians.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2025 Choices
18th Jun 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard's recording of his long-term friend György Kurtág's Játékok on Pentatone.
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Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing: But Not For Me
18th Jun 2025
Recorded at Chicago’s Pershing Lounge in 1958 with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier, the album features eight tracks selected from forty-three recorded that night and showcases Jamal’s minimalist style and dynamic trio interplay.
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Alfred Brendel (1931-2025)
17th Jun 2025
The legendary Czech-born Austrian pianist, writer, poet and artist has died at the age of 94, surrounded by family at his home in Hampstead Heath.
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New Music Book Publications - June 2025
17th Jun 2025
A selection of Hector Berlioz's music criticism, a paperback edition of a book exploring Rachmaninoff's life after moving to the USA, books on composers including Brahms, Purcell, Manuel de Falla and Margaret Bonds, an examination of the musicals of Cole Porter, a survey of the classical concert scene in Nazi Germany, plus a selection of recent music fiction books by Martha Jean Johnson, Michael Ball, and Will Fraser.
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Edward Gardner on the LPO, Tippett, and Britten
17th Jun 2025
The British conductor talks about his memories of conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the very first time, why he chose an opera by Tippett for his first concert as their Principal Conductor back in 2021, and his new album of works by Benjamin Britten.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Via Crucis
16th Jun 2025
The Norwegian pianist talks to Matthew Ash about the challenges and unique beauty of Via Crucis, his long relationship with it and the pieces he chose to complete the programme.
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Episode 58: Antal Doráti in London, with producer Thomas Fine
14th Jun 2025
Two new box sets celebrate Antal Doráti’s London recordings for Mercury in the 1950s and ’60s. Rob Cowan is joined by producer and remastering engineer Thomas Fine, whose parents recorded the original sessions, to discuss some of the many highlights in the sets.
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Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season
13th Jun 2025
The harpist continues to push boundaries and promote her instrument in the world of jazz, featuring Alice Coltrane's very own harp on her latest release.
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Brandee Younger (harp), Rashaan Carter (bass), Allan Mednard (drum), Shabaka (flute, clarinet), Makaya McCraven (drum, percussion), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Courtney Bryan (piano, rhodes), Ele Howell (drum), Niia (vocalist), Josh Johnson (saxophone)
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Furtwängler from Neeme Järvi
13th Jun 2025
At the helm of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Järvi family patriarch makes a convincing case for the German conductor's shapeshifting Symphony No. 2, completed in Switzerland shortly after he fled Nazi Germany in 1945.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th June 2025
13th Jun 2025
A Pan-European programme from La Serenissima, Stravinsky and Ravel from Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, Bach from Francesco Tristano, and Brahms's clarinet sonatas (in new orchestrations by Stephan Koncz) from Daniel Ottensamer and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th June 2025
13th Jun 2025
New releases this week include Grammy-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater in collaboration with jazz piano legend Bill Charlap, reimagined works of classical music giants by Haggai Cohen-Milo, and things get experimental with Jozef Dumoulin, Tony Malaby and Samuel Ber.
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Haggai Cohen-Milo on GRAVITATIONS
12th Jun 2025
The double bassist and composer discusses his transformations of classical works into something entirely original, with jazz at its heart.
