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Brahms from Krystian Zimerman and other forthcoming highlights
29th Jan 2025
The Polish-Swiss pianist and friends present Brahms's Piano Quartets Nos. 2 and 3, with other stand-outs for the spring including Bach keyboard concertos from Beatrice Rana, a Ravel homage from Bertrand Chamayou, and the original version of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2025
28th Jan 2025
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by a 'lived-in and insightful' Mahler 7 from Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on BR Klassik.
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Stan Getz & Kenny Barron - People Time
28th Jan 2025
Stan Getz and Kenny Barron's People Time captures a poignant live jazz performance recorded months before Getz's death, documenting an extraordinary connection and virtuosic improvisation from two giants of jazz.
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New Sheet Music Titles - January 28th
28th Jan 2025
Piano music by Jeff Beal and Myslivecek, a collection of accessible and beautiful music for choir, collections of choral music by Peter Warlock, new titles in the SAM-Klang series, a critical edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'A Sea Symphony', and a choral sight reading resource for secondary choir students.
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Graham Ross on Palestrina premieres and more...
27th Jan 2025
The director of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge talks about his new album featuring five world-premiere recordings of sacred works by Palestrina.
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Simon Rattle conducts Mahler's Seventh Symphony
24th Jan 2025
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor continue their survey of Mahler’s symphonies with this live recording of the Seventh Symphony, replete with characterful, vivid woodwind playing and gloriously majestic contributions from the trumpets.
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Jacob Wutzke - You Better Bet
24th Jan 2025
Canadian drummer, Jacob Wutzke, pays homage to legendary icon Tony Williams in his second album, You Better Bet. With a balance of original compositions and some standard tunes from Williams, Wutzke delivers an album that captures the Blue Note sound with a modern approach.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2025
24th Jan 2025
Matt Berry steps away from the screen to bring us his next album Heard Noises with Acid Jazz, saxophonist Jakob Dinesen encourages listeners to take things easy in Slow Flow, and a tribute from Nicole Zuraitis to female American songwriters in siren songs volume 1.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2025
24th Jan 2025
Orff's Carmina Burana from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, a programme of music by refugee composers from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Busoni from Peter Donohoe, and Weinberg's The Passenger from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Teatro Real de Madrid.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025: Shortlist
23rd Jan 2025
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Christina Pluhar on Terra Mater
23rd Jan 2025
The director of L'Arpeggiata discusses the early music ensemble's 25th-birthday plans and their new album with Swedish mezzo Malena Ernman (released on Erato next Friday) which celebrates the natural world.
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New Music Book Publications - January 2025
22nd Jan 2025
A biography of John Dowland, a companion to Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, an exploration of the history of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw on stage and screen, a guide to the 2016 film musical La La Land, the reception history of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and an examination of the importance of the therapeutic power of music as medicine.
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Benny Goodman - Live At Carnegie Hall (1938)
22nd Jan 2025
Making musical history, Benny Goodman takes jazz to New York's Carnegie Hall in a live recording that changed the way people viewed the genre. It still swings today; much as it did in 1938.
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Jean-Christophe Groffe on Ensemble Thélème's 'All we get is Life'
21st Jan 2025
The director of the bold, adventurous early (???) music ensemble talks about his new album combining two Johns from centuries apart - Dowland and Cage.
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Alessandro Marangoni on Vittorio Rieti's piano concertos
20th Jan 2025
The pianist talks about his new album of world premiere recordings by the Italian-American composer Vittorio Rieti.
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Episode 56: Rufus Wainwright on Dream Requiem
19th Jan 2025
The ever-eclectic Rufus Wainwright chats with Matthew Ash about his new choral work, Dream Requiem, and some of the passions and influences that continue to inspire his diverse musical creativity.
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Seong-Jin Cho in Ravel's complete solo piano works
17th Jan 2025
Seong-Jin Cho has established himself firmly as a musician and pianist who uses his fluid technique to express a carefully chosen repertoire, placing the voice of the composer as the focus of his playing. His latest release proves to be a deft and subtle exploration of Ravel.
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Fabienne Ambuehl - Thrive
17th Jan 2025
Back with her second album, pianist and vocalist Fabienne Ambuehl dazzles with her fusion of jazz and folk on Thrive. With melodic and finely tuned arrangements, Ambuehl takes her love of poetry and contrasting surroundings to deliver a high quality album, supported by a dynamic ensemble.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2025
17th Jan 2025
Highlights this week include the sublime Fabienne Ambuehl presenting Thrive, the contemporary family trio in Madre Tierra, a diverse selection of styles in Oh People's Part Time Elegance, and Benjamin Lackner's return in his new quintet album Spindrift.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2025
17th Jan 2025
Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Le Consort, a 500th-birthday tribute to Palestrina from Stile Antico, Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem, and Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins from the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle.
