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Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood
18th Oct 2024
The talented young saxophonist’s latest Blue Note album is his first to feature vocal guests, delving into themes of identity, culture and the African-American experience.
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Immanuel Wilkins (altosaxophone, saxophone, vocalist, synthesizer), June McDoom (vocalist), Yaw Agyeman (vocalist), Ganavya (vocalist), Micah Thomas (piano, organ), Rick Rosato (bass), Kweku Sumbry (drumkit), Esi Sumbry (vocalist), Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocalist), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Chris Dave (drumkit)
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Baroque Concertos from Alison Balsom
18th Oct 2024
Alison Balsom returns to the Baroque with a new collection of concerto adaptations by Simon Wright, and with the collaboration of Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock's Players.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2024
18th Oct 2024
This week's highlights include albums from Aaron Parks, Josephine Davies, Pentadox, Sidsel Endresen, Jan Bang, and Erik Honore, Guy Davis, and vinyl reissues for Sun Ra, Donald Byrd, and Art Blakey.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2024
18th Oct 2024
Music from the worlds of film, TV and gaming from Ray Chen, Bach albums from Alexandre Tharaud & Víkingur Ólafsson, orchestral works by Grace Williams, and a tribute to Cornélie Falcon from Aleksandra Kurzak.
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Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
17th Oct 2024
The third collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans produced the masterly Sketches of Spain, an expansive album with flavours of flamenco and classical orchestration, and still regarded as a transformative album in jazz history.
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Victoria Proudler: Piano Grades are Go!
17th Oct 2024
Victoria Proudler talks about her series 'Piano Grades are Go!', and offers advice on taking music examinations. Read the full interview here.
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Roberto Alagna at 60
16th Oct 2024
The French-Sicilian tenor discusses his sixtieth-birthday album on Aparté, learning his craft in Paris cabaret clubs, being Michael Jackson's warm-up act, and why he regrets not getting started on Wagner earlier in his career...
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New Music Book Publications - 16th October 2024
16th Oct 2024
A personal reflection on the music of Beethoven from John Suchet, a paperback edition of a book exploring the young Mozart's time in Italy, a new edition of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart's music from Breitkopf & Härtel, a discussion of the stories behind beloved Christmas carols, and an analysis of the soundtrack from the popular film, 'Saturday Night Fever'.
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Episode 54: Manfred Honeck on Bruckner
15th Oct 2024
Our guest contributor Rob Cowan speaks to the Austrian conductor about his recent recording of Symphony No. 7 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, his long-standing relationship with Bruckner’s music, and the influence of the countryside & religion on the composer's musical imagination.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2024 Choices
14th Oct 2024
Katherine introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a recording you'll want to sit down and savour' from Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake on Chandos, featuring arrangements of works by Robert and Clara Schumann.
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Sheet Music Downloads from Faber Music now available!
14th Oct 2024
We are pleased to announce that Presto Music now offers digital downloads from Faber Music, Alfred Music, Edition Peters, and Manners McDade. Find out more.
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Samara Joy - Portrait
11th Oct 2024
With her most intimate collection of songs to date, the three-time Grammy Award-winning American chanteuse unveils a captivating new album that, for the first time, combines timeless standards with original songwriting.
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Samara Joy (vocalist), Jason Charos (trumpet, flugelhorn, recordingarranger), David Mason (altosaxophone, flute, recordingarranger), Kendric McCallister (tenorsaxophone, recordingarranger), Donavan Austin (trombone, recordingarranger), Conor Rohrer (piano), Felix Moseholm (bass), Evan Sherman (drumkit, recordingarranger)
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2024
11th Oct 2024
This week’s jazz releases include Immanuel Wilkins exploring themes of heritage, whilst Ashley Henry blends introspective lyrics and lush jazz melodies. Ilario Ferrari's offers a fusion of styles, Joe Sanders gives us genre-blending compositions, and there's a refreshing reunion between Oscar Peterson and Herb Ellis.
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Immanuel Wilkins (altosaxophone, saxophone, vocalist, synthesizer), June McDoom (vocalist), Yaw Agyeman (vocalist), Ganavya (vocalist), Micah Thomas (piano, organ), Rick Rosato (bass), Kweku Sumbry (drumkit), Esi Sumbry (vocalist), Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocalist), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Chris Dave (drumkit)
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Daniil Trifonov's (North) American Story
11th Oct 2024
The Russian pianist presents a dazzling kaleidoscope of North American music, with a variety of genres and styles covering minimalism, jazz, film music, and concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2024
11th Oct 2024
Schoenberg from Rafael Payare in Montreal, Elgar and Walton from Gautier Capuçon, the LSO and Antonio Pappano, zarzuela from Juan Diego Flórez, & Chopin, Ravel and Ligeti from Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (winner of this year's Leeds Piano Competition).
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Leif Segerstam (1944-2024)
10th Oct 2024
The Finnish conductor, composer and multi-instrumentalist Leif Segerstam has died at the age of 80.
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Jazz at Massey Hall with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, & Charles Mingus
10th Oct 2024
Billed as ‘The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever’ Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach came together for one night only. Recorded live in Toronto at Massey Hall, on May 15th 1953, the quintet were captured into jazz folklore. A historic performance that featured titans of the jazz world, it would be the first and last time this quintet shared the stage.
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Lawrence Brownlee on Donizetti's songs
9th Oct 2024
The American tenor introduces the inaugural volume of Opera Rara's mammoth Donizetti Song Project, which sees him joining forces with Carlo Rizzi to revive unpublished and previously-unrecorded songs - several of them written for the composer's friends to sing at parties...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2024
8th Oct 2024
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a 'magnificent addition' to the Elgar Violin Concerto discography courtesy of Vilde Frang, Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on Warner Classics.
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New Sheet Music Titles - October 8th
8th Oct 2024
Edition Peters' 'Graded Piano Anthologies', a collection of jazz piano duets, a variety of new Henle Verlag publications, Nigel Kennedy's 'Songs My Mother Never Taught Me', and 'Open String Tunes' for beginner violinists.
