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Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert
12th Apr 2024
Only previously released in unofficial capacities, this definitive recording of a 1971 benefit concert features an all-star lineup of spiritual jazz heroes.
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Lost Majesty - the Monteverdian music of George Jeffreys
11th Apr 2024
Musicologist Jonathan Wainwright and organist William Whitehead talk about the new album from Solomon's Knot that features the unusual music of George Jeffreys - drawing heavily on the influence of Monteverdi and reflecting the distracted times of the English Civil War.
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Cordoba Protégé C1 Matiz
11th Apr 2024
The Cordoba Protégé C1 Matiz; a classical guitar that’s perfectly designed for beginner & intermediate players seeking an instrument that is both visually striking and tonally pleasing.
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English Baroque treasures from Rachel Podger and other forthcoming highlights
10th Apr 2024
Brecon Baroque explore 17th- and 18th-century English and Scottish chamber music, with other spring highlights including a sparkling album of Schubert Ländler from Pierre-Laurent Aimard and a wide-ranging and thought-provoking second album from Heloïse Werner.
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Evan Parker at 80
10th Apr 2024
As the master improviser celebrates his oaken jubilee, we explore some highlights from his iconoclastic career.
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2024 Choices
9th Apr 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of Orazio Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus which 'engulfs the senses' from I Fagiolini on Coro.
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Marin Alsop on John Adams
8th Apr 2024
The conductor talks about her latest album on Naxos of three virtuosic orchestral pieces by John Adams with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, including the premiere recording of a work dedicated to her.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - April 2024
8th Apr 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the April 2024 issue include new music from Melissa Aldana, Doncaster Jazz Alumni, Flo & The Murmurs, Ruth Goller, James Brandon Lewis, Kjetil Mulelid, Chris Potter and Trio HLK, as well as archive and reissue releases from Alice Coltrane, Roberta Flack, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Osmar Milito and Tom Zé.
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A new Bach cantata project from Les Arts Florissants
5th Apr 2024
Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants kick off a new project aimed at retracing the steps of Bach's life - focusing on his early work in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, still barely out of his teens.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2024
5th Apr 2024
Mozart piano sonatas from Yundi, Russian Variations from Piers Lane, Nielsen from Edward Gardner in Bergen, and John Adams from Marin Alsop in Vienna.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2024
5th Apr 2024
New music from a hard-bop supergroup, a humanistic piano trio, rustic Nordic fiddle jazz, sax-led reflections tinged with a European aesthetic and some '80s Nina...
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New Sheet Music Titles - April 9th
5th Apr 2024
Intermediate French Favorites for piano; a duet collection by Naoko Ikeda; selected art songs by Tchaikovsky; Spohr's Fantasia for harp; Paganini's Terzetto M.S. 69; orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Haydn and Bologne; and Music Theory for Kids.
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Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi - Altera Vita
5th Apr 2024
An engrossing ambiance, beautiful pieces and spirited performances make for a recording augmented with a certain otherworldliness from these two close-knit musical partners.
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Dani Howard on writing for orchestra
4th Apr 2024
Ahead of the premiere of her Percussion Concerto by Evelyn Glennie later this month, the British composer talks about her debut album of orchestral works (released on Rubicon in March) - and how she made it her mission to 'to learn everything possible about things that I knew nothing about' when she arrived in London to study composition.
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The Presto Chart - March 2024
3rd Apr 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Beatrice Rana's recording of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata & Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 on Warner Classics in first place...
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Berginald Rash and Fiona Gryson on 'Dathanna'
2nd Apr 2024
The duo talk about their new album 'Dathanna: Hues & Shades', released in February on Orchid Classics and featuring works for clarinet and harp - both originals and arrangements.
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New Music Book Publications - 2nd April 2024
2nd Apr 2024
A history of women and the piano, a discussion of Schubert's engagement with gothic discourse in his music, an analysis of the early compositions of Pierre Boulez in relation to the cultural environment of Paris in the 1940s, an exploration of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York, and an examination of the circumstances that led to the creation of Miles Davis's seminal album, Kind of Blue.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2024
31st Mar 2024
This month's heavyweights include William Steinberg & the Pittsburgh Symphony's complete recordings on Command Classics, a centenary celebration of Sir Neville Marriner in Beethoven, and the final instalment of Peter Kofler's survey of Bach's organ works from St. Michael's Church in Munich.
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Mozart and Strauss Lieder from Sabine Devieilhe & Mathieu Pordoy
29th Mar 2024
The French coloratura soprano and her new recital-partner draw all manner of illuminating parallels between the two composers in a recital which includes Mozart's Das Kinderspiel and Abendempfindung & Strauss's Mädchenblumen, Morgen! and Amor.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2024
29th Mar 2024
Amongst the highlights this week is Cyrille Aimee's first self-penned album A Fleur de Peau, Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro and Marilyn Mazur are captured live in 2023, and Lonnie Smith's Afro-Desia goes all psychedelic on us...
