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Spotlight on Pearl Flutes
14th Mar 2024
We are excited to have expanded the range of flute brands we offer to now include Pearl flutes! Find out more about their range in this article...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2024
13th Mar 2024
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by a live recording of Janáček's Katya Kabanova from Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra and a cast headed by American soprano Amanda Majeski as a Katya of 'harrowing immediacy'.
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova
Amanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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Hugo Wolf
13th Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the arch-Romantic Lieder composer - best known for his intense, harmonically adventurous Mörike-Lieder, Italienisches Liederbuch and Spanisches Liederbuch.
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Richard Baker on The Tyranny of Fun
12th Mar 2024
The composer talks about his new album of ensemble and choral works with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, out on March 15th on NMC Records.
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Sebastian Studnitzky on 'Memento Odesa'
11th Mar 2024
The trumpeter and composer talks about his new EP of works recorded in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, in collaboration with the city's symphony orchestra and its conductor Volodymyr Dikiy.
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Memento Odesa
Studnitzky, Odesa Symphonic Orchestra, Volodymyr Dikiy
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Orchestral Works by Dorothy Howell
8th Mar 2024
Rebecca Miller conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in world premiere recordings of the Humoresque, The Rock, the Three Divertissements and Koong Shee plus a terrific account of Lamia - the Keats-inspired tone-poem which made the 21-year-old composer an overnight success after its Proms premiere in 1919.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th March 2024
8th Mar 2024
Chopin and Beethoven from Beatrice Rana, Stravinsky and Debussy from Klaus Mäkelä & the Orchestre de Paris, Marian music from Andreas Scholl & Accademia Bizantina, and Wagner transcriptions from Nikolai Lugansky.
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Try our new Download Manager
7th Mar 2024
Find out more about our new Download Manager, offering a quicker, smoother and customisable way to manage your download purchases.
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Michael Barenboim on Elgar and more
7th Mar 2024
The violinist discusses his recent recording of the Elgar concerto, his work as Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, switching between violin and viola - and family values.
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Our streaming service turns one!
6th Mar 2024
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our streaming service, we are giving you the chance to win a year's free subscription.
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Our streaming service turns one!
6th Mar 2024
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our streaming service, we are giving you the chance to win a year's free subscription.
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New Sheet Music Titles - March 6th
6th Mar 2024
Schönberg's Complete Piano Works; selections from Studio Ghibli films; The Joy of Graded Piano; Florence Price's Concert Overture No. 2; Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony; and Mozart's Symphony No. 36.
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Daniel Hope on Dance!
5th Mar 2024
The violinist discusses his new project exploring 'the stories behind why people have felt the need to move to music through the ages', including music by Conforto, Piazzólla, Florence Price and Bartók.
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Shergold Guitars: A British Icon, Reborn.
5th Mar 2024
Shergold Guitars, a British guitar company founded in 1965 by the late Jack Golder and Norman Houlder. The company, based in London, quickly gained a reputation for producing high-quality, innovative guitars that were played by some of the biggest names in music, including David Bowie, Genesis and Joy Division.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - March 2024
5th Mar 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the March 2024 issue include new music from Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer, Empirical, Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Charles Lloyd, QOW Trio, Joel Ross, Youn Sun Nah, John Surman as well as archive releases from Art Farmer, Mike Makhalemele & Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi and The Cliffs.
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The Presto Chart - February 2024
4th Mar 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with Théotime Langlois de Swarte's 'compelling' album of Vivaldi concertos and transcriptions with Le Consort on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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New Music Book Publications - 4th March 2024
4th Mar 2024
Essays on opera by the late Edward Said, books on the creation and performance of Beethoven's symphonies, a guide to eight symphonic masterworks of the twentieth century by conductor Leonard Slatkin, twelve studies concerning the analysis and psychology of musical performance, and a paperback edition of Leah Broad's award-winning biography of four women composers.
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Bedřich Smetana
2nd Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the great Czech Romantic composer - best known for his stirring pictorial tone poem Má vlast and opera The Bartered Bride.
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
1st Mar 2024
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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St David's Day - Music from Wales
1st Mar 2024
A selection of music from Wales - Welsh and English songs for voice and piano, orchestral works, choral music and more.
