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The Presto Chart - August 2023
4th Sep 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...
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New Music Book Publications - 4th September 2023
4th Sep 2023
A history of song from the troubadours to the present day, a physiological guide to playing the violin, paperback editions of books on Ivor Gurney and Stephen Sondheim, a study of Mozart's operas in Prague, essays on African music by noted scholar Kofi Agawu, a biography of nineteenth-century American music critic John Sullivan Dwight, and an exploration of the relationship between music and the environment in medieval northern France.
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Monteverdi's Vespers from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion
1st Sep 2023
Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble offer a vivid, contrast-filled account of Monteverdi's sacred masterwork. A new benchmark recording of the Vespers? Quite possibly.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st September 2023
1st Sep 2023
A Shakespeare Songbook from Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, Mozart from the late Lars Vogt in Paris, and Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 1st September, 2023
1st Sep 2023
This week's round-up highlights several new releases from Morton Georg Gisvermik, Sharon Minemoto, Cautious Clay, Brandon Sanders and Chip Wickham.
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Alfredo Rodríguez - Coral Way
1st Sep 2023
The Cuban-born pianist brings the party for a festive gathering in celebration of Miami's Latino culture and communal identity.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2023
31st Aug 2023
Early music meets French cabaret in an intriguing collaboration between Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Le Poème Harmonique, Liam Bonthrone and Benjamin Mead explore salon-culture in Paris and New York, and Antoni Wit champions the music of his compatriot Zygmunt Noskowski.
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Presto Presents... Kerson Leong's Bruch and Britten
30th Aug 2023
The Canadian violinist celebrated the release of his recent album of Britten and Bruch concertos on Alpha with a short recital of works by both composers followed by a Q&A session at our store last month - highlights from which are now available to view on our YouTube channel.
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A Fresh Look at CTI Records
30th Aug 2023
Predicting the direction soul-jazz would move in over the course of the late 60s, label founder Creed Taylor quickly established a recording house whose sound would soon go on to become one of the industry's most influential — come and join the cool revolution!
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Satie & Cage from Bertrand Chamayou and other forthcoming highlights
29th Aug 2023
Stand-out releases for the autumn also include French repertoire from Steven Osborne, Alexandre Tharaud and Bruce Liu, Baroque albums from Miloš Karadaglić and Avi Avital, and the final instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston.
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Film Music Publications from 2023
29th Aug 2023
This year has been very successful for the film industry, with record-breaking box office successes providing us with some iconic soundtracks. Collections of music from many of the latest popular films and television shows are now available in sheet music format. Find out more.
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Suzi Digby on Sanctissima
28th Aug 2023
The founder and director of the ORA Singers talks about her new album of music inspired by Vespers, and her ongoing mission to celebrate choral music from two Golden Ages centuries apart.
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Russian Romances from Piotr Beczała and Helmut Deutsch
25th Aug 2023
The Polish tenor and German pianist are both at the top of their considerable games in an eloquent and imaginative recital of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, released today on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th August 2023
25th Aug 2023
Nielsen concertos from Fabio Luisi, Bruckner's Eighth Symphony from Paavo Järvi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová from the Salzburg Festival, and an intriguing fusion of early music and cabaret-songs from Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Le Poème Harmonique.
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Tenderlonious - You Know I Care
25th Aug 2023
This compelling new album from the lynchpin of the London jazz scene is a heartening gesture complete with old-school gems.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 25th August, 2023
25th Aug 2023
Our round-up this week includes new music from Oiro Pena, Spice'n'Space, Almanaque, Wynton Marsalis and Chris Hazelton. In addition, there's a groundbreaking new archive of field recordings from the archives of American folklorist Mitch McCormick.
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Tim Parker-Langston on Fanny Hensel's Lieder
24th Aug 2023
The tenor and musicologist discusses his mission to make Hensel's complete songs readily available to audiences and performers alike - and explains why her music 'just never stops surprising us'...
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John Coltrane, 'Africa/Brass'
24th Aug 2023
Whilst underappreciated upon its release, Trane's bombastic first album for Impulse! from 1961 would seal his fate as one of the label's most iconoclastic artists and performers.
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Africa/Brass
John Coltrane Quartet, Garvin Bushell (piccolo), Bill Barber (tuba), Charles Greenlee (euphonium), Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone), Julian Priester (euphonium), Eric Dolphy (flute), Elvin Jones (drums), Reggie Workman (upright bass), Pat Patrick (baritone saxophone), Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet), Julius Watkins (french horn), Robert Swisshelm (french horn), McCoy Tyner (piano), Donald Corrado (french horn), Jimmy Buffington (french horn), Booker Little (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Bob Northern (french horn)
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53 new titles added to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical
23rd Aug 2023
Musicals from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter & Stephen Sondheim and the music of J.S. Bach feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Presto Celebrates 10 Years of Love Supreme Festival!
23rd Aug 2023
Join us as we commemorate a whole decade of the groundbreaking Sussex-based festival and talk to several key figures from this year's lineup including Courtney Pine, Zoe Rahman and Immanuel Wilkins.
