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Music for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
6th May 2023
A selection of music for royal occasions, and recordings from the composers and artists featured at the King's Coronation - from Parry and Purcell to Weir and Williams.
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Sheet Music to Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
6th May 2023
Browse our selection of sheet music to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. Find out more here.
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Beethoven & Beyond from María Dueñas
5th May 2023
The 20-year-old Spanish violinist combines a sense of almost childlike wonder with absolute technical mastery on her debut recording of the Beethoven concerto with the Wiener Symphoniker & Manfred Honeck, supplemented with shorter pieces by composers who wrote cadenzas to the work.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th May 2023
5th May 2023
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde from Piotr Beczala, Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber, Spontini's La vestale from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, Stanford's Requiem from Martyn Brabbins, and an eclectic East-meets-West recital from Karim Sulayman & Sean Shibe.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 5th May 2023
5th May 2023
This week's releases include new albums from Joe Lovano, Matthieu Saglio, Tineke Postma and the six-piece group, Artemis. In addition, there's a second instalment of UK jazz dance legend Paul Murphy's Jazz Room compilation.
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Canadian Jazz Collective - Septology: The Black Forest Session
5th May 2023
Our jazz recording of the week is the debut release from the seven-piece ensemble of award-winning and established Canadian jazz musicians, which was recorded at the iconic MPS Records studio in Villingen, Germany.
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Jocelyn Freeman on The Poet's Echo
4th May 2023
The pianist discusses her album of works with a Pushkin connection (including a new version of Britten's eponymous song-cycle, Shostakovich's Cello Sonata and Prokofiev's Three Romances), recently released on Rubicon and also featuring soprano Gemma Summerfield, baritone Gareth Brynmor John & cellist Abi Hyde-Smith.
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Matilda Lloyd on 'Casta Diva'
3rd May 2023
In an exclusive post-concert interview for Presto Music following her launch recital at London's Wigmore Hall, trumpeter Matilda Lloyd talks about her new album of opera-inspired variations for trumpet and ensemble, 'Casta Diva' - featuring arrangements of works by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Viardot and more, and showcasing the instrument's more lyrical side.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - May 2023
3rd May 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the May 2023 issue include new music from Billy Childs, Fire! Orchestra, Ingrid Laubrock, Nana Rashid and Billy Valentine and the Universal Truth, as well as archive releases from Bill Evans and Chet Baker.
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Eric Whitacre at... 30!
3rd May 2023
Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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The Presto Chart - April 2023
2nd May 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - April 2023
1st May 2023
An irresistible collection of Roberto Sierra's orchestral music from Domingo Hindoyan and the Liverpool Philharmonic, Baroque fireworks from vocal chameleon Michael Spyres, and a ravishing debut album from young British countertenor Alexander Chance with lutenist Toby Carr.
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New Music Book Publications - 1st May 2023
1st May 2023
A guide to this summer's BBC Proms season, an analysis of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd's 1575 collection of sacred music (Cantiones sacrae), essays on Beethoven by scholars at the University of Manchester, a discussion of music in Oxford during the twentieth century, studies of songs by Clara Schumann and Benjamin Britten, and a history of the "Broadway Body".
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2023
29th Apr 2023
Two anthologies celebrating the ninetieth birthday of 'Dutch Nightingale' Elly Ameling, a fiftieth-anniversary collection of The English Concert's recordings with founder Trevor Pinnock, and Rachel Podger's complete Vivaldi recordings on Channel Classics.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 28th April 2023
28th Apr 2023
Rounding up our April releases, there's new material from Taj Mahal and Arturo O'Farrill, plus a reissue from avant-garde stalwarts The Jazz Doctors. The experimental Alexander Hawkins Trio push boundaries and the Miles Electric Band come together for a blend of modern hip-hop realness.
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Shirley Scott - Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank
28th Apr 2023
Our final Jazz Recording of the Week for this month is a recently unearthed live recording that showcases the Queen of the Organ at the peak of her powers.
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Fantasie from Alexander Melnikov
28th Apr 2023
The Russian pianist performs seven fantasias by composers from JS Bach to Schnittke on seven historically-appropriate instruments, including an extraordinary tangent piano from 1790 and two fortepianos from his own personal collection.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th April 2023
28th Apr 2023
CPE Bach from Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout, Roberto Sierra from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English lute songs from Alexander Chance & Toby Carr, and Schnittke from Cappella Amsterdam.
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Raider of the Lost Archives - Michael Spyres on Contra-Tenor
27th Apr 2023
The American singer discusses becoming 'the Indiana Jones of the tenor voice' on his latest album for Erato, which charts the evolution of the Baroque tenore assoluto and features rarities by composers including Latilla, Mazzoni & Piccinni...
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Early Music Round-Up - Spring 2023
27th Apr 2023
A Baroque programme mirroring the texts of Brahms's German Requiem from Vox Luminis, Schütz's jubilant Easter Oratorio from Ensemble Polyharmonique, transcriptions of Bach organ works from Holland Baroque, a retracing of Telemann's wanderings through Central and Eastern Europe from Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and more.
