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Daniel Grimwood on Adolph von Henselt
27th Apr 2023
Editor Daniel Grimwood is one of Adolph von Henselt's most highly regarded interpreters. After recently completing a new edition of Henselt's Etudes with Edition Peters, Daniel kindly took some time to talk to me about the new Urtext edition and the composer Adolph von Henselt.
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Ahmad Jamal Trio, 'The Awakening'
26th Apr 2023
Underrated at the time of its release but having since gone on to be adored by jazz cats and hip-hop producers alike, this album reveals the late pianist at his most joyously creative.
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Eric Whitacre at... 30!
26th Apr 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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Ahmad Jamal (1930-2023)
26th Apr 2023
The American pianist, famed for his inventive approach towards rhythm and space, has died aged 92.
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New Sony Titles added to our Presto CD range
25th Apr 2023
Guitarists Julian Bream and John Williams feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical.
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2023 Choices
24th Apr 2023
Chris introduces this month's choices, headed by a 'sumptuous and revelatory' conclusion to Phantasm's Well-Tempered Consort series on Linn...
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Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin
22nd Apr 2023
Pianist, conductor, musicologist and Mozart reconstructionist Robert Levin talks about the resumption of his complete survey of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 21st April 2023
21st Apr 2023
This week's new releases include a glimpse of summer from ECM, some forward-thinking sounds from the younger generation and a tribute to a spiritual avant-garde legend.
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Gustavo Dudamel conducts Dante, a new ballet by Thomas Adès
21st Apr 2023
Based on Dante's La Divina Commedia, Thomas Adès's three-part ballet receives a virtuosic performance from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with music that moves from the grotesque to the sublime, incorporating a touch of Franz Liszt along the way.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st April 2023
21st Apr 2023
Reich's Music for 18 Musicians from The Colin Currie Group, Baroque rarities from Michael Spyres & Il Pomo d'Oro, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 from Semyon Bychkov, and the physical release of Fabio Luisi's acclaimed Nielsen cycle with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
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John Eliot Gardiner at 80
20th Apr 2023
A look back over the conductor's long and illustrious recording career - from Monteverdi operas and Bach cantatas to Romantic rediscoveries and more.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: The Winners!
19th Apr 2023
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
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GoGo Penguin - Everything Is Going To Be OK
19th Apr 2023
A glowing return to form for the Manchester-based trio, this time digitally manipulating their unique acoustic sonorities to tackle post-human anxieties.
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David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures'
18th Apr 2023
The artistic director of Alamire talks about his new recording with Fretwork of Byrd's 1589 collection of church and domestic songs, complementing an album from two years ago in which they explored the previous volume from 1588.
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Katie Mitchell's staging of Handel's Theodora and other forthcoming highlights
17th Apr 2023
Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński star in the British director's hard-hitting Covent Garden production from 2022, with other highlights including Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, scenes of childhood from Isata Kanneh-Mason, and American countertenor Reginald Mobley's debut recording of spirituals on Alpha Classics.
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Brandee Younger - Brand New Life
14th Apr 2023
On her gorgeous new album Brand New Life Brandee Younger moves the jazz harp into lush new territory, embracing hip-hop-inspired beats and R&B moods in her hypnotic sound world.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th April 2023
14th Apr 2023
Highlights this week include Fire! Orchestra, the percussion section of Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and jazzy trip-hop from Sharky.
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Anime Immortali from Franco Fagioli
14th Apr 2023
The Argentinian countertenor is at the top of his game in a programme exploring Mozart's writing for castrati, including the motet Exsultate, jubilate and arias from La finta giardiniera, Lucio Silla and La clemenza di Tito.
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Franco Fagioli on Anime Immortali
14th Apr 2023
The Argentinian countertenor discusses his new album of sacred and secular Mozart (out today on Pentatone) - and recounts how his love-affair with singing the composer's music was ignited when he was cast as First Boy in Die Zauberflöte aged 11...
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New Release Round-Up - 14th April 2023
14th Apr 2023
Mercadante's Il Proscritto from Carlo Rizzi & Opera Rara, a German Baroque Requiem from Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, an eclectic Marian-themed recital from Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Anna Prohaska, and Bruckner from François-Xavier Roth in Cologne.
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