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Ermonela Jaho on Le Willis
19th Sep 2019
The Albanian soprano talks to Katherine about singing the role of Anna on Sir Mark Elder's recording of Puccini's first opera in its original one-act incarnation, released tomorrow on Opera Rara.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2019
18th Sep 2019
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s complete recordings on Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, Beethoven sets from Wilhelm Kempff, Igor Levit and Ronald Brautigam, and the fruits of a 2018 Hamburg festival centring on the artistry of Martha Argerich.
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The Queen's Six on The Last Rose of Summer
17th Sep 2019
Bass Simon Whiteley of The Queen's Six talks to David about their new album of British and Irish folksong arrangements.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2019
16th Sep 2019
Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos from Christian Tetzlaff, Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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Wu Wei on Silk Baroque
15th Sep 2019
The sheng virtuoso discusses his fusion project with Holland Baroque (released earlier this summer on Pentatone), which features Chinese traditional tunes alongside music by Rameau, Telemann and Vivaldi.
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Soirée from Magdalena Kožená and friends
13th Sep 2019
The Czech mezzo is joined by her husband and assorted colleagues for a programme of songs for voice and chamber ensemble by Ravel, Brahms, Stravinsky, Chausson, Strauss, Dvořák and Janáček.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th September 2019
13th Sep 2019
New albums from Jan Lisiecki, Michael and Daniel Barenboim, Igor Levit, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, plus a Rossini rarity starring Pretty Yende and Juan Diego Flórez on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Robin Ticciati on Duruflé and Debussy
12th Sep 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about his third recording of French repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which pairs the Duruflé Requiem with Debussy's Nocturnes.
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Miloš Karadaglić on The Sound of Silence
11th Sep 2019
The guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album, conceived during his recovery from a hand injury which put his career on hold for several years.
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Gramophone Awards 2019 - the top three in each category
11th Sep 2019
The final contenders in each of the ten genres were revealed this morning…
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A Farinelli homage from Cecilia Bartoli and other forthcoming highlights
10th Sep 2019
The Italian mezzo pays tribute to the most celebrated castrato of them all, plus a Viennese whirl with Jonas Kaufmann, Beethoven from Leonidas Kavakos and Masaaki Suzuki, and Purcell's King Arthur from Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli.
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Raphaël Pichon on Libertà!
9th Sep 2019
The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.
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Works by Richard Strauss from Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
6th Sep 2019
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in thrillingly-detailed and impassioned performances of four orchestral works by Richard Strauss.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th September 2019
6th Sep 2019
New albums from Imogen Cooper, Emmanuelle Bertrand, The Sixteen and Mr McFall's Chamber, plus Simon Rattle's inaugural concert as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra on DVD and blu-ray.
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Andrew Manze on Vaughan Williams
5th Sep 2019
The conductor talks to David about his recently-concluded series of Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Onyx, and the postscript to the cycle which will be released in October...
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Hyperion downloads now available!
4th Sep 2019
Hyperion and Helios recordings are now available to download (including over 400 in Hi-Res); to celebrate this new addition to the Presto catalogue, David picks out some highlights from Hyperion's forty-year history.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2019
3rd Sep 2019
Chris rounds up the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards, which will be presented at the Konzerthaus Berlin next month.
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The Presto Chart - August 2019
2nd Sep 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Mahan Esfahani's Bach Toccatas on Hyperion in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2019
31st Aug 2019
Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion paint a vivid picture of Mozart on the cusp of operatic greatness, Christophe Rousset makes a hugely persuasive case for Gounod’s original version of Faust, and Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson beguile in a programme of music for cello and piano by the Mendelssohns.
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John Wilson conducts Korngold's Symphony in F sharp
30th Aug 2019
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London show their impressive credentials when it comes to the music of Korngold, with a thrillingly-performed account of the Symphony in F sharp.
