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Richard Watkins on The Romantic Horn
14th Mar 2019
The British horn-player talks to David about his new album of music by Beethoven, Strauss, Schumann, Scriabin and more with the pianist Julius Drake, out now on Signum Classics.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2019 Choices
12th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month’s choices, headed by a peerless Schumann song-recital from German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber on Sony Classical.
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Andreas Ottensamer on Blue Hour
11th Mar 2019
Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to David about his new album of Romantic clarinet works, with Yuja Wang and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Michael Gielen (1927-2019)
10th Mar 2019
The Austrian-German conductor, renowned for his interpretations of twentieth-century and contemporary music, has died aged 91.
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Philippe Jaroussky sings Cavalli
8th Mar 2019
The French countertenor leads Artaserse in a kaleidoscopic survey of the many and varied operas by the seventeenth-century Italian composer, shot through with the spirit of Venetian carnival.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th March 2019
8th Mar 2019
New albums from Andreas Ottensamer, Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Ian Bostridge, and the world premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, with the composer conducting and the dedicatee as soloist.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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Jacques Loussier (1934-2019)
7th Mar 2019
The French pianist and composer, best known for his trio’s million-selling string of albums re-interpreting the music of Bach in a jazz style, passed away on Monday aged 84.
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019
Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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Peter Hurford (1930-2019)
4th Mar 2019
The British organist and composer, particularly renowned for his interpretations of Bach, has died aged 88.
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Presto Editor's Choices - February 2019
4th Mar 2019
Two contributions to this year’s Offenbach bicentenary by rising young French virtuosos, orchestral works by ‘the father of Scottish music’, and superb advocacy for three female composers from violinist Tasmin Little.
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The Presto Chart - February 2019
2nd Mar 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fourth instalment of Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich Under Stalin series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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Franck and Vierne from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
1st Mar 2019
The Russian violinist and French pianist bring a refreshing clarity and delicacy to two sonatas written for the Belgian composer-violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st March 2019
1st Mar 2019
New recordings from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Sir Andrew Davies and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and British vocal ensemble EXAUDI, plus Bernard Haitink’s Mahler and Bruckner cycles with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on Blu-ray Audio.
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André Previn (1929-2019)
28th Feb 2019
The German-born American conductor, composer and jazz pianist, who served as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra after a glittering early career in Hollywood, has died today in Manhattan.
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Guy Johnston and Tom Poster on Themes and Variations
27th Feb 2019
Cello and piano duo Guy Johnston and Tom Poster talk to David about their new album celebrating twenty years of music-making together.
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Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2019
26th Feb 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed up some 'simply wonderful Bach-playing' from Polish pianist Ewa Pobłocka on the Frederick Chopin Institute's own label.
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Mark Bebbington on Private Passions
25th Feb 2019
The British pianist talks to David about his new album of works by Arnold Bax & Harriet Cohen.
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Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich cycle with Symphonies 6 & 7
22nd Feb 2019
Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with thrillingly detailed accounts of the Sixth and Seventh symphonies.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd February 2019
22nd Feb 2019
New recordings from Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Vadym Kholodenko, and Lucie Horsch, plus the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel.
