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Presto Presents... Debbie Wiseman
3rd Sep 2025
The composer and broadcaster joins us to celebrate her first decade as Classic FM's Composer-in-Residence, and to discuss and perform selections from her new sheet-music album Ten: Memories for Solo Piano on Faber Music - including arrangements of themes from The Mirror and the Light, The Glorious Garden, and The Mythos Suite.
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Presto Team Choices - August 2025
2nd Sep 2025
William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds from Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Philadelphia, Morales's Requiem from De Profundis, little-known British chamber works from the Berkeley Ensemble, and Reger from Jaime Martín and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.
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The Presto Chart - August 2025
1st Sep 2025
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, headed by the late Sir Andrew Davis's magnificent orchestral transcriptions of organ works by JS Bach on Chandos.
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro
29th Aug 2025
Nearly a decade after singing Didon and Énée in Berlioz's Les Troyens, Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres are reunited as the star-crossed lovers in Purcell's much more economical treatment of the same story, with a luxury supporting cast and colourful, imaginative playing from the Italian period instrument ensemble.
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Gramophone Awards 2025 - The Shortlist
29th Aug 2025
The six contenders in each of the eleven categories for this year's Awards (presented in partnership with Presto Music) were revealed this morning.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th August 2025
29th Aug 2025
William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds from the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bach albums from Mahan Esfahani and Isabelle Faust, and the world premiere recording of Jake Heggie's new opera Intelligence from Houston Grand Opera.
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Janai Brugger on Intelligence
28th Aug 2025
The American soprano discusses her central role in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's new opera about an enslaved woman who becomes a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil War - the world premiere recording is released tomorrow on Houston Grand Opera's new label.
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Benjamin Nicholas on (more!) Orchestrated Anthems
27th Aug 2025
Merton College Choir's Director introduces his second volume of favourite anthems and church music, reimagined once again in glorious orchestral Technicolor, with the choir and the Britten Sinfonia.
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Boxed Set Selections - Summer 2025
26th Aug 2025
Heavyweight sets from the last couple of months include anthologies devoted to Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Aldo Ciccolini and John Williams, plus Max Reger's complete solo piano works from Markus Becker.
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The Seasons from Yunchan Lim
22nd Aug 2025
Yunchan Lim follows his award-winning debut with a colourful and imaginative recording of Tchaikovsky's best known work for solo piano, demonstrating fertile imagination and further dimensions to his pianism.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd August 2025
22nd Aug 2025
A second volume of Mozart from Federico Colli, songs of the Belle Époque from Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi, Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres in the title-roles, and Haydn's The Seasons from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations.
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Giovanni Antonini on Il Giardino Armonico
20th Aug 2025
As the Italian period instrument ensemble celebrates its fortieth anniversary, its founder member and current Music Director reflects on the group's evolution - and why he believes that 'everything in Italy is theatre, for better or for worse'...
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Offenbach from Véronique Gens and other vocal highlights for the autumn
19th Aug 2025
The French tragedienne lets her hair down in operetta, with other stand-outs including Donizetti songs from Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi, a lute song recital with a difference from countertenor Reginald Mobley, and a bel canto album from Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2025 Choices
18th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Rachel Podger's 'spontaneous and sensitive' accounts of six Biber violin sonatas with Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics.
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Four Spirits from Abel Selaocoe
15th Aug 2025
The cello-centred multi-instrumentalist presents his genre-defying new concertante work, drawing on South African and Western classical musical lineages and with co-starring roles for percussion and voice.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th August 2025
15th Aug 2025
Early Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Schubert + Beethoven from Can Çakmur, British piano quintets from Peter Donohoe and I Musicanti, and Agricola from Austrian early music ensemble Beauty Farm.
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Michael Repper and Curtis Stewart on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
14th Aug 2025
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the conductor and violinist talk about their shared passion for making the unheard heard, ensuring music is accessible, and the teamwork behind their new album.
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Nigel Short on A Prayer for Deliverance
13th Aug 2025
Tenebrae's conductor talks about the choir's most recent album, pairing an astonishing, virtuosic and powerful new work from rising US composer Joel Thompson with Howells's well-loved Requiem.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2025
12th Aug 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'welcome, colourful and, at times, unconventional' set of Bach orchestral transcriptions by the late Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos.
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Martin Baker on Corpus Christi from Buckfast Abbey
11th Aug 2025
The organist and composer talks about his newly-commissioned Mass for Buckfast Abbey, and some of the age-old strands of liturgical music that partly inspired it.
