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Frans Brüggen (1934-2014)
14th Aug 2014
Presto looks back on the influential career of Dutch early music specialist Frans Brüggen, who has died at the age of 79.
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Benjamin Grosvenor - a postscript
13th Aug 2014
Following on from Monday's newsletter, I caught up with Benjamin over email to find out more about his new disc Dances - and whether or not he has two left feet…
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Benjamin Grosvenor - Dances
11th Aug 2014
Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor sets Katherine's toes tapping with his new disc, Dances.
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Maurice Ravel
8th Aug 2014
James picks some recordings of the music of French composer, Maurice Ravel.
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Presto CD - More Gramophone Award and Rosette winners are back
6th Aug 2014
Introducing the latest batch of discs on our Manufacture On Demand label, focusing on more Gramophone Award and Penguin Rosette Winners.
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Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
5th Aug 2014
New album will explore music written for three tsarinas in eighteenth-century St Petersburg.
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Russian Orchestral Music from the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
4th Aug 2014
Katherine enjoys an unusual take on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade from Sascha Goetzel and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic.
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Gerstein records Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
2nd Aug 2014
Russian-American Pianist Kirill Gerstein is set to make the world premiere recording of the rare 2nd edition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, alongside Prokofiev's No. 2.
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Gramophone Awards 2014: Shortlist
1st Aug 2014
Gramophone have just revealed details of the 72 recordings in the running for the 2014 Awards - and what a line-up it is this year!
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Music to commemorate the First World War
29th Jul 2014
David picks out some recordings of works particularly closely linked to the Great War - those written in response to it, or influenced by composers' experiences of the fighting.
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Music to commemorate the First World War
28th Jul 2014
Katherine listens to Anna Prohaska's Behind the Lines, a collection of songs spanning a wide historical period, but focusing primarily on the years of the First World War.
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Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014)
27th Jul 2014
Katherine pays tribute to the great Italian tenor, who died yesterday.
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Gabriel Jackson – Airplane Cantata
26th Jul 2014
David talks to British composer Gabriel Jackson about his new disc on Signum with the BBC Singers, featuring several new works including his Airplane Cantata.
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William Walton
25th Jul 2014
James chooses some of his favourite recordings of music by one of the greatest twentieth-century British composers, William Walton.
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Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom
24th Jul 2014
Katherine talks to the composer (recently named Master of the Queen's Music) about her 1990 opera based on Scottish folklore, released this month on NMC Records.
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Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia
23rd Jul 2014
Star countertenors Max Cencic and Franco Fagioli go head-to-head in the first-ever recording of Johann Adolf Hasse's 1733 opera.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2014
22nd Jul 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from this month's issue, which hits the shops today - featuring Prokofiev on the violin, Rachmaninov on the piano and more.
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Dussek Piano Concertos and Romantic Violin Concertos on Hyperion
21st Jul 2014
James enjoys a double-bill of concertos on Hyperion Records - the first of the Classical Piano Concertos series with Howard Shelley and the latest instalment of Romantic Violin Concertos with Tanja Becker-Bender.
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Anton Bruckner
18th Jul 2014
David listens to recordings of the great Romantic Austrian symphonist, Anton Bruckner.
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Kasper Holten's Don Giovanni
16th Jul 2014
A provocative production of Mozart's "rake's progress" from the director of the Royal Opera House is to be released on DVD in the autumn.
