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Delyana Lazarova on the music of Dobrinka Tabakova
16th Oct 2023
The conductor talks about her new album of orchestral works by her compatriot, performed by the Hallé, and explains a little of the experience of working under Mark Elder as Assistant Conductor.
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Folk Songs from Magdalena Kožená
13th Oct 2023
The Czech mezzo teams up with her husband Simon Rattle and the Czech Philharmonic for superbly characterful performances of folk-inspired song-cycles by Bartók, Berio, Ravel and Montsalvatge.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th October 2023
13th Oct 2023
Ravel and Falla from Alexandre Tharaud, the Orchestre National de France & Louis Langrée, Lully's Thésée from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, French love-songs from Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford, and the world premiere recording of Emily Howard's The Anvil.
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Miloš Karadaglić on Baroque
12th Oct 2023
The Montenegrin guitarist explains why his upcoming album of music by Vivaldi, Marcello, Weiss, Rameau and others feels like 'standing on new ground' - and why JS Bach only came into the picture at the eleventh hour...
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Miloš: Baroque
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
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A Flashback and a Hope, through Venezuelan Guitar
11th Oct 2023
In the second instalment of our Recollections series, Orlando Guedez Calderin (President of the International Institute of Business Analysis in Colombia) recounts how a 1957 recording of Antonio Lauro's Guitar Concerto No. 1 stirs a host of 'memories and hopes' about his homeland of Venezuela.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2023
10th Oct 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, headed by a 'lived-in and confident' account of the Monteverdi Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon on Harmonia Mundi.
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Anders Eidsten Dahl on Mozart and the Organ
9th Oct 2023
The organist talks about his new recording of Mozart gems for the organ - relatively brief single-work sonatas written for use during church services, as well as more substantial works including two dramatic Fantasias.
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A slow-brewed Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson
6th Oct 2023
The Icelandic pianist presents the results of twenty-five years of thoughtful preparation, in a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations that combines control and spontaneity, limpid gentleness and furious virtuosic energy.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th October 2023
6th Oct 2023
A tribute to the late Lars Vogt from his friends Christian & Tanja Tetzlaff, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Paavo Järvi, Baroque rarities from Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d'Oro, Bach's French Suites from Mahan Esfahani, and a recital of twentieth-century music from Johan Dalene and Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Dominic Fyfe and Philip Siney on remastering Solti's Ring Cycle
5th Oct 2023
In the wake of winning Gramophone's Spatial Audio Award for their painstaking work on Die Walküre, Decca's producer Dominic Fyfe and sound-engineer Philip Siney discuss how they went about showcasing Solti's landmark achievement in all its glory.
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner) Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2023
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the Recording of the Year, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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The Presto Chart - September 2023
2nd Oct 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with an 'impeccably authentic' account of Monteverdi's Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon in first place...
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Miloš Karadaglić on Baroque (transcript)
1st Oct 2023
The Montenegrin guitarist explains why his upcoming album of music by Vivaldi, Marcello, Weiss, Rameau and others feels like 'standing on new ground' - and why JS Bach only came into the picture at the eleventh hour...
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Miloš: Baroque
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2023
1st Oct 2023
Jaw-dropping pyrotechnics from Isabelle Faust in Locatelli, a red-blooded Dido & Aeneas from La Nuova Musica, and an Offenbach operetta fizzing with all the fun of the fair from Paul Daniel and a sparky cast headed by Anne-Catherine Gillet and Virginie Verrez.
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Igor Levit's Fantasia
29th Sep 2023
The pianist brings clear-eyed precision and cantabile beauty to a programme of works by JS Bach, Liszt, Berg and Busoni, released today on Sony Classical.
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Fantasia
Igor Levit (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 29th September 2023
29th Sep 2023
Puccini from Jonathan Tetelman, French song-cycles from Marie-Nicole Lemieux, George Walker's complete sinfonias from the National Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda, and a nocturnal organ recital from Anna Lapwood.
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William Vann on Parry's Prometheus Unbound
28th Sep 2023
The conductor discusses the world premiere recording of Parry's 1880 setting of scenes from Shelley's lyrical drama - the first performance of which was described by the musicologist Ernest Walker as 'a definite birthday for modern English music'...
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2023
27th Sep 2023
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
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A Life With Shostakovich
26th Sep 2023
In the first instalment of our Recollections series, Hoi F. Cheu PhD (Director of the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity at Laurentian University and Director of Doran Planetarium) recounts how a teenage encounter with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony shaped his extraordinary dual career - and several close relationships...
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Episode 42: A Great Musical Dett - Choral Music by Black Composers with Dr Marques Garrett
23rd Sep 2023
A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more.
