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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2023
31st Aug 2023
Early music meets French cabaret in an intriguing collaboration between Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Le Poème Harmonique, Liam Bonthrone and Benjamin Mead explore salon-culture in Paris and New York, and Antoni Wit champions the music of his compatriot Zygmunt Noskowski.
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Presto Presents... Kerson Leong's Bruch and Britten
30th Aug 2023
The Canadian violinist celebrated the release of his recent album of Britten and Bruch concertos on Alpha with a short recital of works by both composers followed by a Q&A session at our store last month - highlights from which are now available to view on our YouTube channel.
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Satie & Cage from Bertrand Chamayou and other forthcoming highlights
29th Aug 2023
Stand-out releases for the autumn also include French repertoire from Steven Osborne, Alexandre Tharaud and Bruce Liu, Baroque albums from Miloš Karadaglić and Avi Avital, and the final instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston.
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Suzi Digby on Sanctissima
28th Aug 2023
The founder and director of the ORA Singers talks about her new album of music inspired by Vespers, and her ongoing mission to celebrate choral music from two Golden Ages centuries apart.
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Russian Romances from Piotr Beczała and Helmut Deutsch
25th Aug 2023
The Polish tenor and German pianist are both at the top of their considerable games in an eloquent and imaginative recital of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, released today on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th August 2023
25th Aug 2023
Nielsen concertos from Fabio Luisi, Bruckner's Eighth Symphony from Paavo Järvi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová from the Salzburg Festival, and an intriguing fusion of early music and cabaret-songs from Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Le Poème Harmonique.
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Tim Parker-Langston on Fanny Hensel's Lieder
24th Aug 2023
The tenor and musicologist discusses his mission to make Hensel's complete songs readily available to audiences and performers alike - and explains why her music 'just never stops surprising us'...
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53 new titles added to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical
23rd Aug 2023
Musicals from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter & Stephen Sondheim and the music of J.S. Bach feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2023
22nd Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with 'an absolute belter' of a Tchaikovsky Five from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place as Recording of the Month...
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Introducing our Recollections project
21st Aug 2023
Presto Music is a company run by music-lovers, for music-lovers, so this is a call-out for your own personal stories - if you have an interesting tale behind a much-loved recording, we would love you to share it with us...
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Sanctissima from the ORA Singers
18th Aug 2023
The London-based vocal ensemble's 'Vespers and Benediction for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary' features striking commissions by Giles Swayne, Julian Anderson, Matthew Martin and the late Sven-David Sandström.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th August 2023
18th Aug 2023
The debut solo recording of Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone, a tribute to Tebaldi from American soprano Melody Moore, Rubinstein piano concertos from Anna Shelest & Neeme Järvi, and Liszt's Faust Symphony from Kirill Karabits in Weimar.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2023 Choices
17th Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'stunningly recorded' account of Hans Sørensen’s suite of excerpts from Bernard Herrmann's only opera Wuthering Heights (starring Keri Fuge as Cathy and Roderick Williams as Heathcliff).
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Renata Scotto (1934-2023)
16th Aug 2023
One of the greatest singing actresses of the twentieth century, the Italian soprano and director has died aged 89.
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Renata Scotto (Cio Cio San), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Anna di Stasio (Suzuki), Rolando Panerai (Sharpless) & Silvana Padoan (Kate Pinkerton), Piero De Palma (Goro) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, John Barbirolli
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Julian Perkins explores Handel's Attick
15th Aug 2023
The man BBC Radio 3 dubbed the "Indiana Jones of Early Music" talks about his new album of music for the clavichord - an instrument that most definitely doesn't belong in a museum.
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Episode 41: Standing out from the Crowd - Arthur Bliss with Paul Spicer
13th Aug 2023
Author Paul Spicer recently joined us at our store in Leamington Spa to discuss his new biography of Arthur Bliss, in conversation with Andrew Burn, chairman of The Bliss Trust.
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Rumon Gamba conducts overtures from Finland
11th Aug 2023
The Oulu Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor offer a treasure trove of rarely-recorded orchestral gems by Finnish composers contemporary with Sibelius.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th August 2023
11th Aug 2023
Shostakovich and Maneein concertos from Rachel Barton Pine, Mozart from Federico Colli, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout and Laura van der Heijden, late Haydn from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and orchestral songs by Peter Warlock.
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Presto Presents... Bojan Čičić's Bach
10th Aug 2023
The Croatian violinist launched his acclaimed new album of the Partitas & Sonatas on Delphian with a short recital and Q&A session at our store in Leamington last month, now available to view on our YouTube channel.
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Bojan Čičić (violin)
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Rob Cowan on Robert Craft
9th Aug 2023
Our new guest-contributor explores the American conductor's complete recordings for Columbia, including music by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Schoenberg and Webern...
