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Matthew Schellhorn on the piano music of Herbert Howells
26th Jan 2023
The pianist talks about his second volume of piano works by Howells, consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2023
25th Jan 2023
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: Shortlist
24th Jan 2023
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Christopher Tin on The Lost Birds
22nd Jan 2023
The composer talks about his new work, calling attention to declining bird biodiversity through settings of Romantic poetry.
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Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout
20th Jan 2023
The young British viola-player's account of the Cello Concerto as transcribed by Lionel Tertis is a compelling addition to the piece's distinguished discography on its own terms, with sensitive support from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th January 2023
20th Jan 2023
Joseph Jongen from Ivan Ilić, Mozart from Peter Donohoe, Mahler from Claudia Huckle and Nicky Spence, and veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi in concert.
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Ivan Ilić on Joseph Jongen
19th Jan 2023
Ahead of the release of his recording of two sets of Préludes on Chandos tomorrow, the Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about the Belgian composer and teacher's 'huge appetite for contrast'.
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International Classical Music Awards 2023
19th Jan 2023
The ICMA results were revealed yesterday, with winners including Ermonela Jaho, Alessandro Marangoni, Mahan Esfahani, and Asmik Grigorian.
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Ian Venables on the first recordings of his Requiem
18th Jan 2023
The composer talks to David about his Requiem, recorded on Somm Records in 2020 by the choir of Gloucester Cathedral, and more recently in its full orchestral version by the choir of Merton College Oxford and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
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Dussek on Dussek
16th Jan 2023
Pianist Michael Dussek talks about his new album of innovative music by his ancestor Jan Ladislav, and of the influence it had on Chopin.
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Véronique Gens in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine
13th Jan 2023
The great French tragedienne tackles a role that’s surely been beckoning for years, and the results are every bit as compelling as you'd expect - with the Orchestre National de Lille providing some telling insights into the other side of this fraught phone-conversation...
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New Release Round-Up - 13th January 2023
13th Jan 2023
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout, Beethoven from Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lully's Psyché from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, and an album commemorating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes from The King's Singers & Fretwork.
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Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jan 2023
Other stand-out releases for early spring include a second album of English music for strings from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Schumann & Brahms from Benjamin Grosvenor, and world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds's Credo & Simon Bore the Cross.
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Rebecca Saunders on 'Skin'
10th Jan 2023
The British composer talks about her new album, drawing together three of her collaboratively-created contemporary works: Skin, void and Unbreathed.
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New Presto CD titles from Sony Classical
9th Jan 2023
Legendary Sony artists Pablo Casals, Zubin Mehta and Leonard Bernstein feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD catalogue.
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The Takács Quartet perform string quartets by Ravel, Dutilleux, and Stephen Hough
6th Jan 2023
Stylish and refined performances of two pillars of the twentieth-century French quartet repertoire sit alongside a newly-composed gem by Stephen Hough.
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Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets
Takács Quartet
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New Release Round-Up - 6th January 2023
6th Jan 2023
Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Janáček, Brahms & Bartók from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say, Malcolm Arnold from Michael Collins, and Reinecke from Simon Callaghan.
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Bojan Čičić on La Notte
5th Jan 2023
The Croatian violinist speaks to David and Katherine about his collection of 'Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night' with the Illyria Consort, released on Delphian in late November.
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Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
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The Presto Chart - 2022
5th Jan 2023
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Klaus Mäkelä's complete Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic leading the pack...
