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2022 Goodbyes
3rd Jan 2023
A short video tribute remembering some of the musicians who died during 2022.
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Frank Agsteribbe on elaborate Requiem Masses by Philippus van Steelant
3rd Jan 2023
The conductor discusses the splendour of funerary works by Philippus van Steelant, newly recorded by B'Rock Orchestra and cantoLX.
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Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650
cantoLX, B'Rock Orchestra, Frank Agsteribbe
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Schubert Revisited from Matthias Goerne
30th Dec 2022
The German baritone is on top form in this recital of nineteen Lieder in bespoke orchestrations by one of his regular recital-partners Alexander Schmalcz, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen responding to his simple eloquence in kind.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th December 2022
30th Dec 2022
A Purcell double-bill from Geneva-based ensemble Les Argonautes, an all-Mozart programme from French soprano Julie Fuchs, the conclusion of William Youn's Schubert piano sonatas project, and Italian baroque Christmas music from Dorothee Mields and Dorothee Oberlinger.
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Parker Ramsay and Nico Muhly on The Street
29th Dec 2022
The harpist and composer talk about a striking new work based on the Stations of the Cross.
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Javier Camarena on Signor Gaetano
28th Dec 2022
The Mexican tenor discusses his recent Pentatone album exploring Donizetti's Italian operas (including rarities such as Betly, Maria de Rudenz and Giovedì Grasso), and explains why singing these works leaves him 'feeling satisfied and happy, rather than mentally exhausted!'.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2022 Choices
26th Dec 2022
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with an 'optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful' Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro on Erato in pride of place...
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2022
23rd Dec 2022
Recordings of works by Coleridge-Taylor, Meyerbeer, John Williams and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson feature among the editorial team's individual picks of the year.
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Julian Marshall and James Gilchrist on The Angel in the Forest
22nd Dec 2022
The British composer discusses his atmospheric song-cycle for tenor and chamber ensemble (released as an EP on Orchid Classics last month) with its dedicatee.
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Daniel Trocmé-Latter and Patrick Allies on The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539
21st Dec 2022
Siglo de Oro's director Patrick Allies and musicologist Daniel Trocmé-Latter talk about a new recording of Renaissance motets with an unexpected origin.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2022
20th Dec 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a display of 'fearless daredevilry' from pianist (and high-flying international lawyer) Paul Wee in transcriptions by Liszt and Alkan on BIS...
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ATMA Classique's complete Massenet songs project
19th Dec 2022
The label's artistic director Michel Ferland talks to Katherine about one of the most ambitious recording-projects ever undertaken in Canada, featuring over 300 songs and a line-up of artists including Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Julie Boulianne.
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Jules Massenet - Intégrale des mélodies pour voix et piano
Olivier Godin (piano, harmonium, harpsichord), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Antonio Figueroa (tenor), Anna-Sophie Neher (soprano), Karina Gauvin (soprano), Jean-François Lapointe (baritone), Magali Simard-Galdès (soprano), Marc Boucher (baritone), Joé Lampron-Dandonneau (tenor), Hugo Laporte (baritone), David Jacques (guitar), Florence Bourget (contralto, soprano), Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano), Emmanuel Hasler (tenor), Éric Laporte (tenor), Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Naubert (soprano), Stéphane Tétreault (cello), Frédéric Antoun (tenor), Jean Marchand (narrator), Antoine Bareil (violin), Valérie Milot (harp), Marie-Ève Pelletier (narrator), Antoine Bélanger (tenor)
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Mavra/Iolanta from the Bayerische Staatsoper
16th Dec 2022
The young artists of the Munich opera-house's training studio (including Mirjam Mesak and Freddie De Tommaso) shine brightly in Axel Ranisch's ingenious fusion of two contrasting one-act operas by Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.
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Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta (DVD)
Mirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta) Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch, Alevtina Ioffe
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New Releases from Winter 2022
16th Dec 2022
Christmas with Tenebrae, the first instalment of Angela Hewitt's Mozart sonatas cycle, Andrew Gourlay's Parsifal Suite, and a second helping of Ravel from Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra.
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Christophe Rousset on Les Talens Lyriques at 30
15th Dec 2022
As his ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday, the conductor and harpsichordist talks about turning people onto Lully, venturing towards Wagner, and 'opening doors' for the next generation of young musicians and music-lovers in France...
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Véronique Gens in La Voix Humaine and other forthcoming highlights
14th Dec 2022
Other stand-out releases for early 2023 include Clara and Robert Schumann from Beatrice Rana, Mompou from Stephen Hough, Beethoven & Schubert from Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida, and Czech harpsichord concertos from Mahan Esfahani.
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Will Dawes on Dawn of Grace
14th Dec 2022
The Director of Music at Oxford's Somerville College talks about a new album celebrating the Christmas music of contemporary women composers.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2022 Choices
12th Dec 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'wonderfully refined orchestral playing' from the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jakub Hrůša on two discs of Brahms and Dvořák...
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Recordings of the Year 2022 - Our Top 10
9th Dec 2022
The winners revealed - ten fantastic recordings which really stood out from the crowd for us over the past twelve months, plus the results of our five special category awards...
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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A piano double-bill from Leeds winners Alim Beisembayev and Eric Lu
9th Dec 2022
Masterful Liszt and delicate Schubert from the 2021 and 2018 winners of the Leeds International Piano Competition.
