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Episode 30: Music from the Golden Age of Hollywood with John Wilson
15th Sep 2022
James is joined by conductor John Wilson for a look back at some of his recordings with Sinfonia of London, followed by an in-depth chat about their latest album of Golden Age film music, Hollywood Soundstage.
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Alison Balsom on Quiet City
14th Sep 2022
The trumpet-player discusses her new album of music by composers including Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein and Ives, and reflects on the unique qualities of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie...
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2022 Choices
13th Sep 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust's 'indispensable' recording of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place...
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Jenny Q Chai on Songs of Love
12th Sep 2022
The pianist and entrepreneuse talks about her album in memory of her teacher Seymour Lipkin, the Shanghai music school she set up in 2011, and her involvement in bringing music and AI together.
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Jenny Q Chai (piano)
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John Wilson conducts music from Hollywood's Golden Age
9th Sep 2022
Sinfonia of London and conductor John Wilson present a dazzling selection of music from classic movies including Rebecca, The Wizard of Oz, Laura, How to Marry a Millionaire, My Fair Lady, and Now, Voyager.
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Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - the top three in each category
9th Sep 2022
The final contenders in each of the twelve categories were revealed this morning, with Isabelle Faust, Raphaël Pichon, Leif Ove Andsnes and Alina Ibragimova among those in the running…
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New Release Round-Up - 9th September 2022
9th Sep 2022
Liszt, Wagner and Henze from Igor Levit, a wide-ranging song-inspired recital from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a celebration of two hundred years of Brazilian classical music, and Monteverdi from Jordi Savall.
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Martin Roscoe on Beethoven's Hammerklavier
8th Sep 2022
Martin Roscoe talks about the final volume of his Beethoven sonata series, featuring the Hammerklavier offset by two lighter sonatas.
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Handel's Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and other autumn highlights
7th Sep 2022
Lisette Oropesa heads a starry cast on Il Pomo d'Oro's upcoming recording of Handel's dramatic oratorio about religious persecution in ancient Rome, plus Dvořák from Leif Ove Andsnes, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and Ruth Gipps from the BBC Philharmonic.
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Lars Vogt (1970-2022)
6th Sep 2022
The German pianist and conductor, a superb chamber musician who was especially noted for his interpretations of Austro-German Romantic repertoire, has died of cancer aged 51.
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Episode 29: Eine kleine Havanamusik with Sarah Willis
5th Sep 2022
Horn-player Sarah Willis discusses the second of her Cuban-inspired albums, and the connections between Mozart and Latin American dance.
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Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope
2nd Sep 2022
Featuring music by composers including Léhar, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla, the Egyptian soprano's beguiling, wide-ranging invitation to the dance proves impossible to resist.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd September 2022
2nd Sep 2022
Bach from Mahan Esfahani, Brahms from Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz, John Adams from Paavo Järvi, and Haydn from the Takács Quartet.
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The Presto Chart - August 2022
1st Sep 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Alison Balsom's Quiet City (released last Friday on Warner Classics) in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2022
31st Aug 2022
Mahler from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, a beguiling 'emporium of curiosities' from Sean Shibe, and Wolf Lieder in full orchestral technicolour from Benjamin Appl and the Jenaer Philharmonie.
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Randall Scotting on Senesino
31st Aug 2022
The American countertenor discusses his new album The Crown, exploring the star castrato's legacy beyond the Handel roles for which he is best known today...
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Opus Klassik Awards 2022
30th Aug 2022
Revealed this morning in advance of next month's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Igor Levit, Lea Desandre, Vladimir Jurowski and Kian Soltani.
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Alison Balsom's Quiet City
26th Aug 2022
Alison Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia offer a colourful collection of works and arrangements that place the trumpet firmly at the centre of attention.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th August 2022
26th Aug 2022
Brahms symphonies from Ádám Fischer, Johann Jakob Walther from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Sean Shibe's Lost & Found, and early English keyboard music from Giulia Nuti.
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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
