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Boxed Set Selections - August 2022
23rd Aug 2022
August heavyweights include a set of Pablo Casals's late chamber music recordings for Philips, the complete Schubert piano sonatas from Elisabeth Leonskaja, and an anthology of French baroque music from the Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
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Pablo Casals: The Philips Legacy
Karl Engel (piano), Pablo Casals (cello, condutor), Various Soloists & Orchestras, Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), Sandor Végh (violin), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Végh Quartet (string quartet), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, Maurice Gendron (cello), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2022 Choices
22nd Aug 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with concertos and orchestral works by Wieniawski, Dobrzyński & Kurpiński from the Orchestra of the 18th Century in pride of place...
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Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust perform György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente
19th Aug 2022
An extraordinary tour de force from the soprano and violinist duo, performing the Hungarian composer's great song cycle setting fragments of texts by Franz Kafka.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th August 2022
19th Aug 2022
Britten from Andrew Staples and Daniel Harding, late Schubert from René Jacobs and B'rock Orchestra, Secret Love Letters from Lisa Batiashvili, and John Cage from the Latvian Radio Choir.
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Michael Waldron on Colourise
17th Aug 2022
The director of London Choral Sinfonia discusses their new album, featuring the world premiere recordings of Lennox Berkeley's Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons and Vaughan Williams's arrangement of the Five Mystical Songs for voice, choir, piano and strings .
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Igor Levit's Tristan and other forthcoming highlights
16th Aug 2022
Other stand-out releases for the autumn include French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, Szymanowski from Krystian Zimerman, Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, and a Kurtág-inspired musical autobiography from Víkingur Ólafsson.
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Anna Harvey and Mark Austin on the songs of Warlock and Howe
15th Aug 2022
The mezzo-soprano and pianist talk about their new album of English song from two unique musicians - the Tudor-inspired Peter Warlock and the contemporary composer Frederick Howe.
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Songs by Warlock and Howe
Anna Harvey, Mark Austin
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American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's debut recording
12th Aug 2022
Featuring arias by Cilea, Massenet, Verdi, Ponchielli and Mascagni, the Chile-born tenor's first album for Deutsche Grammophon reveals a powerful dark-hued voice that's allied to real interpretative subtlety.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th August 2022
12th Aug 2022
Martinů from Roger Norrington, Britten and Bridge played on a viola previously owned by both composers, piano duets by four British composers, and a final helping of Mozart from the Armida Quartett.
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Francesco Corti on Bach
10th Aug 2022
The harpsichordist and conductor talks about the pleasures and challenges of reconstructing a harpsichord concerto from a single page of music - and how Bach's resourcefulness resonates with his own 'very Italian common-sense practical side!'.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2022
9th Aug 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'deliciously honest' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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Joel von Lerber on Légende and harp rivalries
8th Aug 2022
The Swiss harpist talks about his new album of nineteenth-century solo harp repertoire, the instrument's development over that period, and the struggle over which design would win out as its modern form.
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Légende
Joel von Lerber (harp)
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Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton and Joseph Middleton
5th Aug 2022
All three artists are wonderfully attuned to the wit and warmth of Wolf's set of 46 delectable miniatures, with Middleton's characterful postludes proving in a joy in themselves...
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New Release Round-Up - 5th August 2022
5th Aug 2022
Bach concertos from Masato Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 from Christian Lindberg, the Emperor Quartet's complete Britten recordings, and Vaughan Williams for brass band.
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Weber’s Bassoon Concerto turns 200!
3rd Aug 2022
Our in-house Instrument Repairer Alex Preston (also a freelance woodwind player) celebrates 'one of the two titans' of the bassoon concerto repertoire, and selects some favourite recordings.
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The Presto Chart - July 2022
2nd Aug 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Ronald Brautigam's recording of piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms on BIS in first place...
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Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers - Introducing Glyndebourne Encore
1st Aug 2022
This summer's landmark production of Smyth's neglected opera (centring on a Cornish community which survives by luring ships to a rocky doom) is now available on the Sussex festival's new subscription streaming-service.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2022
30th Jul 2022
World premiere recordings of works by Jörg Widmann, Lennox Berkeley and John Frederick Lampe, plus an outstanding Respighi recital from Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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Chamber music from the Mendelssohns
29th Jul 2022
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective performs early works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, complemented by one of Fanny's last-ever compositions.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th July 2022
29th Jul 2022
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's Houses of the Wind.
