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New Presto CDs from Deutsche Grammophon
26th Jul 2022
Gidon Kremer playing Mozart and Karl Böhm and Rafael Kubelik conducting Wagner are amongst the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 2022
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
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Adapted and reconstructed Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro
22nd Jul 2022
Francesco Corti continues his series of Bach harpsichord concerto recordings with an album of double concertos - including his own collaborative reconstruction with Francesco Zimei of a tantalising fragment.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd July 2022
22nd Jul 2022
Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.
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A Concert for Ukraine
Vladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Nico Muhly & Nicholas Phan on Stranger
21st Jul 2022
In the wake of its world premiere recording on Avie, the composer and tenor discuss the extraordinary song-cycle which Muhly composed for Phan in 2019, and reflect on the themes of immigration and identity which lie at the heart of the work.
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John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
20th Jul 2022
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.
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Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom
18th Jul 2022
The pianist talks about his recently-released recording of rags by William Bolcom, the revivalist craze that Bolcom spearheaded, and his own relationship with an indefatigable veteran of the American composing scene.
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Berg, Webern and Schoenberg from the Heath Quartet
15th Jul 2022
The UK-based string quartet bring luminous clarity and beauty to three transitional works by the Second Viennese School, with soprano Carolyn Sampson joining them for Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th July 2022
15th Jul 2022
Chopin from Louis Lortie, Beethoven from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vladimir Jurowski, and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley from The Brook Street Band and John Andrews.
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New additions to our Presto CD range from Decca
13th Jul 2022
The latest Presto CDs from the Decca catalogue feature the conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022
12th Jul 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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The Ssens Trio on Norwegian string trios
11th Jul 2022
The trio's members talk about their latest album of twentieth-century string trios from their home country.
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Francesco Piemontesi performs works for piano and orchestra by Ravel, Messiaen, and Schoenberg
8th Jul 2022
The Swiss pianist is joined by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott for a dazzlingly characterful trio of performances.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th July 2022
8th Jul 2022
This year's Sommernachtskonzert from Vienna, late Schubert from the Gewandhausorchester and Herbert Blomstedt, a third helping of Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro, and a collection of twentieth-century and contemporary choral works from Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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Barber: The Complete Songs
Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet
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Alessandro Quarta on Sixteen Seasons
6th Jul 2022
Italian violinist, composer and musical superstar Alessandro Quarta talks to Presto's Paolo Pezzangora about his new album Sixteen Seasons - juxtaposing four composers' musical responses to the seasons of the year.
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The Presto Chart - June 2022
4th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...
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Ronald Brautigam performs piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms
1st Jul 2022
Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam is joined by the Kölner Akademie and conductor Michael Alexander Willens for the first of two volumes of concertos by the composer once described as "the Dutch Beethoven".
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New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022
1st Jul 2022
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2022
30th Jun 2022
A tour de force of a recital from contemporary music diva and composer Héloïse Werner (plus a rich and varied roster of instrumental soloists), a revelatory Dichterliebe from Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov, and a superb collection of the young Ravel's ambitious submissions for the Prix de Rome...
