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Bojan Čičić on Adriatic Voyage
13th Jan 2022
The Croatian violinist talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of 'Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia', released on Delphian last summer and featuring music by composers including Francesco and Gabriele Usper, Ivan Lukačić and Tomaso Cecchino.
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Maria Ewing (1950-2022)
12th Jan 2022
The American opera-singer, a riveting actress whose repertoire encompassed soprano and mezzo roles, has died aged 71.
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Francis Jackson (1917-2022)
11th Jan 2022
The British organist, choirmaster and composer, who wrote many pieces of well-loved church music as well as a biography of Edward Bairstow, has died aged 104.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2022
10th Jan 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes's 'beautifully unaffected and honest' Grieg recital on Decca.
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Grieg from Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes
7th Jan 2022
The two Norwegians do their countryman proud in a programme which includes Haugtussa, Five Songs by Otto Benzon, and the Six Songs Op. 48.
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Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 7th January 2022
7th Jan 2022
Telemann from Antoine Tamestit, a transatlantic recital from Tom Poster and Elena Urioste, a tribute to a Czech horn virtuoso from Teunis van der Zwart and Alexander Melnikov, and Brahms from Michael Collins and Stephen Hough.
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Jaime Martín on his second career
6th Jan 2022
The Spanish conductor talks to Katherine about swapping his flute for a baton, his recent recording of Mozart Wind Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, and taking up his new role as Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra this season.
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2021 Goodbyes
5th Jan 2022
A short video tribute remembering some of the musicians who died during 2021.
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The Presto Chart - 2021
4th Jan 2022
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Víkingur Ólafsson's recital of music by Mozart and his contemporaries leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2021
3rd Jan 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with An Elizabethan Christmas from Fretwork and mezzo Helen Charlston on Signum in first place...
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Marc-André Hamelin plays CPE Bach
31st Dec 2021
The Canadian pianist's Midas touch is everywhere in evidence on this programme of sonatas and rondos, many of which reveal the composer's delight in the new expressive possibilities offered by early pianos.
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2022 Choices
30th Dec 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'joyful feast' of Korngold's chamber music from the Eusebius Quartet and pianist Alasdair Beatson on SOMM.
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Anna Netrebko on Amata dalle tenebre
29th Dec 2021
The Russian soprano answers some quick questions about her new album on Deutsche Grammophon, featuring arias from operas including Dido and Aeneas, Ariadne auf Naxos, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2021
28th Dec 2021
End-of-year heavyweights include Erich Kleiber's complete recordings for Decca, Alessandro Marangoni's survey of Rossini's 'sins of old age', a boundary-crossing anthology of Yo-Yo Ma albums, and a thirtieth-anniversary celebration of the Praga label.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2021
24th Dec 2021
Recordings from Igor Levit, Ensemble Diderot and Will Liverman & Paul Sánchez feature among the editorial team's individual picks of the year.
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Joyce DiDonato's EDEN and other forthcoming vocal and opera highlights
24th Dec 2021
The American mezzo and Il Pomo d'Oro explore 'the power and fragility of Nature', Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andnes join forces for an all-Grieg recital, and Hans Abrahamsen's opera The Snow Queen (starring Barbara Hannigan as Gerda) receives its DVD/Blu-ray premiere.
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Aleksandra Kurzak on Mozart
23rd Dec 2021
The Polish soprano talks to Katherine about drawing on her background as a violinist to direct the Morphing Chamber Orchestra on her new recording of opera arias with obbligato instruments.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2021
21st Dec 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by French soprano Sabine Devieilhe's 'almost indecently ravishing' recital of Bach and Handel on Erato.
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John Mitchinson (1932-2021)
20th Dec 2021
The versatile English tenor, who excelled as Gerontius and Tristan as well as in Czech repertoire, has died aged 89.
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Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong
17th Dec 2021
The American pianist makes the case for considering the two Tudor virginalists William Byrd and John Bull as the founding fathers of the solo piano genre.
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The Visionaries of Piano Music
Kit Armstrong (piano)
