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The Presto Chart - August 2020
3rd Sep 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Nicola Benedetti's Elgar Violin Concerto with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place...
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Gramophone Awards 2020 - The Shortlist
2nd Sep 2020
This year's six contenders in each of the ten categories were revealed yesterday.
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Claudio Cavina (1962-2020)
1st Sep 2020
The Italian countertenor, conductor and co-founder of La Venexiana, whose Monteverdi recordings were particularly acclaimed, has died aged 58.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2020
31st Aug 2020
Gothic operas from Missy Mazzoli and Saint-Saëns, Fazil Say's complete works for violin, and a startlingly atmospheric song-cycle for mezzo and orchestra by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen.
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Marc-André Hamelin plays Liszt and Thalberg
28th Aug 2020
The Canadian pianist is on jaw-dropping form in a programme inspired by the 1837 'duel' between the two composer-virtuosos, which also includes the mighty collaborative Hexaméron - a set of variations on Bellini by composers including Chopin, Czerny and Pixis.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2020
28th Aug 2020
Mahler from Vladimir Jurowski, Shostakovich from Alban Gerhardt, Mozart from Francesco Piemontesi and Andrew Manze, and Melly Still's Glyndebourne production of Rusalka on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Nicholas Collon on Music of the Spheres
27th Aug 2020
Aurora Orchestra's Principal Conductor talks to Katherine about their debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon, featuring music by Mozart, Thomas Adès, Max Richter, Dowland/Nico Muhly and David Bowie.
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Luís Toscano on Duarte Lobo's choral music
26th Aug 2020
Luís Toscano, director of Portuguese vocal consort Cupertinos, talks about the group's new recording of two previously unrecorded masses by Duarte Lobo plus Christmas responsories and motets.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2020
25th Aug 2020
Beethoven from the Smetana Quartet, a 75th birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and a DVD collection celebrating the centenary of the Salzburg Festival.
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26 new Sony titles added to Presto CD
24th Aug 2020
Including Rachmaninov from Ruth Laredo, Glenn Gould live in Leningrad, Nielsen from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Richard Strauss from Zubin Mehta.
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Tallis, MacMillan and more from ORA Singers
21st Aug 2020
ORA Singers pair Tallis's mighty Spem in Alium with a newly-composed forty-part motet by James MacMillan, alongside a treasure-trove of choral works commissioned by Tudor nobility.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2020
21st Aug 2020
Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout & Pablo Heras-Casado, Schumann from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, vintage Elgar from America, and a French recital from oboist François Leleux.
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Anna Patalong and Benedict Nelson on Miss Julie
20th Aug 2020
The British soprano and baritone (and real-life couple) discuss bringing William Alwyn's unjustly neglected opera to life last year for a concert-performance at the Barbican followed by a studio recording, released on Chandos last month.
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Episode 3: A Scandinavian Sojourn with Andrew Mellor
20th Aug 2020
Music writer Andrew Mellor takes our host Paul Thomas on a musical grand tour of the Nordic nations, spotlighting several contemporary composers as well as pieces by Nielsen, Grieg and Sibelius.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2020
18th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Vladimir Jurowski's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Sarah Connolly, Robert Dean Smith and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Pentatone.
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Joan Enric Lluna on Rodrigo
17th Aug 2020
Spanish conductor Joan Enric Lluna talks to David about his new album celebrating the breadth of Joaquín Rodrigo's compositional output.
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Julian Bream (1933-2020)
14th Aug 2020
The pioneering British guitarist and lutenist, who catalysed a widespread revival of interest in both instruments and inspired a huge body of new music for guitar, has died aged 87.
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John Williams conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
14th Aug 2020
Joined by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams conducts excerpts from scores such as Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War Horse, Hook, Jurassic Park, Jaws, The Witches of Eastwick, and more.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2020
14th Aug 2020
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini on DVD from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel concerti grossi from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, early Beethoven from Jos van Immerseel, and Bernard Haitink’s farewell to Salzburg.
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Eric Whitacre on The Sacred Veil
13th Aug 2020
Eric Whitacre talks about his forthcoming album, the deeply personal choral work The Sacred Veil, written in collaboration with Charles Anthony Silvestri.
