Classical Recommendations
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The Presto Chart - July 2024
1st Aug 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Mishka Rushdie Momen's debut album on Hyperion (featuring keyboard music by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull and Sweelinck) in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2024
31st Jul 2024
This month's heavyweights include Joan Sutherland's recital and oratorio recordings for Decca, a centenary celebration of Tatiana Nikolayeva, Smetana's complete operas on Supraphon, and Hansjörg Albrecht's survey of Bruckner's symphonies in transcriptions for organ.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th July 2024
26th Jul 2024
A collection of chamber works by the Australian-born composer Jane Stanley, Paganini and The Butterfly Lovers Concerto from Chloe Chua, Smetana's complete operas on Supraphon, and (on DVD/Blu-ray) Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Christian Thielemann and Dmitri Tcherniakov in Berlin.
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New Presto CD titles from Sony
22nd Jul 2024
We are pleased to add 55 titles to our Presto CD catalogue of Sony recordings, many of which have been unavailable on CD (and in some cases any format) for some time.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2024
19th Jul 2024
Bruckner and Bates from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, a fourth volume of Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, a second helping of African Pianism from Rebeca Omordia, and a recital of Schumann, Ravel & Prokofiev from Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist George Li.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2024
17th Jul 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by an 'enchanting, engrossing and impeccably recorded' recital of Lieder by Schubert and Loewe from Konstantin Krimmel & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th July 2024
12th Jul 2024
Schumann and Loewe from Konstantin Krimmel & Ammiel Bushakevitz, Schoenberg and Fauré from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi, Brahms's complete symphonies from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Wiener Philharmoniker's recent Sommernachtskonzert from Schönbrunn Palace.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2024 Choices
9th Jul 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'passionate, committed' accounts of Brahms's String Quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and violist Lilli Maijala on BIS.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2024
5th Jul 2024
An Irish album from Daniel Hope & friends, Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček from Prague, Stanford's Te Deum & Elegiac Ode from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and folk-inspired works by Suk, Smetana, Coleridge-Taylor & Frank Martin from the Neave Trio.
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The Presto Chart - June 2024
2nd Jul 2024
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Sibelius and Prokofiev violin concertos from Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä in Oslo in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2024
30th Jun 2024
June heavyweights include a celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 80, Osmo Vänskä's complete set of Mahler symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra, and anthologies dedicated to Josef Krips and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Kiri Te Kanawa: A Celebration
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Lynn Harrell (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano), José Carreras (tenor), Wiener Kammerorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music,Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, György Fischer, Colin Davis, Jeffrey Tate, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Georg Solti, Seji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Bernstein
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2024
28th Jun 2024
Gaspard Le Roux from William Christie & Justin Taylor, Tudor keyboard music from Mishka Rushdie Momen, French opera overtures from the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi, and Wagner's Parsifal from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival (conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, with Andreas Schager in the title-role).
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Wagner: Parsifal
Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Elīna Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Derek Welton (Amfortas), Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor), Tobias Kehrer (Titurel) Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Opus Klassik Awards 2024
25th Jun 2024
Revealed in advance of October's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust, Reginald Mobley and Klaus Mäkelä.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2024 Choices
25th Jun 2024
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of The Dream of Gerontius 'that every Elgarian should have' from Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli on Signum, with Nicky Spence in the title-role.
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Horns, Handley and the Heavens - My Life In Music
24th Jun 2024
Our Head of Digital David Smith introduces some of the recordings that have moulded his musical tastes - from Romantic orchestral heavyweights to early sacred music.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2024
21st Jun 2024
Mahler on period instruments from the Mahler Academy Orchestra and Philipp von Steinaecker, Schubert and Desyatnikov from Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, rarely-heard Verdi from Freddie De Tommaso, and the final instalment of Mozart concertos from Robert Levin.
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From Bach to Westlake … and Bach
17th Jun 2024
In the latest instalment of our Recollections series, retired South African Anglican priest and amateur trumpet-player Mike McCoy reflects on some of the recordings which have shaped his musical tastes - featuring artists including Wendy Carlos and Wolfgang Gönnenwein....
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New Release Round-Up - 14th June 2024
14th Jun 2024
'Songs of Death and Resurrection' from Samuel Hasselhorn, a tribute to Peter Pears from Robin Tritschler, Malcolm Martineau & friends, collaborations with Michael Berkeley, and a second album of music by Kenneth Fuchs from Sinfonia of London & John Wilson.
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New Presto CD titles from Chandos
13th Jun 2024
We’re delighted to announce the addition of Chandos to our Presto CD offering, starting with 30 titles which have been unavailable on CD for several years.
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Parsifal from Pablo Heras-Casado and other forthcoming highlights
10th Jun 2024
Andreas Schager, Elīna Garanča and Georg Zeppenfeld head the cast on this live recording from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival, with other highlights for the summer including music by the Mendelssohn siblings from Isata Kanneh-Mason, a second volume of African Pianism from Rebeca Omordia, and a Weill triptych from Joana Mallwitz.
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Wagner: Parsifal
Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Elīna Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Derek Welton (Amfortas), Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor), Tobias Kehrer (Titurel) Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Pablo Heras-Casado
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