Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 29th September 2023
29th Sep 2023
Puccini from Jonathan Tetelman, French song-cycles from Marie-Nicole Lemieux, George Walker's complete sinfonias from the National Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda, and a nocturnal organ recital from Anna Lapwood.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2023
27th Sep 2023
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
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A Life With Shostakovich
26th Sep 2023
In the first instalment of our Recollections series, Hoi F. Cheu PhD (Director of the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity at Laurentian University and Director of Doran Planetarium) recounts how a teenage encounter with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony shaped his extraordinary dual career - and several close relationships...
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd September 2023
22nd Sep 2023
Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde from Opera Rara, Wagner's Siegfried from Sir Simon Rattle in Munich, a tribute to Agustín Barrios from guitarist Thibaut Garcia, and works inspired by the Amazon from Philharmonia Zurich & Simone Menezes.
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Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O'Neill (Siegfried), Michael Volle (Der Wanderer), Peter Hoare (Mime), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Franz-Josef Selig (Fafner), Gerhild Romberger (Erda), Danae Kontora (Waldvogel), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
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Verismo from Domingo Hindoyan and other forthcoming highlights
19th Sep 2023
The Venezuelan conductor and his Liverpool orchestra thrill in preludes & intermezzi by Mascagni, Cilea, Wolf-Ferrari et al, with other stand-outs for late autumn including Saint-Saëns from Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth and a Norwegian Christmas album from Lise Davidsen.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2023
18th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by the world premiere recording of Parry's Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' from the London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus and William Vann on Chandos.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th September 2023
15th Sep 2023
A trip to the movies with Jonas Kaufmann, an album of Stephen Hough's choral music, Florence Price and William Dawson from Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Philadelphia, and Bartók's piano concertos from Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2023 Choices
12th Sep 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place, 'investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour' in their Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff album...
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Gramophone Awards 2023 - Finalists Revealed
8th Sep 2023
The final contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed this morning, with Rachel Podger, Mahan Esfahani, Marc-André Hamelin and Quatuor Ebène among those in the running…
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New Release Round-Up - 8th September 2023
8th Sep 2023
Virtuosic Locatelli concertos from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico, regal Haydn symphonies from the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini, finely-shaded Mahler from Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s complex opera blending Gothic horror and Greek tragedy.
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The Presto Chart - August 2023
4th Sep 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st September 2023
1st Sep 2023
A Shakespeare Songbook from Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, Mozart from the late Lars Vogt in Paris, and Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2023
31st Aug 2023
Early music meets French cabaret in an intriguing collaboration between Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Le Poème Harmonique, Liam Bonthrone and Benjamin Mead explore salon-culture in Paris and New York, and Antoni Wit champions the music of his compatriot Zygmunt Noskowski.
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Satie & Cage from Bertrand Chamayou and other forthcoming highlights
29th Aug 2023
Stand-out releases for the autumn also include French repertoire from Steven Osborne, Alexandre Tharaud and Bruce Liu, Baroque albums from Miloš Karadaglić and Avi Avital, and the final instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th August 2023
25th Aug 2023
Nielsen concertos from Fabio Luisi, Bruckner's Eighth Symphony from Paavo Järvi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová from the Salzburg Festival, and an intriguing fusion of early music and cabaret-songs from Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Le Poème Harmonique.
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53 new titles added to our Presto CD range from Sony Classical
23rd Aug 2023
Musicals from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter & Stephen Sondheim and the music of J.S. Bach feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2023
22nd Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, with 'an absolute belter' of a Tchaikovsky Five from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in pride of place as Recording of the Month...
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Introducing our Recollections project
21st Aug 2023
Presto Music is a company run by music-lovers, for music-lovers, so this is a call-out for your own personal stories - if you have an interesting tale behind a much-loved recording, we would love you to share it with us...
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New Release Round-Up - 18th August 2023
18th Aug 2023
The debut solo recording of Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone, a tribute to Tebaldi from American soprano Melody Moore, Rubinstein piano concertos from Anna Shelest & Neeme Järvi, and Liszt's Faust Symphony from Kirill Karabits in Weimar.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2023 Choices
17th Aug 2023
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'stunningly recorded' account of Hans Sørensen’s suite of excerpts from Bernard Herrmann's only opera Wuthering Heights (starring Keri Fuge as Cathy and Roderick Williams as Heathcliff).
