Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 11th August 2023
11th Aug 2023
Shostakovich and Maneein concertos from Rachel Barton Pine, Mozart from Federico Colli, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout and Laura van der Heijden, late Haydn from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and orchestral songs by Peter Warlock.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2023
8th Aug 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a recording of the Ysaÿe Sonatas that 'will be difficult to equal, let alone surpass' from Hilary Hahn on Deutsche Grammophon...
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New Release Round-Up - 4th August 2023
4th Aug 2023
A celebration of the Bach dynasty from oboist Albrecht Mayer, Tan Dun's Buddha Passion, Tchaikovsky & Schulhoff from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, and music for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from ORA & Suzi Digby.
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Oklahoma! from John Wilson and other forthcoming highlights
2nd Aug 2023
Sierra Boggess and Nathaniel Hackmann head the cast on Wilson's complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1943 musical, with other early autumn highlights including albums from Isabelle Faust, Anna Lapwood and Jakub Józef Orliński.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Nathaniel Hackmann (Curly), Sierra Boggess (Laurey), Rodney Earl Clarke (Jud Fry), Jamie Parker (Will Parker), Louise Dearman (Ado Annie), Sandra Marvin (Aunt Eller), Nadim Naaman (Ali Hakim), Leo Roberts (Andrew Carnes), Oklahoma! Ensemble, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2023
1st Aug 2023
Matchless Mahler from Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton, a starkly beautiful album of new works by Stuart MacRae from mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean & Sequoia, and a stylish Spanish recital from violinist Francesco Fullana.
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The Presto Chart - July 2023
1st Aug 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Hilary Hahn's set of the Ysaÿe sonatas for solo violin on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2023 Choices
1st Aug 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Chineke!'s 'high-octane' recording of Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto (with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason as soloist).
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New Release Round-Up - 28th July 2023
28th Jul 2023
Romantic horn concertos from Martin Owen (conducted by John Wilson), Mahler song-cycles from Dame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton, Book Two of The Well-Tempered Clavier from Ewa Pobłocka, and lute-songs old and new from Carolyn Sampson & Matthew Wadsworth.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2023
26th Jul 2023
This month's heavyweights include Ferenc Fricsay's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, a Karel Ančerl Edition on Eloquence, a 75th birthday retrospective on Kathleen Battle, and a celebration of Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chávez.
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Early Music Round-Up - Summer 2023
24th Jul 2023
Monumental Obrecht from Cappella Pratensis, Philips and Dering from the Choir of Gonville & Caius (gilded by the addition of In Echo's period instruments), a travelling composer's biography-in-music from La Serenissima, a thrilling Venetian 'battle of the bows' from Chouchane Siranossian and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, and more.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2023
21st Jul 2023
Mendelssohn from Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Bach from Bojan Čičić, a Spanish recital from violinist Francisco Fullana, and fourteen-year-old treble Malakai Bayoh's debut on Decca.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2023 Choices
18th Jul 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'truly exceptional' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 from Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on BIS.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th July 2023
14th Jul 2023
Ysaÿe from Hilary Hahn, an all-horn programme from the horn section of the Munich Opera, archive recordings of Dvořák's Mass and Te Deum from the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Václav Smetácek, and Brian Smith Walter's LGBT song-recital with Adam Johnson.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2023
12th Jul 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'superb', 'charismatic' account of Handel's Serse with Emily D’Angelo in the title role...
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Bach's Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights
10th Jul 2023
A second Bach recording from the Icelandic pianist is among the stand-out releases for the autumn, alongside Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang in Los Angeles, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, and a cinematic album from Jonas Kaufmann...
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New Release Round-Up - 7th July 2023
7th Jul 2023
Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Joachim Mendelson & Grażyna Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, and Mendelssohn & more from young Australian violinist Christian Li.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2023
6th Jul 2023
Revealed in advance of October's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Asmik Grigorian, Víkingur Ólafsson, Sean Shibe and Abel Selaocoe.
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The Presto Chart - June 2023
3rd Jul 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with British conductor Alpesh Chauhan's debut recording of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasias on Chandos in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 30th June 2023
30th Jun 2023
CPE Bach from Keith Jarrett, choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho, Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2023
29th Jun 2023
An eclectic album exploring temptation and taboo from Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu, high-octane Khachaturian from the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie and Frank Beermann, and a beguiling recital of Lieder from fin-de-siècle Vienna from Robyn Allegra Parton and Simon Lepper.
