Classical Recommendations
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Turandot from Antonio Pappano and other forthcoming highlights
31st Jan 2023
Sondra Radvanovsky and Jonas Kaufmann head the cast in a new studio recording of Puccini's final opera, with other spring highlights including the debut recording of Djibouti-born guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, and a brief history of the French ténor de grâce from Cyrille Dubois.
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Puccini: Turandot
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
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BBC Music Magazine - January 2023 Choices
30th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with a 'stunningly virtuosic' Stravinsky programme from the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis on Chandos in pride of place...
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New Release Round-Up - 27th January 2023
27th Jan 2023
Schubert and Beethoven from Mark Padmore & Mitsuko Uchida, Marais from Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexandre Tharaud, French ballet music from Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth, and Bruckner from Paavo Järvi & the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2023
25th Jan 2023
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: Shortlist
24th Jan 2023
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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New Release Round-Up - 20th January 2023
20th Jan 2023
Joseph Jongen from Ivan Ilić, Mozart from Peter Donohoe, Mahler from Claudia Huckle and Nicky Spence, and veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi in concert.
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International Classical Music Awards 2023
19th Jan 2023
The ICMA results were revealed yesterday, with winners including Ermonela Jaho, Alessandro Marangoni, Mahan Esfahani, and Asmik Grigorian.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th January 2023
13th Jan 2023
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout, Beethoven from Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lully's Psyché from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, and an album commemorating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes from The King's Singers & Fretwork.
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Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jan 2023
Other stand-out releases for early spring include a second album of English music for strings from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Schumann & Brahms from Benjamin Grosvenor, and world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds's Credo & Simon Bore the Cross.
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New Presto CD titles from Sony Classical
9th Jan 2023
Legendary Sony artists Pablo Casals, Zubin Mehta and Leonard Bernstein feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD catalogue.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th January 2023
6th Jan 2023
Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Janáček, Brahms & Bartók from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say, Malcolm Arnold from Michael Collins, and Reinecke from Simon Callaghan.
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The Presto Chart - 2022
5th Jan 2023
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Klaus Mäkelä's complete Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2022
4th Jan 2023
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Diana Damrau's sparkling 'My Christmas' on Erato in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 30th December 2022
30th Dec 2022
A Purcell double-bill from Geneva-based ensemble Les Argonautes, an all-Mozart programme from French soprano Julie Fuchs, the conclusion of William Youn's Schubert piano sonatas project, and Italian baroque Christmas music from Dorothee Mields and Dorothee Oberlinger.
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BBC Music Magazine - Christmas 2022 Choices
26th Dec 2022
Chris introduces this issue's selection, with an 'optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful' Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro on Erato in pride of place...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - December 2022
20th Dec 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a display of 'fearless daredevilry' from pianist (and high-flying international lawyer) Paul Wee in transcriptions by Liszt and Alkan on BIS...
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New Releases from Winter 2022
16th Dec 2022
Christmas with Tenebrae, the first instalment of Angela Hewitt's Mozart sonatas cycle, Andrew Gourlay's Parsifal Suite, and a second helping of Ravel from Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra.
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Véronique Gens in La Voix Humaine and other forthcoming highlights
14th Dec 2022
Other stand-out releases for early 2023 include Clara and Robert Schumann from Beatrice Rana, Mompou from Stephen Hough, Beethoven & Schubert from Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida, and Czech harpsichord concertos from Mahan Esfahani.
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BBC Music Magazine - December 2022 Choices
12th Dec 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by 'wonderfully refined orchestral playing' from the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jakub Hrůša on two discs of Brahms and Dvořák...
