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New Release Round-Up - 21st October 2022
21st Oct 2022
An homage to Pauline Viardot from Marina Viotti and Christophe Rousset, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from Gianandrea Noseda, the soundtrack to Tár (starring Cate Blanchett as a brilliant but flawed star conductor), and a cinematic anthology from Alexandre Tharaud.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2022
19th Oct 2022
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by Marc Minkowski's 'formidable re-evaluation' of Meyerbeer's influential but under-recorded supernatural opera Robert le Diable on Bru Zane, with John Osborn in the title-role.
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New Sony titles on Presto CD
17th Oct 2022
Legendary artists such as Jascha Heifetz, James Galway & Ben Heppner feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD catalogue.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th October 2022
14th Oct 2022
Today's new releases include Hans Rott from Jakub Hruša, Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic, Mahler from Semyon Bychkov, and Lully's Acis et Galatée from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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Celebrating Vaughan Williams at 150
12th Oct 2022
Highlights from this year's plethora of new releases marking the composer's 150th birthday include world premiere recordings of Pan's Anniversary and a number of folk-song settings, a thrilling On Wenlock Edge from Scottish tenor Nicky Spence, and symphonies from Sir Mark Elder and Martyn Brabbins.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th October 2022
7th Oct 2022
A 'fan-letter' to György Kurtág from Víkingur Ólafsson, high-octane opera duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier, French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, and Bach Orchestral Suites from John Butt and the Dunedin Consort.
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - The Winners!
4th Oct 2022
Chris reports back from tonight's ceremony in London, with full details of the overall winning recording, Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and other special awards.
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Jonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
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The Presto Chart - September 2022
3rd Oct 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Hollywood Soundstage from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London (released at the beginning of the month on Chandos) in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2022
1st Oct 2022
An irresistible Coleridge-Taylor collection from Chineke!, an exciting all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under their dynamic new Music Director, and an almost unbearably poignant Schwanengesang from Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th September 2022
30th Sep 2022
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, an all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and a celebration of neglected French composer Charlotte Sohy from new label La Boîte à Pépites.
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New Deutsche Grammophon & Decca titles added to our Presto CD range
28th Sep 2022
Baroque music from Reinhard Goebel and recitals from Kathleen Battle and Bryn Terfel feature in the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2022
27th Sep 2022
September heavyweights include a refreshed Vaughan Williams Collector's Edition on Warner Classics, Robert Levin's set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas performed on the composer's own fortepiano, and the complete sessions for Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on Sony.
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Vaughan Williams Edition 2022, Malcolm Stewart, Piers Lane (piano), Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin, Norma Burrowes (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Marie Hayward, Susan Longfield, Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Shirley Minty (contralto), Meriel Dickinson, Gloria Jennings, Ian Partridge (tenor), Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen, Richard Angas, John Noble, John Carol Case (bass-baritone), Christopher Keyte, Hugh Bean (violin), Central Band of the Royal Air Force (military band), Wing Commander Eric Banks, Larry Adler, Philip Catelinet, Stephen Roberts, Britten Quartet, Herbert Downes, Osian Ellis (harp), Gerald Moore (piano), Peter Katin (piano), Christopher Hyde-Smith, Helen Watts (contralto), Orchestra Nova of London, Jacques Orchestra, John Westbrook, John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), John Barrow, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Thomas Allen (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Russell Burgess, Robert Joyce, Music Group of London, Janet Craxton (oboe), Jennifer Partridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison, Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Meredith Davies, Jean Temperley, Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, London Philharmonic Choir, Ambrosian Singers, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Bach Choir, Choir of New College Oxford, Westminster Abbey Choir, Guildford Cathedral Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, York Minster Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult, Constantin Silvestri, Sir Charles Groves, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli, Richard Hickox, Sir David Willcocks, Edward Higginbottom, Stephen Cleobury, Barry Rose, Norman Del Mar, Sir Simon Rattle, Martin Neary
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd September 2022
23rd Sep 2022
Bruckner from Iván Fischer, an impressive, genre-defying debut album from South African cellist Abel Selaocoe, Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage from Edward Gardner, and a sparkling collection of 'lost jewels' from Belgian soprano Jodie Devos.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2022
20th Sep 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman's 'fabulous debut disc' of arias and duets by Zandonai, Mascagni, Verdi and more on Deutsche Grammophon...
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New Release Round-Up - 16th September 2022
16th Sep 2022
Weinberg from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Bruckner from Simon Rattle, a stunning debut of Baroque rarities from Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá, and a Disney album from Lang Lang.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2022 Choices
13th Sep 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust's 'indispensable' recording of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente on Harmonia Mundi in pride of place...
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Gramophone Awards 2022 - the top three in each category
9th Sep 2022
The final contenders in each of the twelve categories were revealed this morning, with Isabelle Faust, Raphaël Pichon, Leif Ove Andsnes and Alina Ibragimova among those in the running…
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New Release Round-Up - 9th September 2022
9th Sep 2022
Liszt, Wagner and Henze from Igor Levit, a wide-ranging song-inspired recital from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a celebration of two hundred years of Brazilian classical music, and Monteverdi from Jordi Savall.
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Handel's Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and other autumn highlights
7th Sep 2022
Lisette Oropesa heads a starry cast on Il Pomo d'Oro's upcoming recording of Handel's dramatic oratorio about religious persecution in ancient Rome, plus Dvořák from Leif Ove Andsnes, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and Ruth Gipps from the BBC Philharmonic.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd September 2022
2nd Sep 2022
Bach from Mahan Esfahani, Brahms from Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz, John Adams from Paavo Järvi, and Haydn from the Takács Quartet.
