Classical Recommendations
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The Presto Chart - August 2022
1st Sep 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Alison Balsom's Quiet City (released last Friday on Warner Classics) in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2022
31st Aug 2022
Mahler from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, a beguiling 'emporium of curiosities' from Sean Shibe, and Wolf Lieder in full orchestral technicolour from Benjamin Appl and the Jenaer Philharmonie.
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Opus Klassik Awards 2022
30th Aug 2022
Revealed this morning in advance of next month's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Igor Levit, Lea Desandre, Vladimir Jurowski and Kian Soltani.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th August 2022
26th Aug 2022
Brahms symphonies from Ádám Fischer, Johann Jakob Walther from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Sean Shibe's Lost & Found, and early English keyboard music from Giulia Nuti.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2022
23rd Aug 2022
August heavyweights include a set of Pablo Casals's late chamber music recordings for Philips, the complete Schubert piano sonatas from Elisabeth Leonskaja, and an anthology of French baroque music from the Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
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Pablo Casals: The Philips Legacy
Karl Engel (piano), Pablo Casals (cello, condutor), Various Soloists & Orchestras, Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), Sandor Végh (violin), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Végh Quartet (string quartet), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, Maurice Gendron (cello), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2022 Choices
22nd Aug 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, with concertos and orchestral works by Wieniawski, Dobrzyński & Kurpiński from the Orchestra of the 18th Century in pride of place...
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New Release Round-Up - 19th August 2022
19th Aug 2022
Britten from Andrew Staples and Daniel Harding, late Schubert from René Jacobs and B'rock Orchestra, Secret Love Letters from Lisa Batiashvili, and John Cage from the Latvian Radio Choir.
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Igor Levit's Tristan and other forthcoming highlights
16th Aug 2022
Other stand-out releases for the autumn include French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, Szymanowski from Krystian Zimerman, Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, and a Kurtág-inspired musical autobiography from Víkingur Ólafsson.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th August 2022
12th Aug 2022
Martinů from Roger Norrington, Britten and Bridge played on a viola previously owned by both composers, piano duets by four British composers, and a final helping of Mozart from the Armida Quartett.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2022
9th Aug 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a 'deliciously honest' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th August 2022
5th Aug 2022
Bach concertos from Masato Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 from Christian Lindberg, the Emperor Quartet's complete Britten recordings, and Vaughan Williams for brass band.
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The Presto Chart - July 2022
2nd Aug 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Ronald Brautigam's recording of piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms on BIS in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2022
30th Jul 2022
World premiere recordings of works by Jörg Widmann, Lennox Berkeley and John Frederick Lampe, plus an outstanding Respighi recital from Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th July 2022
29th Jul 2022
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's Houses of the Wind.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2022
27th Jul 2022
July heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete solo recordings on Decca, Reinhard Goebel's complete recordings on Archiv Produktion, a celebration of Eugene Ormandy's five-year stint in Minneapolis, and the collected works of John Adams on Nonesuch.
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New Presto CDs from Deutsche Grammophon
26th Jul 2022
Gidon Kremer playing Mozart and Karl Böhm and Rafael Kubelik conducting Wagner are amongst the latest additions to our Presto CD range.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd July 2022
22nd Jul 2022
Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.
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Vladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
20th Jul 2022
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th July 2022
15th Jul 2022
Chopin from Louis Lortie, Beethoven from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vladimir Jurowski, and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley from The Brook Street Band and John Andrews.
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New additions to our Presto CD range from Decca
13th Jul 2022
The latest Presto CDs from the Decca catalogue feature the conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
