Classical Recommendations
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2022
12th Jul 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by a survey of Fauré's complete songs from French lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës which 'should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating'...
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New Release Round-Up - 8th July 2022
8th Jul 2022
This year's Sommernachtskonzert from Vienna, late Schubert from the Gewandhausorchester and Herbert Blomstedt, a third helping of Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro, and a collection of twentieth-century and contemporary choral works from Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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The Presto Chart - June 2022
4th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022
1st Jul 2022
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2022
30th Jun 2022
A tour de force of a recital from contemporary music diva and composer Héloïse Werner (plus a rich and varied roster of instrumental soloists), a revelatory Dichterliebe from Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov, and a superb collection of the young Ravel's ambitious submissions for the Prix de Rome...
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New Release Round-Up - 24th June 2022
24th Jun 2022
Massenet orchestral songs with soloists including Véronique Gens and Étienne Dupuis, Vivaldi from Les Arts Florissants, music by three Latvian composers from Kremerata Baltica, and Bach from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Alon Sariel.
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BBC Music Magazine - July 2022 Choices
23rd Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by the 'greatest recording' of Handel's 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione from Harry Bicket and The English Concert on Linn.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2022
21st Jun 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th June 2022
17th Jun 2022
A musical journey 'in the footsteps of Rumi', Chopin & Rachmaninoff from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, Mozart & Voříšek from Herbert Blomstedt, and Strauss from Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.
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Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
16th Jun 2022
The Chilean-American tenor's album of French and Italian opera arias will be released in August, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Mahler from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2022
15th Jun 2022
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by 'extraordinary and revelatory' Ravel from Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth on Harmonia Mundi.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th June 2022
10th Jun 2022
Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give world premieres of music by their compatriots, plus David Lang's the writings, Grieg from Peter Donohoe, and John Ireland from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2022 Choices
8th Jun 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'mesmerising' debut recording of Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland from the Castalian String Quartet on Delphian.
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New Presto CD titles from the Decca & DG catalogues
6th Jun 2022
Performances from Andras Schiff and music of the First Viennese School feature in the latest additions to the Presto CD range.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd June 2022
3rd Jun 2022
Bolcom rags from Marc-André Hamelin, Hahn from Pavel Kolesnikov, Schumann from Pablo Heras-Casado, and the world premiere recording of Handel's pasticcio Caio Fabriccio from London Early Opera.
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Presto Editor's Choices - May 2022
2nd Jun 2022
Starkly beautiful Purcell, Strozzi, Eccles and Park from Helen Charlston and Toby Carr, plus a vivid, vulnerable Violetta from Lisette Oropesa on Pentatone's new Traviata, and punch-packing Rachmaninov from Steven Osborne on Hyperion.
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The Presto Chart - May 2022
1st Jun 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Brahms quintets from the Pavel Haas Quartet and guests Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl on Supraphon in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 27th May 2022
27th May 2022
Rameau from György Vashegyi, Lisette Oropesa in La traviata, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and a box-set of the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies with Richard Hickox & Sir Andrew Davis.
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2022
24th May 2022
May heavyweights include Wilhelm Kempff's collected Decca and Polydor recordings, the Richard Hickox/Andrew Davis cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's complete Philips Recordings, and a fortieth-birthday anthology from Capriccio.
