Classical Recommendations
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Opus Klassik Awards 2021
13th Oct 2021
Chris rounds up the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards, following a gala concert at the Konzerthaus Berlin last weekend.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2021 Choices
11th Oct 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Francesca Dego's 'cherishable' accounts of Mozart violin concertos with Roger Norrington and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th October 2021
8th Oct 2021
Music by the Bach family from Daniil Trifonov, the Tchaikovsky symphonies from Paavo Järvi in Zurich, a 'journey between different cultures' from Philippe Jaroussky and Thibaut Garcia, and a nature-themed song recital from Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Gramophone Awards 2021 - Recording of the Year
6th Oct 2021
The overall winner was revealed at an online ceremony last night, along with other special prizes including Artist of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The Presto Chart - September 2021
3rd Oct 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Víkingur Ólafsson's Mozart & Contemporaries on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - September 2021
2nd Oct 2021
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Florence Price project from Philadelphia gets off to an electrifying start, Lucas Debargue and Gidon Kremer prove energetic champions of Polish composer-pianist Miłosz Magin, and the Marian and Illyria Consorts join forces for an illuminating Adriatic Voyage.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st October 2021
1st Oct 2021
British solo cello music from Steven Isserlis, Beethoven from Martin Helmchen and Frank Peter Zimmermann, Canteloube from Carolyn Sampson, and Elgar from Julia Sitkovetsky and Christopher Glynn.
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Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason's first duo album and other forthcoming highlights
29th Sep 2021
The siblings team up for cello sonatas by Barber and Rachmaninov, Cecilia Bartoli mines her archives, and Ádám Fischer completes his acclaimed Mahler cycle from Düsseldorf.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th September 2021
24th Sep 2021
Price from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chopin from Beatrice Rana, Buxtehude from Arcangelo, and Bellini's Il Pirata starring Marina Rebeka and Javier Camarena.
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Gramophone Awards 2021 - The Winners!
22nd Sep 2021
The winning recordings in each of the eleven categories were revealed today.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2021
20th Sep 2021
Heavyweight collections of recordings by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl Böhm and Igor Markevitch, plus Beethoven piano sonata cycles by Boris Giltburg and Rudolf Buchbinder.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th September 2021
17th Sep 2021
Bach from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and two guest stars, opera arias from Georgian baritone George Gagnidze, Liszt from Charles Owen, and Jommelli from Ian Page and The Mozartists.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - October 2021
13th Sep 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Igor Levit's 'magisterial' accounts of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues and Ronald Stevenson's On DSCH coming out on top as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th September 2021
10th Sep 2021
Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson from Igor Levit, Rachmaninov from Robin Ticciati, Arvo Pärt from Renaud Capuçon in Lausanne, and Bartók, Mussorgsky and Brahms from Magdalena Kožená.
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24 New Decca titles now on Presto CD
8th Sep 2021
The centuries spanning selection includes music by Victoria, Mozart & Shostakovich, and artists including Albrecht Mayer & Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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BBC Music Magazine - October 2021 Choices
7th Sep 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Sean Shibe's Camino (our best-selling title for August) as Recording of the Month.
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The Presto Chart - August 2021
6th Sep 2021
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with guitarist Sean Shibe's Franco-Spanish recital Camino on Pentatone in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd September 2021
3rd Sep 2021
Mahler, Ives and Grime from Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton, British oboe quintets from Nicholas Daniel, organist Anna Lapwood's first solo recording, and Strauss from François-Xavier Roth in Köln.
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Gramophone Awards 2021 - The Shortlist
1st Sep 2021
This year's six contenders in each of the eleven categories were revealed today.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2021
31st Aug 2021
A vividly-painted gallery of French Classical heroines from Véronique Gens, Bull and Byrd in glorious technicolour from Kit Armstrong, and a mesmerising recital of songs by Irish composer Ina Boyle.
