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New Release Round-Up - 27th August 2021
27th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
Schubert from René Jacobs, Brahms from Alexander Melnikov, French baroque heroines from Véronique Gens, and seventeenth-century laments from Iestyn Davies and Fretwork.
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New Presto CD titles from the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue
24th Aug 2021by Paul Thomas
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Herbert von Karajan, Tamás Vásáry, Martha Argerich & Mstislav Rostropovich.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th August 2021
20th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
Norwegian opera overtures from Oslo, Haydn's L'isola disabitata from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Vivaldi's Four Seasons from thirteen-year-old violinist Christian Li, and Telemann cantatas for Hanoverian Kings.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2021
18th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
Marian Anderson's complete recordings for RCA Victor, a centenary celebration of Giuseppe Di Stefano, and a fiftieth-birthday collection from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2021
16th Aug 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Korean violinist Sueye Park's 'Journey Through A Century' in pride of place as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th August 2021
13th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
Chopin from Jan Lisiecki, Strauss from Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, works for violin and piano by Louise Farrenc, and Francis Pott's mammoth 'Passion Symphony' Christus.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2021 Choices
9th Aug 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by 'near-definitive' accounts of the Beethoven Piano Concertos from Krystian Zimerman, Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th August 2021
6th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
A French-language Carnaval des animaux from Lille, British music from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Wagner, Mahler and Berg from Anja Harteros, and Chopin and more from Alice Sara Ott.
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Liszt from Jonas Kaufmann and other forthcoming vocal highlights
4th Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
Autumn also brings an intriguing debut album from Italian-Canadian mezzo Emily D'Angelo, plus new recordings from Marianne Crebassa, Philippe Jaroussky, Ian Bostridge, and Jakub Józef Orliński.
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The Presto Chart - July 2021
2nd Aug 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Krystian Zimerman's complete Beethoven piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2021
1st Aug 2021by Katherine Cooper
An exhilarating debut recording from the C/O Chamber Orchestra in Ibert, Bartók and more, a loveable recital of love-song transcriptions from Angela Hewitt, and a superbly-paced Fidelio from Marek Janowski.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th July 2021
30th Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper
A chaconne-themed solo recital from Ilya Gringolts, Busoni from Peter Donohoe, Bruckner from Juanjo Mena, and an anthology of Welsh song from Andrew Matthews-Owen and friends.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2021
28th Jul 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Bernard Herrmann conducting his own film-scores, a multi-conductor Bruckner cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Friedrich Gulda's complete recordings on Decca, and an anthology of live recordings from the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd July 2021
23rd Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper
Lully from Les Talens Lyriques, Liszt from Olivier Latry, an avian song-recital from Roderick Williams and Andrew West, and new music for saxophone and piano by Thai and Australian composers.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2021 Choices
21st Jul 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's selection, with French pianist Lise de la Salle's 'invitation to the dance' on Naive as Recording of the Month.
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Mozart from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming instrumental highlights
20th Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper
Late summer and early autumn also bring Shostakovich and Stevenson from Igor Levit, Haydn from Paul Lewis, and a Franco-Spanish album from Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th July 2021
16th Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper
Fidelio from Marek Janowski (with Lise Davidsen in the title-role), Beethoven from the Suk Trio, and baroque violin recitals from Nicola Benedetti and Théotime Langlois de Swarte.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2021
14th Jul 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Chris introduces this month's Choices, with Mahler's Seventh Symphony from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester first among equals.
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New Presto CD titles from the Decca catalogue
12th Jul 2021by Paul Thomas
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, and Thomas Trotter.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th July 2021
9th Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper
Beethoven concertos from Krystian Zimerman, Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong, and highlights from Porgy & Bess from Marin Alsop, with Angel Blue and Lester Lynch in the title-roles.