Classical Recommendations
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Gramophone Awards 2020 - The Shortlist
2nd Sep 2020
This year's six contenders in each of the ten categories were revealed yesterday.
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2020
31st Aug 2020
Gothic operas from Missy Mazzoli and Saint-Saëns, Fazil Say's complete works for violin, and a startlingly atmospheric song-cycle for mezzo and orchestra by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2020
28th Aug 2020
Mahler from Vladimir Jurowski, Shostakovich from Alban Gerhardt, Mozart from Francesco Piemontesi and Andrew Manze, and Melly Still's Glyndebourne production of Rusalka on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2020
25th Aug 2020
Beethoven from the Smetana Quartet, a 75th birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and a DVD collection celebrating the centenary of the Salzburg Festival.
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26 new Sony titles added to Presto CD
24th Aug 2020
Including Rachmaninov from Ruth Laredo, Glenn Gould live in Leningrad, Nielsen from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Richard Strauss from Zubin Mehta.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2020
21st Aug 2020
Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout & Pablo Heras-Casado, Schumann from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, vintage Elgar from America, and a French recital from oboist François Leleux.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2020
18th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's Choices, headed by Vladimir Jurowski's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Sarah Connolly, Robert Dean Smith and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Pentatone.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2020
14th Aug 2020
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini on DVD from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel concerti grossi from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, early Beethoven from Jos van Immerseel, and Bernard Haitink’s farewell to Salzburg.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2020 Choices
11th Aug 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the Cleveland Orchestra’s eclectic celebration of their centenary (featuring two world premieres commissioned for the occasion) as Recording of the Month.
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New Sony titles added to Presto CD
10th Aug 2020
Including Mahler from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bach from Charles Rosen, and several recordings from Anner Bylsma and Tafelmusik.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th August 2020
7th Aug 2020
Dvořák from Kian Soltani and Daniel Barenboim, Rachmaninov from Sergei Babayan, the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth's choral symphony The Prison, and a new large-scale recording project from Max Richter.
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The Presto Chart - July 2020
5th Aug 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Paul Lewis's Beethoven Bagatelles on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2020
31st Jul 2020
Vaughan Williams and Finzi from Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Satie from Noriko Ogawa, and two new works for baroque orchestra and voices by Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning American composer Caroline Shaw.
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2020
30th Jul 2020
A terrific debut solo recording featuring Britten and Liszt confirms the young British tenor Stuart Jackson as a major talent, whilst Chandos release two twentieth-century masterpieces centring on incarceration.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2020
29th Jul 2020
Centenary celebrations of Isaac Stern and the Salzburg Festival, a seventy-fifth birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and Delitiae Musicae's complete Monteverdi madrigals on Naxos.
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Presto CD additions on DG, Decca and DG Archiv
27th Jul 2020
Including Beethoven from Krystian Zimerman, Bernstein conducting Bernstein, Bach from Alexis Weissenberg, and the complete works of Varèse.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th July 2020
24th Jul 2020
Elgar from Elīna Garanča and Daniel Barenboim, Telemann from Barthold Kuijken, an arresting debut recording from The Hermes Experiment, and three neglected British clarinet concertos from Robert Plane.
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Ermonela Jaho's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
22nd Jul 2020
The Albanian soprano celebrates the legacy of Rosina Storchio on Opera Rara, plus new albums from Diana Damrau, Alexandre Kantorow, Jonas Kaufmann and others.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2020
21st Jul 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, headed by a ‘formidable’ account of Luigi Dallapiccola’s one-act opera Il Prigioniero from Gianandrea Noseda on Chandos.
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New Release Round-Up 17th July 2020
17th Jul 2020
Nielsen from Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony, Beethoven from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, two works for voice and orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas, and a Domingo fiftieth anniversary gala from Verona on DVD and Blu-ray.
