Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 7th February 2020
7th Feb 2020
The St Matthew Passion from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Sibelius from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and Elgar, Chausson and more from Daniel Hope and friends.
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JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
Benjamin Bruns (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Clint van der Linde (baritone), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone), Toru Kaku (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2020
5th Feb 2020
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, with John Wilson’s French album Escales with Sinfonia of London on Chandos first among equals as Recording of the Month.
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The Presto Chart - January 2020
3rd Feb 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with Stephen Hough's late Brahms on Hyperion in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2020
31st Jan 2020
An eloquent, gently moving debut from the young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, French connections from John Wilson, and a terrific triptych of Ariannas from American mezzo Kate Lindsey.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2020
31st Jan 2020
Strauss Lieder from Diana Damrau, Helmut Deutsch and the late Mariss Jansons, French orchestral works from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London, Prokofiev from Steven Osborne, and Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Grammy Winners 2020
27th Jan 2020
Chris introduces the winning classical albums from this year's ceremony, which took place last night in Los Angeles.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2020
24th Jan 2020
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton explore Schubert, Haydn and Wolf’s ‘Divine Muses’, Swedish soprano Malin Byström makes her solo recording debut with Berg, Duparc and Rangström, and Kairos present three large-scale orchestral works by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2020
23rd Jan 2020
January collections include Claudio Abbado’s complete recordings with the Wiener Philharmoniker for Deutsche Grammophon, a celebration of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s early years, and the first complete recording of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s monumental Sequentia cyclica for solo piano.
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Recordings of the Year 2019 - Photo Gallery
22nd Jan 2020
A selection of our 2019 Recordings of the Year winners with their awards!
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International Classical Music Awards 2020
21st Jan 2020
The ICMA results were revealed this morning, with winners including recordings from Adám Fischer, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès, and the young Turkish pianist Can Çakmur.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2020
17th Jan 2020
CPE Bach from oboist Xenia Löffler and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand‘ from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas from Fazil Say, and another Liszt rarity from Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2020: Shortlist
16th Jan 2020
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Benjamin Grosvenor's Chopin and other forthcoming highlights
15th Jan 2020
The young British pianist records the two concertos with Elim Chan and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, plus two Adès world premiere recordings and new releases from Adam Laloum, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Isabelle Faust, and Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th January 2020
10th Jan 2020
Elgar from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Andris Nelsons’s first New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna, Handel’s first opera Almira from Boston, and Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold from soprano Camilla Tilling.
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Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Ben Davies (cello), Hannah Roberts (cello), Josephine Knight (cello), Caroline Dearnley (cello), Ashok Klouda (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass), The Heath Quartet, Gary Pomeroy (viola), Oliver Heath (violin), Sara Wolstenholme (violin), Chris Murray (cello), Plinio Fernandes (guitar), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin), Alinka Rowe (viola), Ayla Sahin (violin), Robert Max (cello), Desmond Neysmith (cello), Rowena Calvert (cello), Nicholas Trygstad (cello), Jo Cole (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2020
7th Jan 2020
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Stephen Hough's 'imaginative yet learned' accounts of Brahms's late piano works (released last Friday on Hyperion) in pride of place.
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Titles from The British Collection added to Presto CD
6th Jan 2020
Seventeen titles from Decca's British Collection make up our latest Presto CD additions, including recordings of Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Holst, Tippett and Walton.
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Britten: The Little Sweep, A Boy was Born
Jennifer Vyvyan, April Cantelo, Marilyn Baker, Gabrielle Soskin, David Hemmings, Michael Ingram, Robin Fairhurst, Lyn Vaughan, Nancy Thomas, Peter Pears, Trevor Anthony, Michael Hartnett (treble) Choir of Alleyn's School, English Opera Group Orchestra, Purcell Singers, Boys' Voices of the English Opera Group, Choristers of All Saints, Margaret Street, Benjamin Britten
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd January 2020
3rd Jan 2020
Schtschedrin and Respighi from the late Mariss Jansons, late Brahms from Stephen Hough, the start of a promising Ockeghem series from award-winning vocal ensemble Blue Heron, and a scintillating debut from young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, who won last year’s Carl Nielsen Competition.
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The Presto Chart - 2019
2nd Jan 2020
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Isabelle Faust's Bach concertos (and assorted extras!) with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2019
1st Jan 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang's recital of Franck and Chopin on Erato in first place...
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2019
29th Dec 2019
Anthologies devoted to Moura Lympany, Ernst Haefliger, Karl Münchinger and Solomon, plus collection of Russian chamber music and a 56-disc Mendelssohn Edition on Hänssler.
