Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019
9th Aug 2019
World premiere recordings of music by Ned Rorem, Dan Locklair and Airat Ichmouratov, plus vintage Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon and Helen Watts from the Australian Eloquence archives.
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BBC Music Magazine - September 2019 Choices
7th Aug 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Vox Luminis, the Jerusalem Quartet, Elizabeth Kenny, Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, and Alamire.
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A Soirée with Magdalena Kožená & Simon Rattle and other forthcoming highlights
6th Aug 2019
Ravel, Dvořák, Stravinsky and more from the Czech mezzo and family/friends, plus Chopin from Pavel Kolesnikov, Beethoven from Christian Tetzlaff and Jan Lisiecki, Schubert from Francesco Piemontesi, and Mozart from Daniel Behle.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd August 2019
2nd Aug 2019
New releases from Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivan Ilić, and Van Cliburn competition-winner Haochen Zhang, plus the penultimate instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Rolando Villazón’s Mozart opera project on Deutsche Grammophon.
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The Presto Chart - July 2019
1st Aug 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Isata Kanneh-Mason's bicentenary celebration of Clara Schumann in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2019
31st Jul 2019
An utterly enthralling debut recital from American soprano Melody Moore, a pacey period-instrument account of Weber’s Oberon from the Stadttheater Gießen, and eclectic new concertos for violin and clarinet from Wynton Marsalis and Joseph Phibbs.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th July 2019
26th Jul 2019
New releases from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, and the Hilliard Ensemble in one of their final recordings.
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and other autumn highlights
24th Jul 2019
The maverick Moldovian violinist records music by Hartmann, Frank Martin and John Zorn, plus Strauss from Riccardo Chailly, Falla from Pablo Heras-Casado, Brahms from Daniel Harding, and a live recording of Tristan und Isolde starring Stuart Skelton and Gun-Brit Barkmin.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2019
19th Jul 2019
New releases from Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist Jan Vogler and the late Jörg Demus, plus world premiere recordings of operas by Goldschmidt and Cavalli, and the final instalment of Carus’s venerable Complete Schütz Edition.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2019
17th Jul 2019
An overview of the Hungarian conductor’s legacy with the Wiener Philharmoniker, a collection of British music from Sir Andrew Davis, Ádám Fischer’s Beethoven symphonies, and a 150th birthday celebration from the Wiener Staatsoper.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - August 2019
16th Jul 2019
Chris introduces this month’s Choices, with a superb Janáček recital from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends on Hyperion first among equals as Recording of the Month.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th July 2019
12th Jul 2019
New releases from Nicola Benedetti, Gustavo Dudamel and percussionist Vivi Vassileva, plus a Rossini rarity from Bad Wildbad, Salome from the Salzburg Festival, and a celebration of the Verbier Festival’s 25th anniversary.
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Igor Levit's complete Beethoven sonatas and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jul 2019
The Russian-German pianist's early commemoration of next year's 250th anniversary will be released on Sony in September, plus new recordings from Daniil Trifonov, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès, and Ildar Abdrazakov.
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2019 Choices
10th Jul 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Christophe Rousset, Michael Fabiano, Sandrine Piau and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019
New releases from Delphine Galou, Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Maxim Vengerov, plus landmark accounts of Delius’s Sea Drift and Weber’s Euryanthe from the archives.
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The Presto Chart - June 2019
2nd Jul 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Lise Davidsen's debut album of Wagner and Strauss on Decca in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2019
1st Jul 2019
Intensely dramatic Janáček from Nicky Spence, Julius Drake and friends, an operatic oratorio on The Fall of Man by Josef Mysliveček, and an intriguing debut album of chamber works from octogenarian composer Erika Fox.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2019
19th Jun 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances's vivid accounts of Charpentier's Bible scenes.
