Classical Recommendations
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The Presto Chart - February 2019
2nd Mar 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fourth instalment of Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich Under Stalin series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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New Release Round-Up - 1st March 2019
1st Mar 2019
New recordings from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Sir Andrew Davies and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and British vocal ensemble EXAUDI, plus Bernard Haitink’s Mahler and Bruckner cycles with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on Blu-ray Audio.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - March 2019
26th Feb 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed up some 'simply wonderful Bach-playing' from Polish pianist Ewa Pobłocka on the Frederick Chopin Institute's own label.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd February 2019
22nd Feb 2019
New recordings from Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Vadym Kholodenko, and Lucie Horsch, plus the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel.
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56 new Sony titles added
21st Feb 2019
Highlights include recordings by Leonard Bernstein, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Williams, and music composed by Glenn Gould.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th February 2019
15th Feb 2019
New recordings from Edgar Moreau, Jeremy Denk and François-Xavier Roth, plus a memorial to Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and a 1955 recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden from Belgrade.
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Victoires de la Musique Classique 2019
14th Feb 2019
Chris presents the winners and nominees from last night's ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Paris, including Lang Lang and French baritone Stéphane Degout.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2019
14th Feb 2019
A Berlioz anniversary tribute from Warner Classics, Wilhelm Fürtwangler’s wartime radio broadcasts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, a ninetieth-birthday celebration of Bernard Haitink, and anthologies of Idil Biret, Van Cliburn, and Leonard Pennario.
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Grammy Winners 2019
11th Feb 2019
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 - 8th February 2019
8th Feb 2019
New recordings from Paul Lewis, Olga Peretyatko, Anna Lucia Richter and The King’s Singers, plus a collection of Furtwängler radio broadcasts from the archives of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Berlioz from Rattle and Davis and other forthcoming highlights
7th Feb 2019
La damnation de Faust from London and L’enfance du Christ from Melbourne, plus Bruckner from Robin Ticciati, Bach from Isabelle Faust, and the final instalment of Iván Fischer’s mighty Mahler series from Budapest.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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BBC Music Magazine - February 2019 Choices
6th Feb 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Vox Luminis, Jennifer Pike, Charles Owen, and Antonio Pappano and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
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The Presto Chart - January 2019
2nd Feb 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with period-instrument Berlioz from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - January 2019
1st Feb 2019
Two startlingly original symphonies by the African-American composer Florence Price, Berlioz laid bare by four hands on a Pleyel, and hot-to-the-touch Schumann from Gautier Capuçon and Martha Argerich.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st February 2019
1st Feb 2019
New recordings from Edward Gardner, Mariss Jansons and Jan Lisiecki, plus an Alfred Cellier rarity from Richard Bonynge and a landmark Dmitri Hvorostovsky performance from the Moscow archives.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - February 2019
28th Jan 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the first volume of Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber’s Schumann series on Sony taking pride of place.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th January 2019
25th Jan 2019
New recordings from the Grigoryan brothers, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Jayson Gillham and the RIAS Kammerchor, plus a boxed set of Daniel Barenboim reissues.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2019
22nd Jan 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s live recording of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (starring Furio Zanasi as the returning hero and Lucile Richardot as his long-suffering wife) in the lead as Recording of the Month.
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo) Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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New Release Round-Up - 18th January 2019
18th Jan 2019
New recordings from Gautier Capuçon, Christophe Rousset, Concentus Musicus Wien, and Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris.
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