Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 18th May 2018
18th May 2018
Schubert from Isabelle Faust and friends, Wolf-Ferrari from Vasily Petrenko, and Vaughan Williams from The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
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BBC Music Magazine - June 2018 Choices
16th May 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Rachel Podger, the Gabrieli Consort, Fretwork, and Stéphane Degout and Pygmalion.
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2018
15th May 2018
A centenary celebration of Birgit Nilsson, two sixtieth-birthday collections from Harmonia Mundi, a budget box of Massenet operas, and an anthology of early performances of Debussy.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th May 2018
11th May 2018
New recordings from artists including Ádám Fischer, Sophie Pacini, Boris Giltburg, and Fabio Bonizzoni.
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Francesco Piemontesi's Liszt and other forthcoming highlights
9th May 2018
The Swiss pianist embarks on the first of Liszt's 'Years of Pilgrimage', Thomas Quasthoff teams up with a big band for his second jazz album, and Philippe Jaroussky goes to hell and back.
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Presto CD - 20 new DG Archiv titles
7th May 2018
Recordings by Trevor Pinnock, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Kenneth Gilbert and Robert Levin feature in the latest batch of Presto CDs.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th May 2018
4th May 2018
Haydn from Trio Wanderer, Bach and Telemann from Christoph Prégardien (who's dipping a toe into baritone waters), and a previously-unreleased Schubert compilation from Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2018
2nd May 2018
One of two recent recordings of the Bartók violin concertos takes pride of place this month, with mentions in despatches for artists including Rachel Podger, Paul Lewis, Julien Brocal, and the Elias Quartet.
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The Presto Chart - April 2018
30th Apr 2018
Introducing our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Rachel Podger's refreshing chamber accounts of The Four Seasons with her hand-picked ensemble Brecon Baroque out in front...
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Presto Editor's Choices - April 2018
30th Apr 2018
Sandrine Piau and Nicholas Phan shine in evocative recitals featuring Verlaine settings, a recent Gounod discovery showcases one of the most promising young tenors around, and the Silesian Quartet continue to fly the flag for Grażyna Bacewicz.
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New Release Round-up - 27th April 2018
27th Apr 2018
Mahler from Osmo Vänskä and his Minnesota orchestra, the world premiere recording of a recently-rediscovered sacred work by Gounod, and late Schubert from Marc-André Hamelin.
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Presto CD - 85 new Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Sony and RCA titles
25th Apr 2018
Highlights from the latest batch of Presto CDs include recordings by Andreas Staier, René Jacobs, Bruno Walter and Emanuel Ax.
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2018 Choices
24th Apr 2018
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Murray Perahia, Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, and Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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New Release Round-up - 20th April 2018
20th Apr 2018
Shostakovich from Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet, song recitals from Sandrine Piau and Nicholas Phan, Ravel and Gershwin from Denis Kozhukhin, and the complete symphonies of Arvo Pärt.
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2018
16th Apr 2018
Collections from artists including Leonard Bernstein, Monique Haas, Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux, plus a comprehensive new WF Bach anthology on Brilliant Classics.
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New Release Round-up - 13th April 2018
13th Apr 2018
Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, Schubert from Roderick Williams, Bartók from Christian Tetzlaff and Hannu Lintu, and vintage Beethoven from the Budapest Quartet.
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International Opera Awards 2018 - The Winners!
10th Apr 2018
The results of last night's ceremony at the London Coliseum.
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New Release Round-up - 6th April 2018
6th Apr 2018
Walton from Edward Gardner and James Ehnes, Brahms from Benjamin Appl and Graham Johnson, Crusell from Michael Collins, and two newly-curated collections of Teresa Berganza in Mozart, Rossini and more.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2018 - The Winners!
5th Apr 2018
A live update from the ceremony in Kings Place - all is revealed…
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Jonas Kaufmann's Otello and other forthcoming highlights
3rd Apr 2018
The German tenor's first portrayal of Verdi's 'Lion of Venice', plus new releases from Ádám Fischer, Osmo Vänskä, Stephen Hough and Tenebrae.
