Latest News: Classical
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Recording of the Week,
Ysaÿe's six sonatas for solo violin from Hilary Hahn 21st July 2023Hilary Hahn finds magic, morbidity, merrymaking and much more in a brilliant new account of Ysaÿe's six affectionate character-sketches for his violinist friends.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2023 21st July 2023Mendelssohn from Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Bach from Bojan Čičić, a Spanish recital from violinist Francisco Fullana, and fourteen-year-old treble Malakai Bayoh's debut on Decca.
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Interview,
Reginald Mobley on Because 20th July 2023Ahead of his Proms performance of the programme at The Sage this weekend, the American countertenor discusses his album of spirituals and songs by Black composers with jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon, released on Alpha Classics in May.
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Interview,
Robyn Allegra Parton on Burnished Gold 19th July 2023The British soprano discusses her Klimt-inspired debut solo album on Orchid Classics, exploring music by composers associated with the Viennese Secession movement and featuring songs by Joseph Marx, Alma Mahler, the teenage Erich Korngold and Johanna Müller-Hermann.
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BBC Music Magazine Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - July 2023 Choices 18th July 2023Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'truly exceptional' account of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 from Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on BIS.
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Interview,
Owain Park on performing and dramatising Byrd's sacred music 17th July 2023The Artistic Director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new anniversary-year album of Byrd, and their exciting new staged performance based around the music of Catholicism-in-hiding during England's Tudor era.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts orchestral works by American composer Kenneth Fuchs 14th July 2023World premiere recordings of a quartet of orchestral works by Grammy Award-winning composer Kenneth Fuchs from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 14th July 2023 14th July 2023Ysaÿe from Hilary Hahn, an all-horn programme from the horn section of the Munich Opera, archive recordings of Dvořák's Mass and Te Deum from the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Václav Smetácek, and Brian Smith Walter's LGBT song-recital with Adam Johnson.
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Interview,
Iestyn Morris on Romances 13th July 2023The countertenor talks about his new recording of Russian Romances with pianist Nigel Foster on Quartz Records.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2023 12th July 2023Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'superb', 'charismatic' account of Handel's Serse with Emily D’Angelo in the title role...
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Interview,
Kirill Troussov on his EP of violin duos with Julia Fischer 11th July 2023The violinist discusses his recently-released EP, pairing Shostakovich's Five Pieces for Two Violins & Piano with Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins.
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Coming Soon,
Bach's Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights 10th July 2023A second Bach recording from the Icelandic pianist is among the stand-out releases for the autumn, alongside Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang in Los Angeles, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, and a cinematic album from Jonas Kaufmann...
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 38: Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve' 8th July 2023The pianist discusses his new album, weaving together a nocturnal theme, a deeply personal poetic connection, and the French piano repertoire of the 'belle époque'.
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Recording of the Week,
Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho 7th July 2023The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 7th July 2023 7th July 2023Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Joachim Mendelson & Grażyna Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, and Mendelssohn & more from young Australian violinist Christian Li.
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Awards,
Opus Klassik Awards 2023 6th July 2023Revealed in advance of October's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Asmik Grigorian, Víkingur Ólafsson, Sean Shibe and Abel Selaocoe.
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Interview,
Karim Sulayman on Broken Branches 5th July 2023Tenor Karim Sulayman talks about his recently-released eclectic album of works for guitar and voice with Sean Shibe.
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Favourites,
William Byrd, 400 years on 4th July 2023A selection of some of the best recent recordings of music by the giant of English early music, for the 400th anniversary of his death.
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Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - June 2023 3rd July 2023Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with British conductor Alpesh Chauhan's debut recording of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasias on Chandos in first place...
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Recording of the Week,
Selections from Bernard Herrmann's only opera, Wuthering Heights 30th June 2023Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film scores, based on the novel by Emily Brontë.