Latest News: Classical
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Presto Editor's Choices,
Presto Editor's Choices - August 2019 31st August 2019Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion paint a vivid picture of Mozart on the cusp of operatic greatness, Christophe Rousset makes a hugely persuasive case for Gounod’s original version of Faust, and Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson beguile in a programme of music for cello and piano by the Mendelssohns.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts Korngold's Symphony in F sharp 30th August 2019John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London show their impressive credentials when it comes to the music of Korngold, with a thrillingly-performed account of the Symphony in F sharp.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 30th August 2019 30th August 2019New albums from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Masaaki Suzuki, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pygmalion, plus the 1859 version of Gounod’s Faust from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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Interview,
Anne-Sophie Mutter on John Williams 29th August 2019The violinist talks to James about her new album of music by John Williams, featuring a selection of movie themes specially reworked for violin and orchestra, conducted by the composer himself.
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Hi-Res Highlights,
Hi-Res Highlights - August 2019 28th August 2019Includes Holst and Elgar from Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic, Finzi from the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, and Beethoven and Rachmaninov from Ivo Pogorelich in his first recording in two decades.
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Interview,
Antoine Tamestit on Bach 27th August 2019The viola-player talks to David about his recording of the three gamba sonatas on Stradivari’s ‘Gustav Mahler’ viola from 1672 - one of only thirteen extant violas by the legendary Cremonese luthier.
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Recording of the Week,
Winterreise from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès 23rd August 2019Fifteen years on from his first audio recording of the work, the British tenor retraces Schubert’s 'Winter Journey' with a new companion in an unsettling, unsentimentalised interpretation that’s underpinned by years of scholarship on both sides.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 23rd August 2019 23rd August 2019New albums from Antoine Tamestit, Ivo Pogorelich, Johannes Moser and Annelien Van Wauwe, plus a celebration of Vladimir Horowitz’s Carnegie Hall comeback in 1965.
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Interview,
Long Yu on Gateways 22nd August 2019The conductor talks to David about his new album with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - marking the orchestra's signing to Deutsche Grammophon with a programme of Russian- and Chinese- related works, including two by Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.
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Coming Soon,
Quatuor Ébène's Beethoven odyssey and other forthcoming highlights 20th August 2019The French quartet embark on a world tour and series of live recordings of the complete string quartets to mark the composer’s upcoming 250th birthday, plus anniversary Berlioz from John Nelson, and a triptych of ‘sea pictures’ from Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
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Recording of the Week,
Stanford Ceremonial Works from Howard Shelley and the Ulster Orchestra 16th August 2019Pomp and circumstance aplenty in A Song of Agincourt and the 'Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue' Verdun, and ethereal magic from the ladies of Codetta chamber choir in Fairy Day.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019 16th August 2019Debut solo albums from Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov and award-winning South African tenor Levy Sekgapane, and music by Korngold for stage and screen.
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Gramophone Choices,
Gramophone Editor's Choices - September 2019 14th August 2019Chris introduces this month’s selection, headed by ‘a piano recording that really plucks at the heart-strings’ - Denis Kozhukhin's selections of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte on Pentatone.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - August 2019 13th August 2019Semyon Bychkov’s Tchaikovsky Project reaches completion, plus a mammoth celebration of George Szell in Cleveland, and previously unreleased recordings documenting Vladimir Horowitz’s 1965 comeback at Carnegie Hall.
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Interview,
Ivan Ilić on Stegmann's transcriptions of Haydn 12th August 2019The Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about discovering and recording solo piano arrangements of Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44 by Carl David Stegmann, a conductor, composer and tenor who sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni.
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Recording of the Week,
Cecilia Bartoli sparkles as Rossini's 'Italiana in Algeri' 9th August 2019The Roman mezzo makes her role-debut as the feisty feminist Isabella in Rossini's culture-clash comedy, filmed last year at the Salzburg Festival and directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier.
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New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019 9th August 2019World 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 Choices,
BBC Music Magazine - September 2019 Choices 7th August 2019Chris 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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Coming Soon,
A Soirée with Magdalena Kožená & Simon Rattle and other forthcoming highlights 6th August 2019Ravel, 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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Interview,
David Owen Norris on Mozart in the Nineteenth-Century Drawing-Room 5th August 2019The pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of Hummel, Cramer and Clementi’s arrangements of Mozart symphonies and overtures for ‘Jupiter Ensemble’ (flute, violin, cello and piano), out now on Hyperion.