Paging Robert Flute - The new Dream of Gerontius from Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli is now available for pre-order!
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Am confused as to why Signum Classics didn't simply call this album 'Noel's House Party', especially as it would have meant they could have incorporated a beloved TV character on the cover like below... Mary Bevan 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 joseph middleton Kim Bourlet

...and we love to listen! The latest from Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺 and joseph middleton now available to pre-order from Presto!
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Honoured that my birthday today is deemed so important as to justify the assemblage of all these fine people but really BBC Proms and David Pickard you needn't have gone to *that* much trouble!

Her highly enjoyable new book on Rachmaninoff is called 'Goodbye Russia', but to discuss it on the latest Presto Music podcast I got to say 'Hello' to Fiona Maddocks! prestomusic.com/classical/arti…

Dancing on the edge of a sublime abyss - only to finally embrace the great 'undiscovered country' - no better work to hear on the anniversary of Mahler's death than the 10th - courtesy of the CBSO and Robert Treviño

Released last Thursday, Dr Leah Broad's new book 'Quartet' has been quite rightly lauded -you can listen to my chat with Leah about the book for a Presto Music Podcast here!
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Great to hear Natasha Loges on BBC Radio 3 this morning with Andrew McGregor - wonderful selection of new discs (the Ina Boyle is a real discovery!) combined with tremendous erudition and insight

The perfect Christmas confection for Anna Lapwood courtesy of Brysons Bakery of Keswick!

Thanks very much for a fascinating chat Marina!

My colleague Presto Music James Longstaffe had a fascinating chat with John Wilson about his terrific new Film Music disc with the SinfoniaOfLondon on Chandos Records - including shedding light on the mysterious (to me at least) Novachord...
Listen here
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While waiting to get into the Royal Albert Hall it was great to chat to Rainer Hersch about the wheres and whys of Promming for his Proms in the Pub podcast!
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3 eminent music biographers, Philip Clark, Oliver Craske & Oliver Soden joined me on the latest Presto Music podcast for a fascinating discussion on the art of music biography - listen here prestomusic.com/classical/arti…

I'll hopefully be speaking to Philip Clark, Oliver Craske & Oliver Soden about the art of music biography soon for a Presto Music podcast - so I better 'take five' out of my day to finish this excellent example...

Spotted in the liner notes for a Shostakovich CD - no musicologists I know... 🤷‍♂️ Marina FrolovaWalker Dan Elphick

#GiveBackFriday - for the next four days (26th-29th November) we will be donating 5% of all the revenue we receive to three charities whose aims are closely aligned with our own: Chineke! Foundation, @nycgb and Gabrieli.

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