Krystian Zimerman
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Zimerman takes us into a place of deep introspection, finding vast universes within. The recorded sound, by Rainer Maillard, is beautifully judged, combining gentleness with absolute clarity…This... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Instrument
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Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Ravel - Piano Concertos
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Zimerman's pianism is self-recommending.
His trills in the first movement of the G major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystalclear, never hectic, always stylish. For... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th-Century Concerto
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, May 2024, Recommended Recording (Ravel)
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Krystian Zimerman plays Liszt
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian. — More…
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Piano
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Two discs, retailing at a high mid-price and playing for a total of 84 minutes? The playing and the recording had better be in the luxury class. Fortunately they are.
Zimerman is the very model... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Instrumental
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The Complete Chopin Edition
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Claudio Arrau (piano), Anatol Ugorski (piano), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Rafal Blechacz (piano), Yundi Li (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Kurt Bauer, Heidi Bung (pianos),...
The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
17 CDs
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Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
This is playing in the grand manner. From the start of First Concerto you're aware of a consciously leonine approach. Zimerman even deliberately takes risks in a few technically perilous places... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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[the performances] are touched by distinction throughout and have spontaneity as well as tremendous concentration, bringing a remarkable combination of poetry and romantic feeling. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
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The Liszt Collection
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Shura Cherkassky, John Ogdon & Brenda Lucas (piano), Vinson Cole (tenor), Roberto Szidon (piano), Lazar Berman (piano), Alice Sara Ott (piano), Jorge Bolet (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Nikita Magaloff (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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