Staatskapelle Berlin
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Elgar & Carter: Cello Concertos RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Weilerstein avoids nostalgia [in the Elgar] and produces instead an account that is full of passion, grief and nobility of feeling...Her interpretation [of the Carter], at once remarkably expressive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year & Concerto Award Winner
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Debussy: Fantaisie, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, La Mer
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Kian Soltani (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Staatskapelle Berlin
Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani are the concertmaster and principal cellist of the Barenboim-founded West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, so the stellar quality of their playing is no more a surprise... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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He’s an exceptionally free, agile and fluent player, and youthful impetuosity powers the first and third movements, only occasionally marred by a rather hectic vibrato. There’s a sense of real... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Concerto Choice
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Great Pianists - Walter Gieseking
RecommendedConcerto Recordings Vol. 1
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Preussischen Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Hans Rosbaud, Henry Wood
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Building a Library, June 2010, Historic Choice
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Daniel Barenboim: The Chopin Concertos
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Andris Nelsons
Always authoritative, Barenboim is by turns graceful and gutsy, an especially good combination in the E minor Concerto - and his orchestra, the Berlin Staatskapelle (here under Andris Nelsons),... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, September 2016, Also Recommended
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Wilhelm Backhaus: The Complete 1940s Studio Recordings
Mozart, J S Bach, Beethoven & Schubert
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Fluent, unfussy and purposeful, Backhaus illuminates the music of some of his favourite composers. His playful understanding of the outer movements of Bach’s Italian Concerto and his gentle... — More…
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Beethoven For All: The Piano Concertos Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor)
Staatskapelle Berlin
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Fritz Kreisler: The Charming Maverick
RecommendedFritz Kreisler (violin), Thomas Petre (violins), William Primrose (viola), Laurie Kennedy (cello), with Franz Rupp (piano), with Michael Raucheisen (piano), with Arpád Sándor (piano)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Landon Ronald,...
Listening to these recordings today you can hear his remarkable sound – characterised by an almost constant, but varied vibrato. He tended to avoid using his fourth finger in order to maintain... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos
Pre-War and Wartime 78-rpm recordings 1925–1942
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, German Opera House Orchestra, Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Van Kempen, Peter Raabe
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