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Revolution: Flute Concertos
RecommendedEmmanuel Pahud (flute)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[the Prokofiev] presents formidable technical challenges, all of which are surmounted almost with nonchalance, the pianist's focus resolutely serving the score, not the mechanisms involved in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
they bring to it all the colour and drama you’d expect. The Warner recording is rich and detailed. The Santa Cecilia brass sound is suitably fierce in the imposing opening chords, representing... — More…
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Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling
Leonskaja’s live performances of the Schumann and Grieg piano concertos have been cause for wonder...There are other ways of performing these works, but these interpretations are utterly consistent... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Concerto Choice
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R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Authoritative from the first bar’s fleshy bass, Antonio Pappano’s bel canto approach to Strauss’s mock-epic hero cultivates beauty of sound even in usually bombastically noisy stretches such... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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The customary ease, gentleness and fluidity of Emmanuel Pahud’s flute and model taste and clarity of Éric Le Sage’s piano-playing are evident right through the album’s first sonata, K378, but... — More…
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The playing sparkles. None of these pieces will challenge the intellect, but each in turn tickles the senses. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended - K452
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Antonio Pappano
As Andsnes observed in interview, the conductor is the one who really drives the Second Concerto, and after spacious opening chords it's over to Pappano's Berliners for opulent sweep. Andsnes... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Concerto
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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Pene Pati
RecommendedPene Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emmanuel Villaume
A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati’s debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2022
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Opera, May 2022, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Young Artist of the Year
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