Browse: Nelson Freire (piano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Nelson Freire.
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Freire's sound has always been a thing of wonder: even at full volume and full tilt there's no hint of percussiveness in his tone...Highlights are many - the regret-filled duet of the middle... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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This is immensely distinguished Liszt-playing...Freire seems utterly at one with the music, not only in terms of its innate poetry but also its astonishing diversity of texture and touch...Freire... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Freire's kind of artistry raises [the repertoire] to an entirely different level. There's plenty of flair and soul, yet the playing is always crystalline and precise, perfectly pedalled, the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Nelson Freire, the legendary Brazilian pianist and longtime musical partner of Martha Argerich, turns to Debussy. In the accompanying notes he confesses to a special empathy for Debussy and you... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Hommage
Sergio Tiempo (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Nelson Freire (piano), Karin Lechner, Alan Weiss
‘Hommage’, in which he is joined by the six most significant musicians in his life, is a triumph on at least two levels: the performances themselves, and the kind of mixed-genre programme I wish... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: The Piano Concertos - Deluxe digital version RecommendedNelson Freire (piano)
Gewandhaus Orchester, Riccardo Chailly
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Concerto
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Nelson Freire: Radio Days Nelson Freire (piano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Reinhard Peters, Kurt Masur, Yuri Ahronovitch, Eleazar de Carvalho, David Zinman
What is most notable about this collection is the way Freire finds exactly the right idiom for each composer: a perfumed suggestion in the theatre for Tchaikovsky's First, elfin charm for the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Concerto Choice
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Freire's sheer love of music, and of this music, is positively incandescent...This is playing of exceptional virility, entirely untainted by machismo posturing or narcissistic display. Chopin... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Instrumental Choice
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For Freire the Nocturnes are tirelessly experimental, an opalescent world of shifting moods and colours...True, there are moments when a once legendary and impeccable technique stiffens [...],... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Piano
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In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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