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BBC Music Magazine Awards, Liszt (composer)
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
RecommendedAndreas Staier (fortepiano after Conrad Graf)
The endlessly ear-opening consequences are riveting; the wide-ranging aplomb of Beethoven's Variations could have been conceived with Staier's musical curiosity and flair in mind...This isn't... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2017, First Choice
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
RecommendedAngelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to imtimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her. I particularly like the way... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Award Winner
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One of the most individual things about this stunning debut by Benjamin Grosvenor is his pervasive sense of balance and his unerring blend of Classical restraint and Romantic ardour...He is... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th July 2011
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Instrumental
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Her playing is classy, navigating a fine path between virtuosity, poetry, structural awareness and idiomatic style. There's a velvety lyricism to her Liszt and she's fearsome in the Schubert. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Newcomer of the Year
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Special offer. Goethe-Lieder: Das ewig Weibliche
Marlis Petersen (soprano) & Jendrik Springer (piano)
the sheer range of Petersen's soprano and her interests enables her to compel and convince as much in 1821 Schubert as in German composer Manfred Trojahn's settings from 2008...Most fascinating... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Liszt Abroad
Rebecca Evans (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Matthew Rose (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
The 20 songs recorded here cover a vast range of language and expression… Burnside is a faultless guide along this journey, exhibiting power when required but never forcing either tone or pace;... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Newcomer of the Year
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