Grammy Awards
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Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
This is one of the best new Tchaikovsky Fifths I’ve heard for ages...even if this Fifth came with no coupling, I’d still recommend it. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they... —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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With the exception of the ‘Black Pearl’ variation, which lasts almost ten minutes, this is one of the fastest sets I have ever heard, yet it’s also one of the most enjoyable. Ólafsson draws... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th October 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Bestseller of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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The Philadelphia polish helps to highlight one of Price’s most endearing qualities: those kaleidoscopic orchestrations, with piquant detailing from all corners, including celesta and slide whistle...... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Her Diabelli Variations are a triumph of wit and character…Yet it's in her handling of the profundity lying beneath that Uchida makes her *Diabellis* stand out. Underneath the constantly changing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Piano
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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With the exception of the ‘Black Pearl’ variation, which lasts almost ten minutes, this is one of the fastest sets I have ever heard, yet it’s also one of the most enjoyable. Ólafsson draws... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th October 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Bestseller of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta
RecommendedLucy Crowe (Vixen), Gerald Finley (Forester), Sophia Burgos (Fox), Jan Martiník (Badger/Parson), Peter Hoare (Mosquito/Rooster/Schoolmaster), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Harašta)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
If this Vixen is good, the Sinfonietta is outstanding – arguably the best on disc, though you need to experience the work in a concert hall with the nine trumpets blazing. They’re supremely... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Bates: Resurrexit
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
It's undoubtedly one of the best recordings of the symphony in the digital era...It’s a glowing testament to the high levels of synergy and mutual comprehension that Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Winner - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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