Liszt
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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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Blumenfeld’s Étude pour la main gauche seule takes its influence from Godowsky’s compositions for left hand. Gugnin’s masterful fluidity in the scurrying passages is impressive; so is the judicious... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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In the end, this repertoire has rarely sounded so rich and so substantial—and even so, it has rarely sounded so exciting. The quality of the performances is supported by typically first-rate... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th August 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
These two like-minded musicians manage to bring to these much-recorded works not merely thrilling virtuosity and lyrical depth but a Mendelssohnian lightness of touch where needed...Litton,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, February 2014, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano), The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen
Choral singing is well-focused from the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir under Grete Pedersen, and the difficult acoustic balance is well judged; but the chief attention here is on Andsnes’s idiomatic,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th April 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Piano
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Chorale
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New. Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy
Lukas Geniušas (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrėnas
Until I heard Lukas Geniušas's recording of the Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasy I'd no idea what an enjoyable piece it could be. In this performance the themes sparkle with life, and Tchaikovsky's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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It's the combination of poignancy and ardour that sets his playing apart...a valuable addition to this great artist's discography. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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Abduraimov serves up one of the noblest and most intelligently shaped Dante Sonatas in the catalogue... You hear long lines and narrative paragraphs instead of pounded-out octaves in an Olympic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th May 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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