Scriabin
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It's with the Fourth Sonata of Scriabin that the full breadth of Liu's musical and pianistic gifts unfurls. He takes risks, stealing the breath with perfectly calculated dynamics, and retaining... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th August 2026
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This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Insturmental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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New. Ann Schein: the Complete Kapp Recordings 1958-1960
Ann Schein, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Eugene Goossens
They are something of a holy grail among devoted pianophiles...Were there still a category for historic recordings, this would be a shoo-in for a Gramophone Award. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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A supremely intelligent, deeply feeling artist of the first order. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy
Russian National Orchestra & Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Pletnev
there is a good deal which is captivating in Mikhail Pletnev's excellent performance: in the thistledown Scherzo, the Russian National Orchestra demonstates polished and tight ensemble playing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 & Piano Concerto
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko is the ideal interpreter for this ripe overheated music…The Oslo Philharmonic responds with brilliantly incisive ensemble…Gerstein makes the most of Scriabin’s poetic writing with some... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2017
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[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Put the score to one side and there is so much to think about in these performances. Love them or loathe them, you will surely never have heard anything quite like them. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Innovative Listening Experience (for engineer Rainer Maillard)
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Special offer. Barber, Sibelius & Scriabin: One Movement Symphonies
Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern
Founded in 1982, this orchestra offers here a classy standard of playing, plus the conductor-and-orchestra chemistry that’s needed to generate musical results as memorable as these, and in three... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Orchestral Choice
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This is certainly a golden age collection from Trifonov, and it’s admirable that these two discs are always more about the music than about him...If I were to choose a compendium of Russian... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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