Browse: Gábor Takács-Nagy (conductor)

This is altogether a really fine performance…Bavouzet uses the ubiquitous Beethoven cadenzas for K466, while for its C major companion-piece K467 he opts for the examples by Friedrich Gulda,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy deliver blisteringly energetic articulation…Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy relish Mozart’s wicked touches of humour…[in the Quintet] once again, Bavouzet,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Turning to K595, there’s a tremendous sense of reactivity between Bavouzet and his fellow musicians. Examples abound in the opening movement, where he finds a greater sense of playfulness than... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…

Bavouzet's new readings on a bright-toned Yamaha concert grand are unfailingly crisp and vivacious, if with idiosyncrasies...his rapport with Gabor Takacs-Nagy and the sensitised strings of the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet uses a modern concert grand, with the orchestra avoiding excessive vibrato but otherwise playing in today’s mellow-toned instrumental style. The superlative collective result shows that... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression...What... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet reveals himself a Mozartian every bit as mercurially imaginative and technically audacious as he already has been In the piano music of Haydn…The collaborative vigour of the concerto... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet’s performances are given with ‘beaded bubbles winking at the brim’ – Keats’ wonderfully apt metaphor – and he is ideally partnered by Takács-Nagy. The concertos are complemented by five... — International Piano, May 2020 More…