CD, Balakirev (composer)
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Those wary of an English choir's sensibilities in music almost from another planet should head stright to Tolstiakov's Blagoslovi and Rimsky-Korsakov's Our Father for blissful reassurance of... — More…
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As to Grimwood’s performances, they are compelling, fearless and nuanced, bearing all the hallmarks of having been in his fingers for a long time. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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The LSO plays, as always, splendidly for Valery Gergiev. The general excellence and detail of their performance is remarkable. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Special offer. Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Balakirev: Russia
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches — More…
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It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... — More…
