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CD, Medtner (composer)
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The pieces Malofeev has chosen here are brilliantly subtle and irresistibly seductive - and gorgeously played...This is his first album for Sony, and they want us to know that this 24-year-old... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Recording of the Month
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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New. The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Medtner & Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Expectations are inevitably high as Marc-Andre Hamelin, who marries phenomenal technique with sensitive musicianship, joins Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonia Orchestra, now truly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Malcolm Binns - A 90th Birthday Tribute
Malcolm Binns (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Norman Del Mar
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Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Sudbin offers an attractive selection of solo works…Medtner’s own Prologue to Op. 1, a tintinnabulation of Russian-style bells accompaying Orthodox-style chant, is a charming opener…[he is]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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his musical potential certainly comes through, albeit with uneven results. —
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Superlatively played and presented. Such writing positively demands a transcendental technique and a burning poetic commitment, a magical amalgam achieved with delicacy, drama and finesse by... —
