CD, Medtner (composer)
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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Medtner - First Piano Concertos
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling
His stunning virtuosity and the sensitive interaction with the conductor and orchestra really does the talking. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Scriabin & Medtner: Piano Concertos
RecommendedYevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
These are superb performances of two underestimated concertos...this is unquestionably an engaging account, Sudbin's glistening and expressive virtuosity matched by Andrew Litton and the Bergen... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Concerto
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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]... — More…
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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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Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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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... — More…
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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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Chloe Hanslip and Igor Tchetuev certainly have the measure of these voluble and passionate yet always disciplined works, turning in performances of the first rank. The bubbling rhythmic liveliness... — More…
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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... — More…
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Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are fully attuned to the more percussive aspects of Rachmaninov’s writing. In the outer sections of the f inal dance, they batter the listener with high voltage dynamically... — More…
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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... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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