CD, Mussorgsky (composer)
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Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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This is more than a flawless recital played with technical bravura and a born soloist’s confidence. Abduraimov is a major pianist, worth talking about in the same breath as the international... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2021
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Record Review, 23rd January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Not yet 20, the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister makes an outstanding Supraphon debut with this recital of Russian music. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Newcomer
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Orchestral Choice
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You just know this is going to be good, one of those where you can just sit back and listen with unalloyed pleasure to music, artist and instrument...Certainly the best solo piano album to come... —
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Mika Kares (Pimen), Sergei Skorokhodov (Grigory), Okka von der Damerau (The Innkeeper), Alexey Tikhomirov (Varlaam), Hanna Husáhr (Xenia), Johanna Rudström (Feodor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano
...this performance is excellent, beautifully sung and cogently paced. The cast is mostly Russophone, which ensures mostly accurate pronunciation...this version is in any case indispensable... —
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Record Review, 28th September 2019, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Special offer. Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings
Decca Masters and Radio Tapes 1970-2002
Radu Lupu (piano), Tel Aviv String Quartet, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kazimierz Kord
The very qualities that limited his discography - doubt, self-criticism, an acute fear of exposure - are precisely those that give these recordings their emotional charge. Heard now, they do... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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The surprises come thick and fast…Her bright soprano can be a bit squeezed in the more conventional love-lyrics, but revels in the unorthodox, and Glynn ranges the colour-palette too. The presentation... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Special offer. Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Serebrier's own imposing, heavyweight style yields different results to the volatile Knussen… but it's always absorbing. Something of the Stokowski sound is filtered through the refined texturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Ravel: La Valse & Mussorgsky: Tableaux d'une Exposition
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Roth certainly foregrounds each work’s grotesque qualities. The slithering string portamento in ‘Gnomus’ is striking…Roth has taken some pains to perform a version of Pictures faithful to Ravel’s... —
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Record Review, 4th April 2020, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th April 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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