CD, Schubert (composer)
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Zimerman takes us into a place of deep introspection, finding vast universes within. The recorded sound, by Rainer Maillard, is beautifully judged, combining gentleness with absolute clarity…This... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Instrument
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Perhaps the major discovery is the Violin Concerto by the exiled Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik...Quite simply, Kopatchinskaja lives and breathes every note, enabling her and the excellent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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There are moments when the music seems to call for a grandeur which this instrument can't produce, but with this recording Schubert's pianistic world is fundamentally transformed. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2019
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Record Review, 20th April 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Recording of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Schubert: Works for Piano Trio & Arpeggione Sonata
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)
In all, a deeply personal survey of this wonderful music and a beautiful way to remember a great pianist. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Chamber
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These two discs hardly need reviewing: they contain perfect performances of two of the greatest symphonies ever written, recorded with extra directness and detail...I’d put these performances... — More…
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Record Review, 9th July 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Piano Duos
RecommendedMozart, Schubert & Stravinsky
Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim (piano duo)
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompts several adjectives: brutal, revolutionary, relentless, terrifying...But elegant? Urbane, seductive, sensuous? This astonishing performance is all that and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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The virtue of the pianist Alexander Schmalcz’s orchestrations for baritone Matthias Goerne, his regular recital partner, is that he strives to hold faith with what he reads as Schubert ’s intentions,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th December 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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New. Lieder
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Quatuor Arod
Said’s love and affinity for the German language shine through in every phrase...the stand-outs for me were the two Gothic vignettes in the first half of the programme: a genuinely chilling... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th February 2025
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Chopin: Cello Sonata & Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The solemn Arpeggione is prefigured here by Isserlis’s arrangement of Chopin’s achingly beautiful ‘Nie ma czego trzeba’. Again in this Sonata, the duo offer graceful transparency, lithe refinement... — More…
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Record Review, 29th September 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Chamber
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Special offer. Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
RecommendedAndreas Staier (fortepiano after Conrad Graf)
The endlessly ear-opening consequences are riveting; the wide-ranging aplomb of Beethoven's Variations could have been conceived with Staier's musical curiosity and flair in mind...This isn't... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2017, First Choice
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