Download, Medtner (composer)
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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. 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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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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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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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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Special offer. Lines Written During a Sleepless Night
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
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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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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the sheer range of Petersen's soprano and her interests enables her to compel and convince as much in 1821 Schubert as in German composer Manfred Trojahn's settings from 2008...Most fascinating... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
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The humorous Dithyramb No. 2 is surely a masterpiece, and Milne happily strides its Olympian terrain with unforced richness of tone. Medtner's expressive range grows on the second disc...The... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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