US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
Download, Prokofiev (composer)
-
Special offer. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Throughout, Bavouzet displays a light touch and laudable levels of physical stamina, with a firm grasp of the very different personalities of each piece. Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic perform... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Disc of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Concerto
-
-
From first electrifying note-punch to last, with so much poetry and poignancy in between, this is a tour de force of pianism highlighting what seems more than ever like the great sonata sequence... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
-
Record Review, 8th February 2020, Record of the Week
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Recording of the Month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Instrumental
-
-
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.... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
-
Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
-
-
Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2024
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
-
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Concerto
-
-
Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2010
-
Building a Library, February 2010, Modern Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
-
-
Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Olli Mustonen (piano)
Isserlis and his long-term colleague Olli Mustonen make a compelling case for Kabalevsky’s Cello Sonata, finding such expressive drama that for once I was not distracted by the Sonata’s obvious... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
-
Record Review, 2nd February 2019, Disc of the Week
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2019
-
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Winner - Chamber
-
-
His account of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite affords further evidence that he is one of the world’s most accomplished poets of the keyboard, and I have never heard ‘Ondine’ so dainty and... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2024
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Instrumental Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Piano
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
-
-
This is certainly a golden age collection from Trifonov, and it’s admirable that these two discs are always more about the music than about him...If I were to choose a compendium of Russian... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2020
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
-
Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
-
-
Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas & Five Melodies
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin), Steven Osborne (piano)
From the austere opening bars...it's clear that this violin-and-piano duo is capable of the subtlest interplay. Steven Osborne is the lion, or the demon, that needs taming by Alina Ibragimova's... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2014
-
BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Chamber Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
-
Special offer. Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), with Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin), with Andrew Armstrong (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
I have not heard such a beautiful performance of the First Violin Concerto since Itzhak Perlman's 1982 EMI recording, and Ehnes enjoys the advantage of a more natural balance with the orchestra...Ehnes... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
-
Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto No. 2
-
