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Hi Res Download, Balakirev (composer)
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The LSO plays, as always, splendidly for Valery Gergiev. The general excellence and detail of their performance is remarkable. —
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As to Grimwood’s performances, they are compelling, fearless and nuanced, bearing all the hallmarks of having been in his fingers for a long time. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches —
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Gergiev’s passion for Rachmaninov is evident in his recordings of the three symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra...The early Symphony No 1 (1895), so dismally received at its first... —
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Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor - Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 in C Major (Remastered 2025)
Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Balakirev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concerto & other orchestral works
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky
Altogether the Chandos set offers a good introduction to Balakirev's orchestral work… —
