Instrumental, Piano Solos, Piano Sonatas, Liszt (composer)
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Classical Album of the Year
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Krystian Zimerman plays Liszt
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian. — More…
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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Batsashvili’s sound is always pleasant, her phrasing generally immaculate and her musical values and structural grasp secure. That said, her approach to the two 18th-century sonatas seems oddly... — More…
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Grosvenor conjures a brand of full and rounded keyboard sonority different from that of many of his contemporaries, and recalls the giants of an earlier generation (Busoni, for instance, or... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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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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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Instrumental
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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