Instrumental , Piano Solos, Saint-Saëns (composer)

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 & pieces for solo piano

Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine

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Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) & Heini Kärkkäinen (piano) Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow & Kees Bakels

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Disc of the month
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Piers Lane (piano)

Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording

Mandoline. Dans Les Salons Fin-de-Siècle

Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), François Dumont (piano), Sandrine Piau

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Stephen Hough (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Disc of the Month

Special offer. L'heure exquise: Alice Coote | A French Songbook

Alice Coote (mezzo) & Graham Johnson (piano)

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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal

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Alban Gerhardt (cello) & Cecile Licad (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Chamber Choice
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Di Tanti Palpiti

Lea Birringer and Esther Birringer

International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music

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Yuja Wang: Fantasia

Yuja Wang (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Instrumental Choice
Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice

Special offer. Saint-Saëns & Ysaÿe: Rare transcriptions for violin & piano

Philippe Graffin (violin) & Pascal Devoyon (piano), with Catherine Beynon (harp)

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Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich

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Concertgebouw Lollipops

Concertgebouworkest, Paul van Kempen, Eduard van Beinum, Bernard Haitink, Igor Markevitch, Willem van Otterloo, Eugen Jochum, Antal Doráti

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Dance!

Daniel Hope (violin), Zürcher Kammerorchester (chamber orchestra), Benjamin Günst (violin), Jenö Lisztes (cimbalom), Omar Massa (bandoneon), Stephane Logerot (bass), Joscho Stephan (guitar), Jacques Ammon (piano), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)

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Sandrine Piau (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor), Gilles de Talhouët (flute) & Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Chamber Choice

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Lang Lang - Saint-Saëns

Lang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons

Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year

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Brodsky Quartet (string quartet), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Julian Jacobsen

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Benjamin Grosvenor plays Rhapsody in Blue

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

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Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne

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Shura Cherkassky (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

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Michael Rabin Bell Telephone Hour 1: 1950-54

Michael Rabin (violin)

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Intuition (Jewelcase Version)

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano)

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Artists include Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Kent Nagano and Carlo Maria Giulini

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Antonio Ballista (piano)

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Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich & Friends

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La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton, Benjamin Perrot

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Paris 1900 - The Art of the Oboe

Alexandre Gattet (oboe), Laurent Wagscha (piano)

International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music

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The Orchestral Organ

Jan Kraybill (organ)

Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo

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Guiomar Novaes: The complete published 78-rpm recordings

Guiomar Novaes (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month

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Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

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RIAS Recordings Vol. 1 - Liszt, Chopin and more

Jorge Bolet (piano)

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Voyages - Organ transcriptions

Olivier Latry (organ)

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017

Creating Timeless Classics

Martin Helmchen (piano), Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Julia Fischer (violin), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Jonathan Gilad (piano), Mari Kodama (piano), Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Andrew Marriner (clarinet), Nareh Arghamanyan (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Alois Posch (double bass), Russian National Orchestra, Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Murphy, Lawrence Foster, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Marek Janowski

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Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky (cello), Sophia Whitson (harp)

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Magda Tagliaferro (piano)

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Tiffany Poon

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French Cello Sonatas II

Julian Steckel (cello) & Paul Rivinius (piano)

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Massimo Data (bassoon), Piero Barbareschi (piano), Bram van Sambeek (soloist), Günter Klier (soloist), Fabien Thouand (soloist), Valentino Zucchiatti (soloist), Carmen Mainer Martín (bassoon), Enrique Escartín Ara (piano), Violeta Mur (cello), Trio Andrea Palladio (soloist), Maria-Paula Majoor, Rick Stotijn, Joost Bosdijk, Ellen Corver, Izhar Elias, Calogero Palermo (clarinet), Andrea Zucco (bassoon), Akanè Makita (soloist), Francesco Bossone (soloist), Luca Franceschelli (bassoon), Filippo Farinelli (piano), Sinfonia Rotterdam, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra da Camera 'Ferrucio Busoni', Soloists of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Conrad van Alphen, Siegfried Kurz, Massimo Belli

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Estrellita

Hee-Young Lim (cello), Chuhui Lang (piano)

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Mischa Elman: the Complete Victor Recordings (1926-32)

Mischa Elman (violin), Unnamed Orchestra, The Victor Symphony Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon, Nathaniel Shilkret

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Ruth Slenczynska - Complete American Decca Recordings

Ruth Slenczynska (piano), Wiener Symphoniker, Symphony of the Air, Carl Melles, Henry Swoboda

Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month

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The Legacy of Charles Munch

Orchestre de la Société Philharmonique de Paris, L’Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Charles Munch

Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Réédition

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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!

Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Nelly Kokinos (piano), Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei, Steven Isserlis (cello), Xavier De Maistre (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Johns Williams (guitar), James Galway (flute), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Samuel Lipman & Leo Litwin (pianos), Martin Hoherman (xylophone), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Sylvia Gestzy (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (soprano), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Alfred Scholz (piano), Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet), Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Ben Heppner (tenor), Leontyne Price (soprano), Will Sanders (horn), Eugene Istomin (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano), Guarneri Quartet I Soloisti di Zaghreb, London Musici, Boston Pops Orchestra, Charles Munch, Arthur Fiedler, Sir Thomas Beecham, John McCarthy, Eduardo Mata, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Dmitri Kitayenko, Georg Solti

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Songs from the Arc of Life

Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano)

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Doyen: Music From France

Jean Doyen (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month

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Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello, piano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano, cello), Raphaël Imbert (soloist), Stéphanie-Marie Degand, La Diane française

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Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 18

Alexander Lonquich & Marc-Andre Hamelin (pianos) Steven Sloane

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When Do We Dance?

Lise de la Salle (soloist)

BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Recording of the Month

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The Great Danish Pianist Victor Schiøler, Vol. 6

Victor Schiøler, Ib Eriksson (soloist), Peter Westenholz (soloist), Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Albert Wolff, Erik Tuxen, Carl von Garaguly

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Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)

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Carnival (Standard version)

The Kanneh--Masons, with Michael Morpurgo and Olivia Colman

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Maxim Vengerov (violin) & Ian Brown (piano)

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Emil Gilels (piano) Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens