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Brahms: The Piano Concertos - Deluxe digital version
RecommendedNelson Freire (piano)
Gewandhaus Orchester, Riccardo Chailly
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Concerto
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Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Pablo Heras-Casado
Shostakovich’s two cello concertos present such different challenges, it’s a rare cellist who shines as brightly in both. Alisa Weilerstein is well-matched to the First Concerto: fierce, tight... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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One of the most intriguing things about Dame Mitsuko Uchida's Mozart is her capacity to conjure up a radiant 18th-century aesthetic without any of the accoutrements of the early music movement...There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Concerto Choice
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedAndrew Marriner (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Nicholas Daniel
Andrew Marriner is a flexible interpreter who brings out both the light and the shade in this work. The Eclogue, here played by a sensitive Piers Lane, is the wistfully pastoral middle movement... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna
RecommendedAlfred Brendel (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
This [the Brahms] is playing of tremendous incisiveness, highly energetic in both physical and intellectual terms. Brendel traces a powerful thread of development and logic through the set’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Re-issue/Archive of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Nicola Benedetti - Fantasie
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, Andrew Litton, Daniel Harding
The Lark Ascending is beautifully played, with pure, unforced tone, and in the unmeasured passages Benedetti imaginatively suggests the bird's unfettered, unpredictable flight. By contrast,... — More…
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Schumann: Piano Concerto
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Doráti
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Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building A Library, September 2023, Recommended Recording - Schumann
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Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
RecommendedKyung Wha Chung (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
It's enough to make you weep – Saint-Saëns wrote his first tune at the age of three, analysed Mozart's Don Giovanni from the full score when he was five, and at 10 claimed he could play all... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Orchestral
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The Essential Falla
RecommendedNati Mistral (soprano), John Constable (harpsichord), Eduardo Fernandez (guitar), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Martin Katz (piano), Colette Boky (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre...
[El amor brujo] enjoys exceptionally vivid sound, yet with plenty of light and shade, and the control of atmosphere in the quieter passages is masterful...de Larrocha's later, digital version... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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