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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Schiff conducts from the keyboard...securing crisp ensemble and cogent longer-term grasp of structure in his forward-moving tempos...The wiry tone of his restored circa-1859 Blüthner grand may... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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As with his previous period-instrument ventures, Schiff opens up a new world and thoroughly adjusts his temperament, his ‘pianism’ and his artistry to it. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th January 2023
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Record Review, 11th February 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Sun Triptych
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Dasol Kim (piano), Roman Mints (violin, hurdygurdy), Kristina Blaumane (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Dobrinka Tabakova
Perhaps the most engaging work in this recital is the Sun Triptych, a three-movement nature piece for violin, cello and strings that traces the movement of light from dawn to dusk. Here, Tabakova... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Premiere
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There are moments when the music seems to call for a grandeur which this instrument can't produce, but with this recording Schubert's pianistic world is fundamentally transformed. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2019
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Record Review, 20th April 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Recording of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament
RecommendedTui Hirv (soprano) & Rainer Vilu (baritone)
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste
Adam's Lament serves as a summary of Pärt's evolution since he abandoned Modernist tendencies...The Radio Choir and Vox Clamantis affectingly convey anguished hopes for redemption while maintaining... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Choral Performance
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Keel Road
RecommendedDanish String Quartet (stringquartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin, pumporgan, fiddle, spinet, whistle), Frederik Øland (violin, whistle), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola, whistle), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello, bass, whistle), Nikolaj Busk (piano), Ale Carr (cittern), Dreamers' Circus
The heart is perhaps Once a Shoemaker, following on from an old field recording of the song on which it's based; is it here we get the distinctive, introspective sound of the clog fiddle? The... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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It's clear within minutes of this recording that Vox Clamantis are a leading interpreter of Pärt's music. They breathe it; they live it...Their tuning is so locked in that it produces an overtone-like... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Choral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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The Zehetmair Quartet's coupling focuses the music's alternating wildness and fragility with altogether unique perception. Theirs is an agitated, combustible and loving view of Schumann, a credible... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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A caressing velvety choral reassurance underpins Jaan-Eile Tulve’s tender direction of Psalm 121…Nothing is forced. The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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