Harmonia Mundi
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Ballades Op. 10
RecommendedPaul Lewis (piano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
[Lewis and Harding] encapsulate the contrasting moods of defiance and lyricism without indulging in unwarranted touches of rubato or having to negotiate awkward gear changes…Lewis brings all... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th April 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Paul Lewis is a serious artist, and the quality of his playing, beautifully captured by Harmonia Mundi's engineers, is of a very high standard throughout. Particularly fine is the Waldstein... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Disc of the Month
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As always, Paul Lewis offers playing of rare insight and intelligence. He is just as much at home in the dazzling brilliance of the C major Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3...as in the graceful lyricism... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Laloum can be trusted to be musical and thoughtful. He isn’t out to impose his personality on D 894 or to present a sharply new angle. The C-Minor Sonata, D 958, is approached the same way,... — More…
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His playing has a notably singing tone and the Steinway is very naturally recorded – so much so that we hear plenty of the pianist’s breathing, but it feels like a true performance. Laloum has... — More…
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 5 'toccata / Weimar 1708-1717'
Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments)
thoughtful, heartfelt and beautifully realised performances…Alard’s simple and direct portrayal of Bach’s unshakeable faith achieves transcendent eloquence. — More…
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Mozart: Keyboard Music Volume 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano: Paul McNulty, Divisov, Czech Republic, 2009, after Anton Walter & Sohn, Vienna, 1805. From the collection of Alexander Skeaping Unequal temperament, A=430)
Bezuidenhout offers a performance that brings out all [the Fantasia's] intensity and passion...his refreshingly imaginative performances are marred only by a liking for exaggerated pauses between... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Instrumental Choice
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He brings a thoughtfulness to the dramatic opening of the B flat minor Second Sonata and palpably enjoys the lyricism of the second theme. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Staier here plays a 2004 copy of a 1734 two-manual instrument made by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass. On this aural evidence, it’s a wonderfully versatile Rolls Royce of a harpsichord, offering a... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 6
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, I
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord/clavichord)
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