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Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 1
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Bezuidenhout’s instrument is an echt Érard…It’s capable of a wide range of colours and dynamics [Bezuidenhout is] as happy to allow his passagework to rumble away within the body of the orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Widmann: Viola Concerto
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Signum Quartett
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
This is a wonderfully rich and rewarding concerto, packed with inventive orchestral detail. Widmann seems to move between different worlds ion the five interlinked movements, and the slower... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Premiere
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Haydn: Keyboard Concertos Hob XVIII
RecommendedAndreas Staier (fortepiano Monika May, Marburg 1986, after Walter Vienna 1785)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Many concertos are attributed to Haydn but these three are undisputedly authentic. The keyboard part in No 4 falls in a narrow compass; Andreas Staier introduces variety by ornamenting the slow... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2005, Period Instrument Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Editor's Choice
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Schumann: Cello Concerto & Piano Concerto
RecommendedChristophe Coin (cello), Andreas Staier (piano)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building a Library, June 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Also Recommended
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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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The Schumann Trilogy. Complete Concertos & Piano Trios
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
RecommendedPaul Lewis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlávek
This new set of the Beethoven concertos is interestingly different in emphasis, in that whereas I had previously thought of Lewis as primarily a thoughtful, searching player...these accounts... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th July 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the Month
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Bach, C P E: Symphony in E flat major, Wq. 179 (H654), etc.
RecommendedRaphael Alpermann (harpsichord) & Peter Bruns (cello)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
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Building a Library, September 2005, Highly Recommended
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 3 & 4
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Personality, thought Stravinsky, was Prokofiev’s strongest quality. Vadym Kholodenko has plenty of it…Though his playing is always lucid, never muddy, Kholodenko looks at these three works through... — More…
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this album – the fourth in a series from Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester – is brightly and engagingly played. — More…
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