Hyperion
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The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity —
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Instrumental
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Mozart: Horn Concertos & Horn Quintet
RecommendedPip Eastop (natural horn)
The Hanover Band, with the Eroica Quartet, Anthony Halstead
Even those who know these concertos quite well will find much to surprise here...Not least, where most players of the natural horn seek to minimise the difference in tone of those pitches that... —
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Building a Library, September 2017, Period Instrument Choice
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they do not disappoint in this beautifully recorded set, which couples raw intensity with subtle refinement...this release is highly recommended —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 78 - Clara Schumann
RecommendedPiano Concerto & works by Hiller, Herz & Kalkbrenner
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
[Schumann] Shelley and his well-drilled Tasmanians provide the best possible case, not least in the songlike Romanze, which contains a gorgeous passage for piano and solo cello. Shelley opens... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Victoria - Missa Gaudeamus
Recommendeda liturgical sequence, with organ works by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Thomas Wilson (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin
An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2009
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 68 - Moszkowski
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kiradjiev
Angelov dispatches the hugely taxing piano part with consummate virtuosity, and the orchestra respond with alert and strongly characterised playing under Vladimir Kirjadev…a very welcome addition... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Concerto Choice
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As well as showing her ability to weave around a wide-ranging phrase, apparent in the first song on the disc, 'Einerlei', and incorporating a useful chest voice, she shows a wicked penchant... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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Possessing an instinctive feel for impressionism, and for the ebb and flow of those rhythms with their little hesitations and sudden rushes forward, Cédric Tiberghien is ideally fitted for this... —
