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The Romantic Piano Concerto 26 - Litolff
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Litolff's dauntingly ambitious structures accommodate every possible style, looking forwards and backwards Janus-style, yet reaching out in the strange almost Alkanesque oddity of the Fifth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2001, Editor's Choice
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It remains only to say that the solo male voices of The Binchois Consort are at the top of their form and that the presentation (with booklet material by Fitch and Andrew Kirkman) meets Hyperion’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 4 - Arensky and Bortkiewiez
Stephen Coombs (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk
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Locatelli - Sonatas Op. 4
VI Introduttioni Teatrali & VI Concerti
Elizabeth Wallfisch (directed from the violin)
The Raglan Baroque Players
The Raglan Baroque Players and Elizabeth Wallfisch are doing great service to the music of Locatelli. This excellent band … seem to revel in the fertile invention and sheer ebullience of the... —
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The Pacifica Quartet have more chance to show their mettle in the less extravagant Second String Quartet…both pieces are excellent examples of how far a composer can go on intuition, energy... —
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Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... —
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To extract colour and atmosphere from a harpsichord is a much bigger challenge than to do so from a Steinway, but Esfahani brings a pleasantly varied palette to his task...This a plain and straightforward... —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Introspective (but never lost in introspection) one minute, of the most refined bravura the next, he expresses a personality all his own, brilliantly alert to mercurial changes of mood and clearly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, February 2014, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gugnin rivets us in orchestral-sounding climaxes…and the metaphysical twilight zones in between…Gugnin finds surprising poetry in the music...[The Limpid Stream] requires only poetic sensibility,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Instrumental
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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