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American Classics - Amy Beach
RecommendedAlan Feinberg (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Composed in 1898-9, Amy Beach's ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An expansively rhetorical Allegro moderato launches the work before a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 'Emperor' & 0
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Playing a bright-toned Fazioli grand with grand with steely authority, Giltburg gives a fine account of the ‘Emperor’ Concerto...In short, a reliable, inexpensive, straight-down-the-middle modern... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 & Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto
[Giltburg] delivers one of the most structurally lucid accounts of the Concerto that I’ve heard. Apart from his clear sense of direction…I also admire his capacity to create a sense of spontaneity... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto
Ashley Wass (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd
Ashley Wass's commanding way with the solo part is beautifully poised in the Romanza, while admirably resisting any temptation to smooth over the Toccata's hard edges. Both in the Concerto... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
RecommendedRoberto Díaz (viola), James Button (oboe)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)
RecommendedZuill Bailey (cello) & Paul Jacobs (organ)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Strikingly impressive performances of wittily crafted and accessible contemporary large-scale orchestral scores. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony
RecommendedMary Kathryn Van Osdale (violin), Erik Gratton (flute) & Ann Richards (flute/piccolo), Terrence Wilson (piano)
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
This disc… also draws attention to a name new to me: Giancarlo Guerrero. Watch out for more from him — More…
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Orchestral Performance
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Piano Concerto No. 2
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Bliss: Piano Concerto
Peter Donohoe & Martin Roscoe (pianos)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Concerto for Two pianos is the most lively, attractive work on the disc, full of quick, spiky wit and delight on colour, all well brought out by Donohoe and Roscoe — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2004, Editor's Choice
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