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Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata
Alexander Ullman (piano), Susan Monks
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 23rd July 2022, Record of the Week
some of the classiest pianism I’ve heard in the concertos recently...Ullman’s control is simply magnificent, whether in the clarity of his touch, the way he phrases the delicately rhetorical...
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata
Alexander Ullman (piano), Susan Monks
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 23rd July 2022, Record of the Week
some of the classiest pianism I’ve heard in the concertos recently...Ullman’s control is simply magnificent, whether in the clarity of his touch, the way he phrases the delicately rhetorical...
About
Alexander Ullman was the winner of the 2011 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music. His teachers include William Fong, Leon Fleisher and Dmitri Alexeev. Alexander’s debut album on Rubicon was a recital of great Russian ballet music arranged for piano – Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky – and received enthusiastic reviews from around the world. This album is his first concerto recording – the two Liszt Concertos are coupled with the B minor Sonata.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAugust 2022Editor's Choice
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Record Review23rd July 2022Record of the Week
August 2022
some of the classiest pianism I’ve heard in the concertos recently...Ullman’s control is simply magnificent, whether in the clarity of his touch, the way he phrases the delicately rhetorical fioritura, or his gradation of dynamics within a trill or a run (try the end of the First Concerto’s first movement).
Nov/Dec 2022
Ullman makes Concerto No. 1 sound more interesting and varied than I’ve ever heard it...The less visceral Concerto No. 2 offers wider scope for interpretation...Ullman and Litton take full advantage of the possibilities for creating atmosphere and mood—the work emerges like a tone poem with piano solo.
August 2022
These performances are not out to dazzle their listeners but to pull back the curtain on the unique imagination of one of the foremost architects of musical Romanticism. Very highly recommended.
26th June 2022
Ullman captures with startling clarity and musicality the twin instincts within Liszt of tradition and experimentation.
