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Instrumental » Piano Solos
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The longer pieces on this recording show Louis Lortie at his splendid best, making light of technical demands and building up climaxes with total authority. —
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one of the indisputably great pianists in history, albeit captured when he was judged to be past his prime (he was 65 when he made his first disc recording) - though few living pianists at the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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The Complete Chopin Edition
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Claudio Arrau (piano), Anatol Ugorski (piano), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Rafal Blechacz (piano), Yundi Li (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Kurt Bauer, Heidi Bung (pianos),...
The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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...the Russian pianist, not usually associated with period-conscious performance, makes a valuable contribution to the project, and unifies this miscellany with his interpretative authority...it's... —
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Special offer. Shura Cherkassky - 80th Birthday Recital from Carnegie Hall
RecommendedShura Cherkassky (piano)
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Polish by birth and French by musical upbringing, this great artist was ideally qualified as a Chopin interpreter ... Of all the fine Chopin players of my experience he is the most individual,... —
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Special offer. Pleyel & Contemporaries
Music for piano duo, played on the Pleyel Double Grand Piano
Duo Egris & Pertis
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