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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014More…
Release Date:
1st Sep 2014
Catalogue No: CDA67936
Label: Hyperion
Length: 71 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
CD
$14.50
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In the case of the very expansive Chopin Variations… Sudbin makes a persuasive case for this unjustly neglected work, demonstrating not only breathtaking technical control throughout, but also... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
31st Oct 2005
Catalogue No: BISSACD1518
Label: BIS
Length: 63 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Instrumental Choice
SACD
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Format: Hybrid Multi-channel
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This is very exciting playing in two very taxing works...Lugansky produces plenty of fire and brimstone, but also creates a tender and refined sound...Even at its most aggressive, his playing... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
24th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: AM208
Label: Naive
Length: 60 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
Kocsis gives arguably the finest account available of the original version of Rachmaninov's Second Sonata. In the Preludes and Etudes he is thrillingly uncompromising. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he will be appearing fairly regularly over the next few years if this Rachmaninov... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2022More…
The passages of melancholy introspection bathe in a gentle air, and the climaxes...never disappoint, though Giltburg's is not an obvious bravura...There's no denying the fullness and resonant... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
7th Oct 2013
Catalogue No: ORC100035
Label: Orchid Classics
Length: 72 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice