Genres:
Instrumental » Piano Solos » Partitas
-
Helmchen is drawn to the hybrid capabilities of his instrument, which stimulate fresh insights into how Bach’s Partitas can be played and experienced. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
-
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Instrumental
-
-
To hear this wonderful music played by Hewitt with such a remarkable sense of style and poise on a concert grand is a special treat for listeners of all persuasions…Hewitt sounds completely... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
-
-
[His] supple sensitivity underpins a formidable yet remarkably unshowy expressive power...Feuillâtre’s acute musical intelligence allies with frequent ornamentation...It ’s an exquisite, joyfully... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Instrumental Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Newcomer
-
-
Everything has been deeply considered. Everything works. Hewitt makes a beautiful, limpid sound; her ornaments are exquisitely precise as well as sounding natural; she uses the subtle shadings... —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, December 2000, Piano Choice
-
-
At its pungent best, Esfahani’s joie de vivre can be uniquely captivating. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
-
-
In this second volume of Richard Goode's complete set of Bach Partitas there's the sense of a distinguished lineage, a tradition of Bach piano playing with a Classical-Romantic bent that reaches... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Disc of the Month
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Newcomer of the Year
-
-
Awards:
-
Building a Library, December 2000, First Choice
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
J. S. Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 11
Clavier-Übungen I & II
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord)
Unlike his previous accounts for Alpha in 2010, characterisation is now refocused with eloquent intimacy and with less reliance on acoustical resonance, applying a subtler and more personal... —
-
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
-
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording
-
