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Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Piano Sonatas
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Hamelin builds the Second Sonata… unerringly, producing a poetic and passionate performance that is finally carried off on a spectral wind. Hamelin… opens with an exquisitely textured Berceuse.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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he really is phenomenal: this music seems to flow out of him with such relaxed and elegant perfection — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The first movement of Sonata No. 3 is a particular delight...delivering wonderful nuances of phrasing and touch. He captures the marking of the Scherzo, Molto vivace, with an ideal balance between... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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these interpretations hold interest for Rana’s strong personality, her obvious and sincere engagement with these works and her willingness to take risks in pursuit of the music behind the notes.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Perhaps not the most multi-faceted Chopin playing , with too much emphasis on approaching the composer back through a Romantic lens rather than forward through a Classical one, but a characteristically... — More…
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Even in a very crowded field there are new things to say. Even more to the point is the fact that this young French pianist says them with complete naturalness, for there is nothing contrived... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Newcomer
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The Complete Masterworks Recordings Vol. I
RecommendedThe Studio Recordings 1962-1963
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Classical Album of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Murray Perahia plays Chopin
RecommendedMurray Perahia (piano)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
A self-recommending six-disc set...which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As Bryce Morrison said of that disc: 'From Perahia there is order and lucidity at the heart... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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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,... — More…
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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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