Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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George Benjamin: Written on Skin
Recommendedand Duet for piano and orchestra
Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie), Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
[Purves] expresses a brooding pride and menace that makes your skin crawl. [Hannigan] makes an electrifying transformation from doe-like submissiveness to sexual predator, and the powerfully... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Premiere Award
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Musica Viva 22
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, George Benjamin
This is special. Three utterly captivating, ear-tickling pieces by composers from successive generations in superlative performances…the centrepiece of the disc is the world premiere performance... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Contemporary
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There is much playing here of a clarity, velocity and exactitude that can make the jaw drop, and he, Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony seem to be on the same conceptual page throughout.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
there are the kinds of insights that made Harnoncourt's Beethoven Symphonies such a pleasure a decade ago: the crisp articulation, the attention to detail, the impeccably moulded phrasing, the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2003, Editor's Choice
3 CDs
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Harnoncourt - Beethoven
RecommendedGidon Kremer & Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Another absorbing set, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt bringing his impeccable, historically-informed sensibilities to the modern instruments of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The Eroica is mightily... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Recording of the Year
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended
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Boulez conducts Webern Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Françoise Pollet (soprano), Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, BBC Singers, Pierre Boulez
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Peaceful Piano Moods
Ola Gjeilo (piano), Van-Anh Nguyen (piano), Music Lab Collective (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Lambert, Stephan Moccio (piano), Joep Beving (piano), Alice Sara Ott (piano), Christian Badzura (synthesizer programming),...
4 CDs
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: Fantasia, Triple Concerto & Rondo for piano & orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Thomas Zehetmair (violin) & Clemens Hagen (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Fine performances of two of Beethoven's seriously undervalued works. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2004, Disc of the Month
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The Ligeti Project Volumes 1-5
RecommendedLigeti Project, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Siegfried Palm (cello), Daniel Reuss (director), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano), Amadinda Percussion Group (percussion), Sybille Mahni (natural horn), Thomas Bernstein (natural horn), Simon...
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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