Zoltan Kocsis
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Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsodies for Violin & Orchestra
Barnabás Kelemen (violin)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis
Not only does Kelemen possess all the necessary technical brilliance to master every aspect of of Bartok's fiendishly difficult writing but he also has an instinctive and idiomatic understanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
RecommendedHungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis
Every strand in Bartók's dense contrapuntal argument emerges here with amazing clarity...The performance, too, is utterly compelling...Kocsis's steadfast refusal to let the tension sag coupled... —
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Building a Library, January 2015, Highly Recommended
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the month
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Bartok: Orchestral Suite No. 2
RecommendedBartok New Series - Vol. 6
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis
Zoltán Kocsis has a world reputation as a pianist… On this evidence his conducting is equally as mesmerising, and equally insistent on never conjuring attention away from the music...In Bartók's... —
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Finalist
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Kocsis relishes both the impressionistic colours and the earthy Hungarian rhythms and humour of the ballet score The Wooden Prince; his account of the tone poem Kossuth is widely recognised... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 32 No. 9 in A major, etc.
RecommendedZoltan Kocsis (piano)
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. —
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite and Peasant Songs
RecommendedHungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis
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Building a Library, December 2012, Recommended single CD
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Special offer. Kocsis plays Bartók - Complete Solo Piano Music
RecommendedAll of the solo piano recordings now appear for the first time in an integral collector edition and this set is a “must” for any collector interested in one of the major contributions to twentieth-century piano repertory
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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