Stephen Kovacevich
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 8 Piano Pieces Op. 76
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, May 2026, Tpo Choice (Piano Concerto No. 2)
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Kovacevich brings penetrating insight and a thrilling physical involvement. From the outset there is a driving momentum and crispness of articulation, and the bristling energy of so many variations... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Editor's Choice
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The Alchemy of the Piano - A Film By Jan Schmidt-Garre With Francesco Piemontesi
Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano), Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Jean-Rodolohe Kars, Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Antonio Pappano (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Eldar Nebolsin, Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Benjamin Heisenberg, Marieke Schroeder, Erwin Stürzer
Overall, it is a film I would call interesting and intriguing rather than great or compelling. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner (ex aequo) - Video (Performance and Documentaries)
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
violin
David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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it is the most searching and penetrating account of the work to have appeared in recent year and, given the excellence and truthfulness of the recording, must carry the strongest and most enthusiastic... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 21 & 25
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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In some respects Kovacevich's Diabelli is the Beethovenian answer to Gould's Goldberg - protean, kept on a tight rein, and product of a keen, enquiring intellect. There are more visceral performances,... —
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Building a Library, March 2000, First Choice
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Special offer. Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (formally Bishop) (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Stephen Kovacevich's recent Beethoven sonata cycle for EMI (reviewed May 2004) achieves arguably the most convincing Beethoven style of any pianist since Schnabel, and these 1970s recordings... —
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