Alexandre Tharaud
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Devieilhe has the ideal voice for the Ariettes oubliées, with a creamily dreamy opening to ‘C’est l’extase’. Her iridescent clarity is to the fore throughout...matched by Alexandre Tharaud’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Song)
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Special offer. Mirages
RecommendedOpera Arias & Songs
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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Special offer. Four Hands
RecommendedAlexandre Tharaud (piano), Bruce Liu (piano), David Fray (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Gautier Capuçon (piano), Juliette (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Momo Kodama (piano), Mariam Batsashvili...
One of Tharaud’s aims is to reveal repertoire which has been largely lost, and in this respect he is resoundingly successful...Everything here has charm, and radiates what should always be the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Special offer. Tharaud plays Rachmaninov
RecommendedAlexandre Tharaud (piano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Aleksandar Madžar (piano) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov
After the famous introductory bars – following the score rather than the composer’s recording – the sweeping first subject enters faster, thankfully, than Richter’s celebrated account but with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Versailles - Alexandre Tharaud
RecommendedAlexandre Tharaud (piano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Justin Taylor (piano)
He doesn’t let the fact that some of this music is inherently unpianistic get in his way…It’s a beautifully programmed disc – so much so that it begs to be heard complete. And the sense that... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud are on their customary vir tuosic form, and their take on this music is full of vitality but, as Dr Charles Burney once remarked upon the music of CPE... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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if Tharaud is evidently aware of the stylistic insights afforded by the scholarly diggings of the past few decades, he's unrepentantly pianistic in his approach...Tharaud's is playing with personality,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & other works for cello and piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
a masterstroke of programme planning —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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Relaxing Piano
Leif Ove Andsnes, Fazil Say, Anne Queffélec, Shani Diluka, Alexandre Tharaud, Aldo Ciccolini, Dalal, Maxence Cyrin, Helen Jane Long, Carlos Cipa (piano)
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