Ivo Kahánek
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There is no higher praise possible than to say that the spirit of Rudolf Firkušný hovers over this new release…Kahánek’s new versions are worthy of standing in this company, and his account... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 30th November 2019, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Concerto
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It’s a great set that all lovers of quality Romantic piano music should investigate without delay. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Martinu: Cantatas
Pavla Vykopalova (soprano), Ludmila Hudeckova (contralto), Martin Slavik (tenor), Jiri Bruckler (baritone), Petr Svoboda (baritone), Jaromir Meduna (recitation) & Ivo Kahanek (piano)
Members of the Bennewitz Quartet & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukas Vasilek
Baritone Jirí Brückler is superb here, and the top-quality professional Prague Philharmonic Choir master the most harmonically rich cantata of the four, a tale of a girl who doesn’t recognise... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Choral
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Kalabis: Sonatas for Cello / Clarinet / Violin and Piano
Ivo Kahanek (piano), Tomas Jamnik (cello), Anna Paulova (clarinet), Jan Fiser (violin)
The three interpreters are some of the Czech Republic's most brilliant young instrumentalists. Anchoring things is pianist Ivo Kahánek who has already recorded Kalabis' solo piano music for... —
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Janková’s clear, silvery soprano offsets Král’s light, warm baritone throughout. Nothing is over-dramatised or tipped towards sentimentality, though Janková can be extraordinarily poignant…Král... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Risonanza
Czech Music for Oboe, Harp & Piano
Katerina Englichova (harp), Vilem Veverka (oboe) & Ivo Kahanek (piano)
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…Kahánek… and Jamník deliver a beautifully judged account of this entire sunlit sonata [Martinu's 3rd sonata]… —
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Ivo Kahánel's… very well recorded performances are direct, at best cultivating a beautifully understated virtuosity, though at times prosaic… His reading of Gideon Klein's fine Piano Sonata,... —
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all his performances have a natural grace and impetus. Nothing is over-stretched, exaggerated or rhetorical...He is hauntingly reflective in the Fourth Scherzo's central piu lento —
