Markus Becker
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[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 79 - Pfitzner & Braunfels
Markus Becker (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Constantin Trinks
One key aspect of Pfitzner’s endlessly fascinating Piano Concerto that immediately strikes home is its harmonic richness…Like most of Braunfels’s music that I’ve heard, [his concerto] suggests... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Becker commands the strcuture of each work, and if he finds less with than Gould in the lighter Second Sonata, he is still very impressive in the virtuosity of the Third...this profoundly rewarding... —
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Those who like their Romantic bravura piano with added stamina will find this release…a rewarding experience. —
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Reger: Piano Concerto (Live Recording) & Piano Pieces
Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Joshua Weilerstein
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto (piano)
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Tanja Becker-Benda offers absolutely stunning playing throughout this warmly recorded disc. She makes light work of the formidable technical challenges in the opening Allegro con fuoco of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Disc of the month
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Exceptionally rewarding … It would be difficult to find more persuasive advocates than cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Markus Becker, both of whom are steeped inside the idiom and know exactly... —
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Special offer. Antheil: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Eiji Oue
Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled 'bad boy of music'… is in fine kleptomaniac form at a time when he idolised Stravinsky and plagiarised compulsively.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 55 - Widor
Markus Becker (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
In between [the Concertos] comes the Fantasie for piano and orchestra (1889), a thematically taut score that finds Roscoe and Yates in imaginative dialogue. Highly recommended, this should secure... —
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