Nelson Goerner
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Right from the first bars of the first piece, Op. 9 No. 1, it’s clear that each note has been thought about – and each note’s place in the bigger musical picture…Goerner’s Chopin was special... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Instrumental Choice
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to hear Nelson Goerner navigating Schumann's variety of textures with so much delicacy, good sense, beauty of tone and rapt atmospheres is a treat indeed...the intelligence, spirit and vividness... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Disc of the month
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Goerner plays Nowakowski & Krogulski
Nelson Goerner (piano), Lena Neudauer (violin), Erzhan Kulibaev (violin), Katarzyna Budnik-Gałazka (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Sławomir Rozlach (double bass), Jan Krzeszowiec (flute), Radosław Soroka (clarinet)
If [Goerner] is the de facto star of proceedings, rightly setting the pace and tone, his partners match him every step of the way...This superbly recorded disc is the most enjoyable chamber... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Rachmaninov: Music For Two Pianos
Martha Argerich (piano) with Nelson Goerner (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) with Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) with Gabriela Montero (piano), Martha Argerich (piano four hands), Daniel Gerzenberg, Anton Gerzenberg, Lilya Zilberstein (piano six hands), Alexander Mogilevsky (pianos)
It is...rather more than a convenient repertoire compendium because, taken overall, there are few finer versions anywhere of each title...All in all, a Rachmaninov-fest to savour. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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[this is] a disc that can only solidify Goerner's reputation as one of the outstanding Chopin exponents of his generation…his interpretations are never less than original, deeply considered... —
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Goerner successfully points out the various landmarks – such as the Spanish jota motif that is woven across all four books – without distracting from the overall free-form shape of the music.... —
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If ever there were a piano sonata with a symphony lurking inside, it is the Brahms F minor. To Goerner’s immense credit, he doesn’t detonate the instrument in an effort to accommodate the occasionally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Nelson Goerner (piano)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
Goerner’s beauty of touch is manifest on the first page and, though he has the heft for the chunkier passages, the piano is never allowed to clang…There are, among listeners, otherwise dedicated... —
