Francesco Piemontesi
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Special offer. Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Liszt: Années de pélerinage; Première année - Suisse & Légende 2
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano)
Piemontesi’s pianism can hold its own alongside anyone’s in terms of absolute technical facility. He also has a special affinity with the lyrical directness in Liszt’s idiom…You can’t really... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck
The opening horn calls and the piano’s response immediately lands us into the composer’s trademark long-legged melodies, coloured and shaped by Piemontesi with vigour and sensitivity — a soloist,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 26
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi’s playing is mostly magnificent, with crystalline clarity, radiant tone and eloquent phrasing. In the fine and intriguing cadenzas, he shines with surety of purpose —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th August 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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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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It’s been worth the wait. Each piece reflects absolute clarity of intention, even in the case of the longest and most episodic one, ‘Ricordanza’...The Sonata in B minor gets a noble reading... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Newcomer of the Year
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi pays avid attention to the tonal calibration of every note and phrase. Andrew Manze matches him by controlling the orchestral balance to a T and choosing tempos that suit the music... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Piemontesi’s instinctive good taste means he never indulges in histrionics, and operates on the principle that understatement can carry more emotional power than its converse. This performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Both [originals and transcriptions] are played, tantalisingly, with a keen sense of place and time – the Bach affectionately and glowingly, but with a modern stylistic sensitivity, the Busoni... —
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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