Jeremy Denk
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They’re in excellent sympathy, yet each has individual qualities to bring to the musical table. Denk is supremely fiery at the piano. Bell offsets him with wonderfully consistent, bright and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Chamber
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Honesty and a rounded humanity define these performances, rather than a strenuous striving for the infinite. Denk makes Ligeti's En suspens, an exercise in jazzy rubato, more tender and touching... —
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Building a Library, July 2013, Recommendation on modern piano
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Corigliano: The Red Violin Concerto
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…there is so much stirring and seductive music… and Joshua Bell brings it all off with magnificent assurance and conviction. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th September 2007
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, Orchestral Choice
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For the Love of Brahms
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Here’s an unconducted Double Concerto transformed into pure chamber music, in which two old friends spar amicably with the lithe support of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. There’s an... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Schoenberg - Violin Concerto
Rolf Schulte (violin), David Wilson-Johnson (Narrator, Reciter) & Jeremy Denk (Piano)
The Fred Sherry Quartet, Simon Joly Chorale & Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Craft
Hilary Hahn's recording of Schoenberg's Violin Concerto (see above) paraded cool beauty where others could find only sweat and tears. Yes, an overstatement perhaps – Louis Krasner and Israel... —
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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In a lengthy programme note, Jeremy Denk offers a very personal description of each work’s narrative, albeit with solid technical information. The performances themselves avoid self-indulgence,... —
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Record Review, 18th September 2021, Record of the Week
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Stravinsky: Duo Concertant
Jennifer Frautschi (violin) & Jeremy Denk (piano), Ralph van Raat and Maarten van Veen (pianos), Sally Burgess (contralto) & Roderick Williams (bass), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Richard O’Neill (Viola)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft
It's the performances of the two late serial works [the Requiem Canticles and Abraham and Isaac] that make this disc worthwhile. Craft brings real urgency to these masterpieces, and a dramatic... —
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Picker: Keys to the City, piano concerto, etc.
Jeremy Denk (piano) (premiere recording), Paul Watkins (cello)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (premiere recording), Thomas Sanderling
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John Adams - Collected Works
Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet), James Maddalena (baritone, vocals), Sanford Sylvan (baritone, vocals), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone, vocals), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano, vocals), Carolann Page (soprano),...
There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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