Gramophone Awards, Prokofiev (composer)
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Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Concerto
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Throughout, Bavouzet displays a light touch and laudable levels of physical stamina, with a firm grasp of the very different personalities of each piece. Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic perform... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Concerto
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Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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His account of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite affords further evidence that he is one of the world’s most accomplished poets of the keyboard, and I have never heard ‘Ondine’ so dainty and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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A supremely intelligent, deeply feeling artist of the first order. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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From first electrifying note-punch to last, with so much poetry and poignancy in between, this is a tour de force of pianism highlighting what seems more than ever like the great sonata sequence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 8th February 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Instrumental
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Prokofiev - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Freddy Kempf (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
With this disc, Freddy Kempf shoots straight into the top ten of Prokofiev interpreters...[He] keeps it all spruce and plays it relatively straight...The big Rachmaninov tune in the finale [of... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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There is a fairly high level of intensity in these Prokofiev works for the young Czech players to meet, and they rise vividly to the challenge...it's probably right that [they] feel its ebb... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Hilary Hahn - Paris
RecommendedChausson, Rautavaara, Prokofiev
Hilary Hahn (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Hahn praises the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as one where ‘emotion is embraced rather than exaggerated’, and the disc is an embodiment of this crucial virtue...She admits [the Prokofiev... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Coming soon. Mussorgsky: Pictures From An Exhibition
RecommendedProkofiev: Visions Fugitives
Steven Osborne (piano)
Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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