Medtner
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The pieces Malofeev has chosen here are brilliantly subtle and irresistibly seductive - and gorgeously played...This is his first album for Sony, and they want us to know that this 24-year-old... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Young Talent
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New. Ann Schein: the Complete Kapp Recordings 1958-1960
Ann Schein, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Eugene Goossens
They are something of a holy grail among devoted pianophiles...Were there still a category for historic recordings, this would be a shoo-in for a Gramophone Award. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
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The humorous Dithyramb No. 2 is surely a masterpiece, and Milne happily strides its Olympian terrain with unforced richness of tone. Medtner's expressive range grows on the second disc...The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Medtner & Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Expectations are inevitably high as Marc-Andre Hamelin, who marries phenomenal technique with sensitive musicianship, joins Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonia Orchestra, now truly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 2 - Medtner
RecommendedNikolai Demidenko (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk
This splendid disc is given a fine recording, good orchestral playing from a Scottish orchestra under a Polish conductor and, above all, truly coruscating and poetic playing from the brilliant... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Concerto
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Scriabin & Medtner: Piano Concertos
RecommendedYevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
These are superb performances of two underestimated concertos...this is unquestionably an engaging account, Sudbin's glistening and expressive virtuosity matched by Andrew Litton and the Bergen... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Concerto
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