Pablo Heras-Casado
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
These are invigorating performances of Beethoven’s first and last concertos, conveying an admirable sense of spontaneity…The entire performance [of No. 2] radiates energy and enjoyment… Bezuidenhout... —
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Record Review, 15th February 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Concerto Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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[El sombrero de tres picos] The performance quickly settles down into one of the most witty, colorful, and absorbing sensual of the work’s recent outings. —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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With the right kind of instruments to hand, Heras-Casado understands well the nature of Bruckner’s orchestrations. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & 2 Overtures
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
I have never heard this concerto sound so interesting and surprising. It is, of course, known as Beethoven’s most introspective. Here it fascinates anew for the sheer sounds it makes and for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps & Eötvös: Alhambra Concerto
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Orchestre de Paris, Pablo Heras-Casado
Heras-Casado’s interpretation of The Rite is more sensual and clearly-etched than shatteringly powerful, despite the force of the bass in a recording which judiciously spotlights woodwind, coming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th April 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 1
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Bezuidenhout’s instrument is an echt Érard…It’s capable of a wide range of colours and dynamics [Bezuidenhout is] as happy to allow his passagework to rumble away within the body of the orchestra... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Piano Trio Op. 36 (Symphony No. 2)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
There’s no question of a timid approach, and the clean timbre of the period instruments is echoed by the soloists, entering one by one. Especially fetching is the empathy between Faust and Queyras,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral Fantasy
Christiane Karg (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Pablo Heras-Casado
It goes beyond [Hogwood and Norrington], not in the remarkable speed at which it all moves, but in the intensity with which every player invests his part in its fury and wildness…I hadn’t heard... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Schumann: Violin Concerto
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
The great advantage of presenting Schumann on period instruments is brilliantly demonstrated here. Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra's urgent account of the orchestral accompaniment... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd March 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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