Download, Alkan (composer)
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If you are yet to be convinced by Valentin Alkan's music, this intelligent and magnificently played programme, displaying contrasting sides of the composer's personality, is for you. As for... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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Kelly exhibits a highly developed and polished technical command of his instrument. He has sound musical instincts and a secure intellectual grasp of a refreshingly wide repertory. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Instrumental
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Liu finds a rare – miraculous – balance between the liquidity that works so well in Chopin and the lightly plucked style that retains the essence of Rameau’s originally harpsichord-based music. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Not only does Nolan’s playing exhibit a death-defying virtuosity, Signum’s richly spacious recording is guaranteed to put the swankiest of speaker systems through its paces. —
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Technically Viner is amazingly accurate, yet nothing sounds glib; he never makes a single ugly sound and his pedalling is so surely judged that…each and every note can be heard…the playing makes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Alkan's Sonata has been recorded several times before, yet it has remained obstinately in the wings of the cello repertoire. This new version must surely drag it centre-stage. It is a masterpiece:... —
