Hi Res Download, Mussorgsky (composer)
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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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Special offer. Nostalgia
RecommendedBrahms, Mussorgsky, Bartók
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Kožená’s voice is a glory at the best of times, a coppery sunset of a tone that can send its glow across the whole sky. But if her voice is gigantic, one thing is bigger still, and it’s Bronfman’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Song
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This is more than a flawless recital played with technical bravura and a born soloist’s confidence. Abduraimov is a major pianist, worth talking about in the same breath as the international... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2021
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Record Review, 23rd January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Lewis has a natural empathy for Schumann, revelling in the first movement's impulsive changes of mood and projecting wonderfully calm inner reflection at the outset of the third. He emphasises... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Not yet 20, the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister makes an outstanding Supraphon debut with this recital of Russian music. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Newcomer
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Orchestral Choice
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You just know this is going to be good, one of those where you can just sit back and listen with unalloyed pleasure to music, artist and instrument...Certainly the best solo piano album to come... —
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The French items suit her slightly cool voice better. There’s a classy, moving grandeur to Didon’s ‘Adieu, fière cité’, and a lovely wistfulness to her Mignon…in short, here’s a beautifully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th November 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Ravel: La Valse & Mussorgsky: Tableaux d'une Exposition
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Roth certainly foregrounds each work’s grotesque qualities. The slithering string portamento in ‘Gnomus’ is striking…Roth has taken some pains to perform a version of Pictures faithful to Ravel’s... —
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Record Review, 4th April 2020, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th April 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The surprises come thick and fast…Her bright soprano can be a bit squeezed in the more conventional love-lyrics, but revels in the unorthodox, and Glynn ranges the colour-palette too. The presentation... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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