SACD, Brahms (composer)
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building A Library, October 2025, Top Choice (Brahms)
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Special offer. Soirée
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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His warmth and sincerity combine with a superbly assured and powerful technique to create one of the finest performances [of the F minor Sonata] on record...His Handel Variations, too, are subtly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet,... —
