Instrumental, Mozart (composer)
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Mozart Momentum - 1785
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
highlights include a finely attentive account of the G minor Piano Quartet, showing vivid collegiality between the performers; Andsnes’s C minor Fantasy, perfectly balanced and full of dramatic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Recording of the Month
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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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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Special Achievement Award
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There is much to admire here thanks to Ólafsson’s superb pianism, most notably in Haydn’s Sonata No. 47, Mozart’s little C major Sonata and his Adagio in B minor; his Kleine Gigue goes like... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Piano
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By common consent, Mitsuko Uchida is among the leading Mozart pianists of today, and her recorded series of the piano sonatas won critical acclaim as it appeared and finally Gramophone Awards... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Mozart 'The Weber Sisters'
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
the concert-aria and operatic readings themselves are gems, each one thrown off with a splendid combination of technical brilliance, musicianly assurance and tonal sweetness, and impeccably... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Recital
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He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Throughout, the playing is thoughtful and full of poetry, recorded in intimate sound. There’s an elusive quality to this multifaceted programme, for sure, but on balance it repays attentive... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Their combined musical imagination feels so intertwined that it emerges seemingly as the natural extension of a single interpretative personality…so keenly attuned are Tiberghien and Ibragimova... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Instrumental
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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A bold and dramatic account of Mozart's K475C minor Fantasia opens this memorable and imaginatively devised recital. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Instrumental Choice
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If the programme sounds familiar, the reality is anything but. The first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 emerges spacious and unhurried…The Op. 119 Bagatelles are an even greater... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th May 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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2 CDs + DVD Video
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