Instrumental, Glinka (composer)
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The pieces Malofeev has chosen here are brilliantly subtle and irresistibly seductive - and gorgeously played...This is his first album for Sony, and they want us to know that this 24-year-old... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Young Talent
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Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Instrumental Choice
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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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an intelligently curated recital with song at the centre. It begins with Romances by Clara and Robert Schumann back to back, both showcasing the warmth and evenness of Ioudenitch’s sonority... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winnter - Chamber
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Glinka: Spanish Overture No. 1 'Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonese', etc.
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky
This is a more comprehensive survey than that available on ASV with the Armenian Philharmonic under Loris Tjeknavorian. Both conductors include the two 'Spanish Overtures', the Valse-fantaisie... —
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Malcolm Binns - A 90th Birthday Tribute
Malcolm Binns (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Norman Del Mar
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So the journey ends. A project that began back in 1994 has finally reached its conclusion with this sixth volume...Walker’s dedication to the cause and determination to see it through demands... —
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Georgian-born prodigy Inga Fiolia is the perfect guide to Glinka’s piano music. Her technique is solid and fluent, and she is clearly attuned to Glinka’s mode of expression; she has an ability... —
