Instrumental, Haydn (composer)
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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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Hamelin kicks off with the late C major Sonata, H50, nailing his virtuoso credentials firmly to the mast with a mercurial account of its opening movement. Some may prefer Schiff's more measured... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Instrumental Choice
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It takes a formidable pianist to bring Haydn's Sonatas vividly to life on a modern Steinway...The pianist doesn't hesitate to use the colours available on a modern piano, and understands that... —
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While holding in reserve the sonorous depths and gradations of pedalling offered by the modern grand piano, his touch is predominantly light, with an evenness of figuration and crispness of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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the playing is outstanding for its crystalline tone, springy rhythms, lively tempos and integral handling of ornamentation...Hamelin is often at his most brilliant where Haydn is at his most... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Instrumental
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The humour that is so integral to Haydn emerges naturally from the music itself; Donohoe knows that in these sonatas and caprices, a sly wink is far more effective than mugging for the microphone. —
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Rondeau’s interpretations of this music suggest that for the likes of Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven and Debussy, harpsichord sonorities were very much in their mind’s ear. In particular, Rondeau’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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…a luminous evenness of touch and a wonderful lightness in his decorations and runs. …his account of the Adagio of the E flat, HobXVI:49, has a tenderness of its own. And while his account... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2009
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Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings
Decca Masters and Radio Tapes 1970-2002
Radu Lupu (piano), Tel Aviv String Quartet, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kazimierz Kord
The very qualities that limited his discography - doubt, self-criticism, an acute fear of exposure - are precisely those that give these recordings their emotional charge. Heard now, they do... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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