Concertos, Piano Concertos, Brahms (composer)
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Schiff conducts from the keyboard...securing crisp ensemble and cogent longer-term grasp of structure in his forward-moving tempos...The wiry tone of his restored circa-1859 Blüthner grand may... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 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 - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Brahms: Piano Concertos & Solo Piano Op. 116-119
RecommendedIgor Levit (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Levit’s utterly compelling accounts of the late sets are the more impressive element in this collection. He does not put a foot wrong in any of them; each piece is perfectly shaped, its subtly... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Concerto
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedIvan Moravec (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Clearly working in absolute rapport with Mark Wigglesworth, they achieve together a lean, at times almost wiry sound...yet there is no lack of muscular force or orchestral power in the many... —
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The booklet-notes make reference to the original Gramophone review, in which Gilels and Jochum were praised for 'a rapt songfulness that in no way detracts from Brahms's heroism, and so comes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 8 Piano Pieces Op. 76
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, May 2026, Tpo Choice (Piano Concerto No. 2)
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Four Ballades
Lars Vogt (piano)
Royal Northern Sinfonia
[Vogt] may well have conducted the orchestral tuttis, but everything sounds like large-scale chamber music…The pianist’s thinking behind this programme is evidently the way in which this music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck
The opening horn calls and the piano’s response immediately lands us into the composer’s trademark long-legged melodies, coloured and shaped by Piemontesi with vigour and sensitivity — a soloist,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
RecommendedVladimir Horowitz (piano)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, November 2022, Also Recommended - Tchaikovsky
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