Instrumental, Piano Solos, Piano Sonatas, Rachmaninoff (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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Trust Steven Osborne to cast candlelight on the distant voices and supernatural happenings others often miss in Rachmaninov. —
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Record Review, 14th May 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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A supremely intelligent, deeply feeling artist of the first order. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Prepare to be astonished. Even allowing for the huge technical standards taken for granted today, Ivan Bessonov’s verges on phenomenal. He draws a beautifully rounded sound from the Steinway... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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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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Awards:
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Everything about his playing is lucid and well balanced, eschewing rhetorical excess and over-rich pedalling, and instead allowing the music to speak unencumbered by performerly ego. Technical... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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