Concertos, Alkan (composer)
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Wee is a sensation; there’s no other word to describe his jaw-dropping playing. This is the Australian pianist’s debut album, and it’s a blockbuster. All of this is captured in the most spectacular... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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If you are yet to be convinced by Valentin Alkan's music, this intelligent and magnificently played programme, displaying contrasting sides of the composer's personality, is for you. As for... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
Purchase product
50 CDs
$174.50 -
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 7 - Alkan and Henselt
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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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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The most dazzling piano disc of the year —
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[Concerto] This is, in other words, a performance that highlights the work’s lyricism more than its fervor, its secrets more than its proclamations. Add to this her expert delineation of dense... —
