Chamber, Duos, Violin & Piano Duos, Busoni (composer)
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Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
RecommendedAlexander Melnikov (harpsichord/fortepiano/tangent piano/piano)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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the performances...are all you could hope from a player of such quality, faced with repertoire he might have been born to interpret. This is playing of a very high order, such as...one seldom... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Instrumental
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Piano
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Most of these pieces are light, even frothy morceaux, and Plowright does not overstate the musical case for them beyond their obvious delights of refinement and dexterity. But he balances them... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
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David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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The Sibelius Edition Volume 13 - Miscellaneous Works
RecommendedFolke Gräsbeck (piano), Andrew Barnett (glockenspiel), Harri Viitanen (1967 Marcussen organ of Helsinki Cathedral) Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Hannu Jurmu (tenor) & Johan Simberg (recitation)
Finnish Radio Orchestra, Tempera Quartet, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dominante Choir & YL Male...
The final instalment in the Swedish label BIS’s Sibelius survey mops up the odds and ends. There’s an incredible range of material strewn across the four discs in this set. Much of it is superb,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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John Adams - Collected Works
Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet), James Maddalena (baritone, vocals), Sanford Sylvan (baritone, vocals), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone, vocals), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano, vocals), Carolann Page (soprano),...
There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Busoni - Piano Concerto & Turandot Suite
John Ogdon (piano) & Thomas Ades (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra & Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Daniel Revenaugh, Frederik Prausnitz & Riccardo Muti
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In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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