Instrumental, Piano Solos, Etudes, Szymanowski (composer)
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New. Ann Schein: the Complete Kapp Recordings 1958-1960
Ann Schein, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Eugene Goossens
They are something of a holy grail among devoted pianophiles...Were there still a category for historic recordings, this would be a shoo-in for a Gramophone Award. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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The young British pianist Clare Hammond is fast building a reputation as a stylish interpreter of the new or less familiar... The real interest is the set of six Etudes by Unsuk Chin (b.1961),... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Szymanowski - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Ewa Marczyk (violin solo) & Marek Marczyk (viola solo), Marek Marczyk (viola solo), Jan Krzysztof Broja (piano) & Ewa Marczyk (violin solo)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
…the Symphony No. 4… receives the slowest recorded performance I know… At the opening, with timpani tolling away underneath, the piano traces a languorously decorative line. In the middle... —
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First up is the famous Chopin, which in Wallfisch's hands flows like a river of silk, pulsing with a burnished warmth, spontaneity and vigour. His long partnership with York is shown at its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Few players of this music combine quite such clarity and articulation with shimmering sparkle and virtuosic flair: this is sophisticated pianist...You will be left either wanting to listen again,... —
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Prize Winners
From the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music 2019 Vol. 6
Pavel Dombrovsky (piano), Piotr Pawlak (piano), Mateusz Krzyżowski (piano), Marta Gidaszewska, Robert Łaguniak, Gidaszewska/Łaguniak Duo, Ãtma Quartet, Cracow Golden Quintet
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Vehviläinen copes resourcefully with [the First Sonata’s] thicket of over-written textures, replete with double glissandos and multi-voiced trills. It may be, however, that her intrepid pianism... —
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If I find myself on the whole preferring Roscoe it is because I prefer Naxos's ample and natural piano sound to Nimbus's, which I find rather disembodied and, at the top of the instrument in... —
