Instrumental, Piano Solos, Klavierstücke, Mozart (composer)
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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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Special offer. Emil Gilels plays Schumann, Brahms & Chopin
Abbotsholme Arts Society, Staffordshire, 22 March 1979
Emil Gilels (piano)
The pianist endows these pieces with dignified maturity and a sense of poetry...the performances complement those studio accounts by reflecting Gilels's palpable engagement and desire to communicate... —
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Myra Hess: Live at the University of Illinois
Myra Hess (piano)
University of Illinois Sinfonietta, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, John M Kuypers, Victor Kolar
This has been an outstandingly successful series of discs – the quality of the transfers, given some intractable problems, has been generously, often triumphantly high…the series has both expanded... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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You won’t be surprised to learn there’s nothing musically flashy or flippant here; no bumble bees flying, for instance. Instead Schiff has put each of his sonata programmes under the microscope... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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Clifford Curzon - Decca Recordings Volume 2
RecommendedClifford Curzon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra and Concertgebouw Orchestra, Josef Krips and Eduard van Beinum
it is the Brahms and Schubert Sonatas that sum up perfectly all that is uniquely cherishable in Curzon's art. The playing has great humanity and freshness. Both interpretations are totally spontaneous-sounding;... —
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Building a Library, May 2006, First Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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There are things here to admire. Wherever the music challenges even Lang Lang’s tremendous technique – here in particular the three Liszt pieces – one is dazzled by the accuracy, the control... —
