Chamber, Duos, Prokofiev (composer)
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Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas & Five Melodies
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin), Steven Osborne (piano)
From the austere opening bars...it's clear that this violin-and-piano duo is capable of the subtlest interplay. Steven Osborne is the lion, or the demon, that needs taming by Alina Ibragimova's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), with Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin), with Andrew Armstrong (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
I have not heard such a beautiful performance of the First Violin Concerto since Itzhak Perlman's 1982 EMI recording, and Ehnes enjoys the advantage of a more natural balance with the orchestra...Ehnes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto No. 2
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Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Olli Mustonen (piano)
Isserlis and his long-term colleague Olli Mustonen make a compelling case for Kabalevsky’s Cello Sonata, finding such expressive drama that for once I was not distracted by the Sonata’s obvious... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 2nd February 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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There is a fairly high level of intensity in these Prokofiev works for the young Czech players to meet, and they rise vividly to the challenge...it's probably right that [they] feel its ebb... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Prokofiev for Two
RecommendedAll works transcribed for two pianos by Sergei Babayan.
Martha Argerich (piano) & Sergei Babayan (piano)
Argerich and Babayan excel at the hard-hitting stuff, which also includes the opening and closing of Babayan’s idiosyncratic Romo and Juliet sequence. The percussive chords at the beginning... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (20th/21st-Century Music)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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a sign of real interpretive strength from the duo… Pärt’s work requires a sort of engagement through detachment at the very least; it gets that here… It’s the sisters’ mode of playing… that... —
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Prokofiev
Nemanja Radulović (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Laure Favre-Kahn (piano), Johan Dalene (violin)
There’s a daredevil freshness about Nemanja Radulović’s playing that makes this generously filled disc of Prokofiev particularly rewarding...The concerto receives a subtle, supportive reading... —
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Special offer. Rachmaninov & Prokofiev: Works for Cello and Piano
Johannes Moser (cello) & Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)
Johannes Moser and Andrei Korobeinikov bring both muscle and imagination to these two epic Russian sonatas —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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