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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
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Moura Lympany: The complete HMV recordings 1947 -1952
The Matthay School Volume 5
Moura Lympany (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Herbert Menges, Walter Susskind
Dame Moura's virtuosity quietly stuns. Her Mendelssohn, Liszt and Litolff are fleet and joyful; Granados's The Maiden and the Nightingale and Debussy's Clair de lune sing from the heart. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Backhaus's own transcriptions of the Serenade from Don Giovanni and the E flat Marche militaire of Schubert warrant pride of place…Technical display, as it were, is almost hidden, so that the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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The Op 25 Études are of special interest, the real prize being No 7 in C sharp minor, a reading of the rarest refinement and flexibility...Lortat’s exquisite touch draws from the instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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York Bowen - The complete 78rpm Recordings
Edwin York Bowen (piano)
Aeolian Orchestra, Stanley Chapple
Bowen's supple musicianship and commanding technique (you sense there's always more in reserve) could hold their own with anyone's in his era. His Beethoven and Debussy are special. Reasonable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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The complete solo 78-rpm recordings & Fauré LPs reveals an artist with a crystalline touch and a sure feeling for balance and rubato. There is a tendency to take fast pieces very fast, which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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A chance to discover the elegant playing of this largely forgotten pianist. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge: the Complete Solo Recordings
Olga Samaroff, Frank La Forge, Victor Orchestra
You can still appreciate what a rich and varied piano tone [Samaroff] produced in performances of grace and musicality. When it comes to bravura works, I think you will be astonished. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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What a pleasure to encounter the full extent of Iturbi’s superb piano playing and elegant musicianship...Beethoven’s Andante favori is a model of tenderness and poise. It also prominently displays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Re-issue of the Month
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This well-rounded set argues for a more prominent position among 20th-century pianists than Tagliaferro has generally been accorded in the anglophone literature. It also affords the pleasure... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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