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Hu brings impressive pianistic skills to Granados. She is a deft colourist, with a multitude of attach and release strategies, making her articulation both precise and varied. Her sound is plush... —
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Well known for their witty, well crafted arrangements, the Calefax Quintet are on top form here in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Barber’s jaunty Excursions. Azmeh and Hekkema’s Airports for... —
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Special offer. Mendelssohn - Piano Trios
RecommendedJulia Fischer (violin), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) & Jonathan Gilad (piano)
It's good to hear these great works played with full ardour by such a talented group of young musicians. —
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff - Romances
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Many of the songs here make formidable technical demands on the pianist as well as the singer, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to Beczała when I say that Deutsch’s playing would be worth... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2023
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Special offer. Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 and variations
Matt Haimovitz (cello), Christopher O'Riley (fortepiano)
Haimovitz and O'Riley are intelligent and sympathetic of these sonatas, and also of the three shorter sets of variations. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Here’s playing that penetrates this music to a degree that surprised even a fully paid-up [Schumann] fan like me. The Emerson are such a fine ensemble, but they’re also four strongly individual... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Chamber Choice
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The usual suspects - Ives (In the Mornin' includes mandolinist Joseph Brent), Copland, Peterson - are present and correct, alongside a smoky rendition of Bill Evans's arrangement of Bernstein's... —
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck
The opening horn calls and the piano’s response immediately lands us into the composer’s trademark long-legged melodies, coloured and shaped by Piemontesi with vigour and sensitivity — a soloist,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski lacks nothing in terms of passionate commitment – the impact of his recording, especially when the SACD surround-track is activated, is all-engulfing – and conjures up a compelling... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 1st December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Special offer. Taneyev, S: Cantata No. 2 'At the Reading of a Psalm', Op. 36
St Petersburg Cappella Choir, Boys Choir of the Glinka Choral Academy, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
