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Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 and Op. 1, No. 3
RecommendedLeonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
In the ‘Pastoral’, Ax had to contend with some ungrateful writing, notably in accompanying figures, but he is liberated [in Op. 1 No. 3], with trills and passagework sparkling effortlessly in... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Buniatishvili’s sensitivity, lyricism and jubilance – not to mention flawless technique – suits Rachmaninov’s concertos…[his] concertante writing features complex interplay between soloist and... —
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Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch take a brisk no-nonsense approach to Dichterliebe, eschewing the poetic affectations that can mar readings of Schumann's cycle...There's not a foot-fault... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Video Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Audiovisual Music Production
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The performances range from a touchingly direct version of Maria from West Side Story, to a distinctly mannered You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which Kaufmann delivers in an oddly halting... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Film Music/Score of the Year
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Brahms, Beethoven & Mozart: Clarinet Trios
RecommendedYo-Yo Ma (cello), Richard Stolzman (clarinet), Emanuel Ax (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Tristan - Vinyl Edition
RecommendedIgor Levit (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Franz Welser-Möst
If I had to pick one word to describe this recording, it would be ‘ intense’...An unsentimental, unshowy and rather lovely Liebestraum No. 3 opens proceedings; a cathartic Harmonies du soir... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2022
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Mozart: Viola Concerto & Sinfonia Concertante
Berlin Barock Solisten (early music ensemble), Diyang Mei (viola), Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin)
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Jonas Kaufmann - Puccini: Love Affairs
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Pretty Yende (soprano), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Malin Byström (soprano), Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Maria Agresta (soprano), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Asher Fisch
It is good to welcome Maria Agresta as an authentically Italian Madam Butterfly, and Malin Byström’s voice records well in La fanciulla del West, where she and Kaufmann make a splendid coupling... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Zal - The Music of Milosz Magin
Lucas Debargue (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
What a splendid case these artists make for his richly melodic, often cinematic voice: Debargue revels in the helter-skelter virtuosity of the Piano Concerto No. 3 (composed seven years after... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Kanneh-Mason never takes a musical idea and beats you around the head with it: if anything, it feels improvised and throwaway. It’s refreshing to have a young musician not deliver something... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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