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Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
RecommendedThe five Beethoven piano concertos on period instruments
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Textures are bracingly lean, with a lightness and transparency that seems airborne...There’s nothing pompous or heavyhanded in these readings. Both Brautigam and Willens are alive to Beethoven’s... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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There’s a wealth of characterisation within this richly unified, bronze-dark ensemble. A deep-dug, chunky tone, often quite rugged, is offset by moments of intense sweetness, as well as great... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible - and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Freddy Kempf (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
With this disc, Freddy Kempf shoots straight into the top ten of Prokofiev interpreters...[He] keeps it all spruce and plays it relatively straight...The big Rachmaninov tune in the finale [of... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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This selection of suites allows Lindberg majestically and authoritatively to traverse a range of affects and styles. Among such treasures it is impossible to assign a hierarchy to these lithe,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston
Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)
The duo fill their phrasing, rhythm and sense of momentum with bracing fresh air, bringing maximum exhilaration to a work that too often can seem to lack it. Poltéra’s tone leaps and glows –... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
Chloë Abbott (trumpet), David Goode (organ), BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins
This is a marvellous collection, featuring impeccable production values and sound of flawless realism in the best BIS tradition. Not to be missed! —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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What's never in doubt is this music's strange power and magnificence, qualities amplified by the polish and dedication of Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping orchestra, a team that has spent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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