Challenge Classics
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 23
Ben Kim (piano), Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Michael Waterman
His debut with Challenge Classics reveals a sensitive touch and an awareness of the dimensions of two of Mozart’s most lyrical concertos. On their own terms, these performances give pleasure... —
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Conductors often become strangely inhibited when conducting Schoenberg’s masterly rethink, keen, no doubt, to point up its myriad instrumental subtleties. Claudio Vandelli goes in the opposite... —
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From the very opening notes of the piano at the beginning of the disc it is immediately clear that this is going to be an exceptional recording. It has all three of the essential characteristics... —
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This selection of mature Brahms piano works is performed with great sensitivity and expression by Peter Orth, who injects every note with just the right amount of colour and emotional power. —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25
Ben Kim (piano), Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Michael Waterman
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Her tone is admirably full and she paces the music knowingly, the opening of the First Sonata especially...For the Second Sonata SteinŠórsdóttir integrates the Bachian and Dies irae motifs well... —
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