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Special offer. Notations & Sketches
Solo piano works by Boulez, Dutilleux and Messiaen
Alexander Soares (piano)
Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match this new release in its balanced conception or consistency of execution…Soares... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
and music by Stravinsky and Prokofiev
Alexander Ullman (piano)
The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really doesn’t help…He combines sensitivity and agility at the highest level, which... —
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Record Review, 6th April 2019, Disc of the Week
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Hughes gives us a very direct performance of [No.1], free of any interpretative exaggeration. The playing of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is first class in all departments...Hughes’s account... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Special offer. Mendelssohn & Sinding: Violin Concertos
Lea Birringer (violin), Hofer Symphoniker, Hermann Bäumer
In every track, Birringer solidifies her rising stardom as one of Europe’s most recognized and accomplished violinists. [...] That Birringer excels in both pieces, in both a capacity for high... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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The Jubilees’ approach to both works is impressive and controversial in equal measure. Ensemble and tuning are phenomenally precise, and individual and collective tone never forced. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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I’d suggest that not since Martin Isepp accompanied Janet Baker on that bargain Saga long-player from many moons ago has a British singer made a more auspicious recital debut on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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This is a deeply thought-through, bewitchingly rendered succession of interpretations…This is also one of those rare albums truly conceived as a whole listen from start to finish…Whatever Silverstein... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Newcomer
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, Piano Sonatas 24 & 28
RecommendedKarim Said (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Said's approach is finely tuned to Beethoven's idiom, and he gives us a Third Concerto full of character and elan, while maintaining a cogent, balanced view of the whole piece...It's one of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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This is the kind of disc you can put on and just relax into like a warmth bath with a wine glass to hand. Alexander Ullman doesn't try to make these pieces more spectacular than they are, but... —
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There are already more transcriptions of Bach’s D minor Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 than you can shake the proverbial stick at, but Humphreys’s version astutely curates more of Bach’s original... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Instrumental Choice
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