Deutsche Grammophon
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This wonderful score is such a good fit for Dudamel's sleek Los Angeleans...Dudamel is terrific is the fight sequences - all flashing rapiers and keen rhythm. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Recommendedplus Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Wieniawski
María Dueñas (violin), Itamar Golan (piano), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihhail Gerts
The Paganini Caprices have energy in the bowing from the outset, confident octaves and portamento, and impeccable double stops...You could listen straight through, but I’d recommend random shuffling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Franck & Szymanowski: Works for Violin and Piano
RecommendedKaja Danczowska (violin) & Krystian Zimerman (piano)
An early recipient of a Penguin rosette, this classic 1980 recording blazes with a musical incandescence rarely captured in the studio. One of the all-time great sonata discs. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Daniel Barenboim: The Chopin Concertos
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Andris Nelsons
Always authoritative, Barenboim is by turns graceful and gutsy, an especially good combination in the E minor Concerto - and his orchestra, the Berlin Staatskapelle (here under Andris Nelsons),... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, September 2016, Also Recommended
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Dudamel’s performance of the Seventh’s first movement has marvellous lucidity, and the playing of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, excellently recorded, reflects every nuance of the score…[No.... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Drone Mass speaks in a musical language that is immediately accessible when one first encounters it, yet at the same paradoxically retains a sense of shadowy mystery even after many listenings. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd December 2022
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Tchaikovsky - None But The Lonely Heart
Violin Concerto & Other Short Works
Daniel Lozakovich (violin)
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Vladimir Spivakov
[Concerto] This is a live concert (before a silent audience), and the excitement of the music comes through the soloist’s fingers. In the finale, taken at speed, Lozakovich doesn’t pause for... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Over 20 years after his death, Schnittke’s musical games are as potent and jolting as they ever were, and Hope and Botvinov take up their challenges with wonderful verve and conviction. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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