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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Schiff conducts from the keyboard...securing crisp ensemble and cogent longer-term grasp of structure in his forward-moving tempos...The wiry tone of his restored circa-1859 Blüthner grand may... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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The Zehetmair Quartet's coupling focuses the music's alternating wildness and fragility with altogether unique perception. Theirs is an agitated, combustible and loving view of Schumann, a credible... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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if you want the living definition of virtuoso pedalling, listen to Andras Schiff in the 'Aria' movement of Schumann's F sharp minor Sonata...It's the most impressive realisation of Schumann's... —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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There are many versions of the Beethoven to choose from, yet this performance stands tall among them, an interpretation that balances introspection and drama, wisdom and freshness. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Chamber
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It's rare to come across truly revelatory performances of such oft-recorded repertory, but that's what the Zehetmair Quartet have given us here. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Liszt is immaculately controlled, each of the nine pieces vividly characterised. His use of pedal is surprising, and his sound is wonderfully clean and precise. His effects are fastidiously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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a typically stimulating and warmly engineered collection of works. They open with a probing account of Beethoven's last String Quartet...the Scherzo and Finale are projected with great exuberance...The... —
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Várjon moves swiftly between numbers, joining the puzzle-pieces without ever giving us the complete picture…but there’s no doubt that [his] connecting intelligence makes each set as a whole... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Recording of the Month
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