Harmonia Mundi
-
This disc serves to remind us how much marvellous music Beethoven wrote where there isn’t a scowl in sight…Throughout, Paul Lewis plays with the most natural, relaxed but concentrated enjoyment,... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 10th July 2020
-
Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Instrumental Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
-
-
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
-
-
As the young man’s love turns from joy to frustration and finally despair Prégardien seems to diagnose schizophrenia with the voice bullishly confident and then almost hollowed out and drained... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
-
Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
-
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Song
-
-
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Count), Véronique Gens (Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro he adds something of his own. First of all he offers an orchestral balance quite unlike... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2004, Recording of the Year
-
Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Opera
-
Grammy Awards, 47th Awards (2004), Best Opera Recording
-
Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos
RecommendedCadenzas by Andreas Staier
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
remarkably smooth and sweet toned playing … the ‘Turkish’ episode…is splendidly done, its snarling crescendos well-handled by Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, and the percussive bow-slapping... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 28th October 2016
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
-
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Concerto
-
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Concerto
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Mozart: Sonatas For Fortepiano & Violin, Vol. 4
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
As early reviews pointed out, these sonatas are true democratic duos. One of the many delights here is the instinctive ease with which the players slip from protagonist to accompanist, and back... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
-
-
Four Pieces - Four Pianos
RecommendedSchubert, Chopin, Liszt, Stravinsky
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
They are all works requiring formidable technical ability, and pianist Alexander Melnikov brings clarity of touch and virtuoso flair to them all, transferring as if effortlessly from instrument... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
-
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
-
-
CPE Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Markus Eiche (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
a fine reconstruction of the second half of a concert [CPE Bach] conducted in Hamburg on Palm Sunday, 1786. So vivacious is the choral singing and orchestral playing under Hans-Chrisoph Rademann... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2014
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Vocal
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Schubert: Octet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn), James Munro (double bass)
There is much to admire here: some exquisitely wistful clarinet phrasing from Coppola, and a frightening fierceness in the sudden outburst that heralds the finale, where Schubert seems momentarily... —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
-
The Times Records of the Year, 2018
-
-
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 459 & 488
Freiburger Barockorchester, Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano/conductor)
From the very first notes, it’s clear this latest Mozart recording from Bezuidenhout is something special – from the buoyant strings to the delightful ping of the fortepiano, based on an 1805... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
-
