Hyperion
-
Tippett - The complete music for piano
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This splendid double album… assembles all Tippett's music for piano whether solo of with orchestra, in performances that impressively set new standards in these often challenging works. —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Instrumental Finalist
-
Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Concerto
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, Instrumental Choice
-
Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
-
-
Alina Ibragimova's… playing… forges a potent synthesis, uniting the steely, eyes-wide-open focus of Christian Tetzlaff (her one-time teacher) and the supple stylistic insights of a Rachel Podger.... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Collection Winner
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
-
-
Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 6 (Ian Bostridge)
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
On the plus side, there's [Bostridge's] customary detailed attention to text; he uses some idiosyncratic tonal colouring to paint in its meanings, but the approach is always intelligent. He... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
-
-
If there’s a better recording of the Second Concerto out there, I haven’t heard it. —
Awards:
-
The Times Records of the Year, 2020
-
-
There is a absolute 'rightness' to his playing. His technical fluency and the lightness with which he moves over the keyboard is a constant source of joy...This is an album to be savoured for... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Instrumental
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Instrumental Choice
-
-
Walton & Rubbra - Viola Concertos
RecommendedLawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
…Lawrence Power's… playing is stunningly precise, crisply articulated and beautifully projected, with no hint of the little scrambles and occasionally pinched tone that beset even quite famous... —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, November 2007, First Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Concerto
-
Building a Library, March 2023, Recommended Recording
-
-
Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
-
BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
-
-
the great interpreters of this music never confuse the melancholic with the sentimental. Stephen Hough is even more ‘objective’ than most while bringing pianistic poise to everything and breathing... —
Awards:
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
-
-
The Nash ensemble have a natural feeling for the music's ebb and flow, and while they're not afraid of big gestures and the bite of horsehair and rosin, they play beautifully as an ensemble...Together,... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2017
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
-
-
For connoisseurs of choral music this is an essential buy. Outstanding performances of two rarely heard 20th-century masterpieces. —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, March 2005, Also Recommended
-
Gramophone Awards, 1998, Recording of the Year
-
Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Choral
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
-
