Hyperion
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Clearly working in absolute rapport with Mark Wigglesworth, they achieve together a lean, at times almost wiry sound...yet there is no lack of muscular force or orchestral power in the many... —
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All in all, this is a highly recommendable, varied selection from Bizet's under-valued oeuvre with few duds included, and played by a master stylist. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Disc of the month
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They produce an orchestral range of colour, and there seems to be an eternity of space and time for Messaien's music to vibrate, with its whiffs of incense and flutterings of birdsong. Yet this... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 33 - Scharwenka
Seta Tanyel (piano)
Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR, Tadeusz Strugala
Seta Tanyel’s outstanding performances are suffused with the very epitome of the romantic soul —
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Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... —
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it is difficult to image this wonderful score more exquisitely played or radiantly engineered. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
a sophisticated, entertaining Piano Concerto that avoids pastiche yet cleverly evokes lost musical words. […] It all leads to an exhilarating finale, a tarantella appassionata which sends the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th March 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Purchase product
Vinyl Record
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Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos
Simon Callaghan (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrėnas
Is the result structurally convincing? Not entirely. Does it entertain? Absolutely, especially when Callaghan and the orchestra join forces with such obvious enjoyment and glee. All in all,... —
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York Bowen - Complete Works for Viola & Piano
Lawrence Power (viola) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Philip Dukes, James Boyd & Scott Dickinson (violas)
Following his successful recording of Bowen' Concerto, Lawrence Power turns to this repertoire with similar technical ease, and persuasively idiomatic tempo inflections and portamenti (slides). —
