Naxos
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Care for detail is apparent...[Alsop's] sense of line is at its most impressive in the way in which the slow movement is sustained and the unfolding of the joyous second theme in the finale...as... —
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Giltburg doesn’t deal in pianistic thunder but in long phrases and in unsignposted details of articulation, and in both concertos he and Petrenko generally draw out the contrasts and drama with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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The Alchemy of the Piano - A Film By Jan Schmidt-Garre With Francesco Piemontesi
Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano), Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Jean-Rodolohe Kars, Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Antonio Pappano (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Eldar Nebolsin, Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Benjamin Heisenberg, Marieke Schroeder, Erwin Stürzer
Overall, it is a film I would call interesting and intriguing rather than great or compelling. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner (ex aequo) - Video (Performance and Documentaries)
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Early 20th-century French eccentric Erik Satie's piano pieces are ubiquitous, as are Debussy's orchestrations of two of his famously lyrical "Gymnopèdies." This album includes the Debussy arrangements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 1999, Editor's Choice
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Szymanowski - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Ilya Kaler (violin)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Ilya Kaler is a near ideal interpreter of these works and the delightful Nocturne and Tarantella which serve as makeweight. His playing certainly has the requisite passion, but he also has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Hedlund plays with sweetness and passion, though occasionally seems a little careful in the technically challenging passages —
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Domenico Cimarosa: l'Italiana in Londra
Theo Lebow, Gordon Bintner, Bianca Tognocchi, Iurii Samoilov, Angela Vallone, Oper Frankfurt, Leo Hussain
Singing of character and liquidity comes from the sopranos Angela Vallone as Livia and Bianca Tognocchi as Madama Brillante… Hussain maintains a pacy momentum: the whole thing goes with a swing —
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All in all, we cannot but admire the quality of each individual musician and their seasoned ensemble. In an age when performances increasingly rely on gimmicks, this one by The Brahms Trio is... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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