Naxos
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
RecommendedVladimir Horowitz (piano)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, November 2022, Also Recommended - Tchaikovsky
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Classical Album of the Year
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Since Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpudlians haven't disappointed in any instalment of their Shostakovich cycle so far, the chances were they would excel here. And they do. A special coup at... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Orchestral
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I hadn’t expected Howells’s piano music to occupy such different sound-worlds to his better-known works, the spare Satie-esque whimsy of Harlequin Dreaming and the Debussy-ish Phantasy and Summer... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Penderecki: Complete Music for String Quartet & String Trio
John Mills (violin), Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (viola), Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet
The ebb and flow of the confessional Quartet No. 3...is navigated with an assurance that speaks to their inside-out assimilation of all six scores. To have such a comprehensive programme vividly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Recommendedde Grandis, Ganassi, Romero, Servile, Vargas
Hungarian Radio Choir, Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Willi Humburg
Not everyone will approve, but there are ways in which this super-budget set of Il barbiere diSiviglia puts to shame just about every other version of the opera there has been. Those it may... —
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Building a Library, December 2001, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 & Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto
[Giltburg] delivers one of the most structurally lucid accounts of the Concerto that I’ve heard. Apart from his clear sense of direction…I also admire his capacity to create a sense of spontaneity... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra —
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Piano Concerto No. 2
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The English Song Series Volume 14 - Vaughan Williams 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Naxos' English Song Series comes up trumps again - here Roderick Williams delivers sensitive performances of the two song-cycles Songs of Travel and The House of Life. An especial highlight... —
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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New. Brass For Uncommon Times
Velvet Brown, Daniel Prim, Fran Vielma, Hiram Diaz, Brass For Uncommon Times, Brian Kaufman
