Orchid Classics - up to 25% off selected titles
Until 2nd September, we are offering up to 25% off selected Orchid Classics titles on CD, Vinyl, & Downloads.
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Special offer. Beethoven/5 Vol. 5
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
[Shaw] has an assured control of expectation, and even when the music dissolves into something surprising, it seems, in retrospect, as if we have been expecting it all along. Overall, a memorable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven 5, Vol. 4
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
This is a fresh, original interpretation, built from the ground up with humility, love and integrity, borne of a richly cultivated musical imagination and a technique so complete that its exercise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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Throughout, Liu’s fingerwork is unfailing...and her balances are breathtaking, especially in passages featuring superimposed rhythms. Overall, a major appearance by a pianist who has remained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 1
Jonathan Biss (piano), David Afkham, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Biss’ assured command of the demanding keyboard-writing and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s bracing proficiency are well captured… I find much of Biss’ pearly, intimately scaled phrasing... —
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 3 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major; Timo Andres: 'the Blind Banister'
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pekka Kuusisto
Biss has so internalised Beethoven’s characteristic expression that I cannot think of another performance of this piece with every articulation and dynamic so accurately and naturally realised...Andres’s... —
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' & Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131
Sacconi Quartet (string quartet)
The players have a notable consistency of tone, perhaps partly thanks to the fact that the three higher instruments are all by the influential 20th-century Italian luthier from which the quartet... —
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 2
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber
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Their still youthful energy, allied with technical brilliance, brings excitement to the whirlwinds of turbulence and rapidly shifting emotions throughout, and makes for thrilling listening. —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3
Copenhagen Phil, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Latvian Radio Choir, Lan Shui
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Special offer. Ludwig van Beethoven: the Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Ariel Quartet (chamber ensemble)
In something of a golden age for string quartets, the Ariel are up there with the best in precision, polish and corporate virtuosity. The group have evidently pondered long and deeply before... —
