Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Perahia is unrivalled in coaxing a subtle dialogue in the dances that resort to the artful pared-back minimalism of the two-part invention. There’s nowhere to hide and Perahia’s effortless variety... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Steeped in the French piano tradition and with formidable facility, Bertrand Chamayou is certainly not tripped up by the finger-bending virtuosity of Miroirs or Gaspard, while conveying the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Instrumental
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In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades
RecommendedSeong-Jin Cho (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
…his playing is unfailingly cultivated and his sound beautifully focused and poised.[Concerto in E minor]…Cho commands the work, and he leads the dance in the finale — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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spaciousness is [not] the most surprising aspect here…more challenging to many ears will be the steadiness of the E flat Impromptu and the liberally applied hesitations of the A flat. Allied... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th January 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Esfahani's contributions are the extraordinary range and delicacy of his touch and his scrupulous attention to matching phrasing. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Instrumental Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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This is not an interpretation that wants to grab you by the lapels…but rather one which by its natural ebb and flow aims to draw you stealthily into the music and have you breathe with it, so... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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[Rondeau's] performance of Le vertigo is a thing of pugilistic wonder, flouncing around like an operatic diva succumbing to a hissy fit…he cuts a virtuosic swathe through Royer’s Marche des... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - harpsichord (music up to and including 18th century)
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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