Building a Library, Romantic (era)
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Elgar: Violin Concerto RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Little and Davis steer a near-perfect path between the English stoicism and continental passion that lies at the heart of this glorious score. Positioned naturally against the orchestra, Little... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 50 – Tchaikovsky
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Both soloist and conductor seem committed to emphasising the architectural integrity of Tchaikovsky's musical thinking...Yet by keeping things moving and delivering performances that project... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Building a Library, November 2022, Also Recommended - 1st Concerto
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Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
These two like-minded musicians manage to bring to these much-recorded works not merely thrilling virtuosity and lyrical depth but a Mendelssohnian lightness of touch where needed...Litton,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, February 2014, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Krystian Zimerman plays Liszt
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian. — More…
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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Chopin - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
Martha Argerich's first commercially released recordings of the Chopin concertos were for DG; No 1 in 1968, No 2 in 1978. Here she revisits both concertos and offers an act of re-creative daring,... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2000, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Concerto
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Building a Library, September 2016, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2023, Recommended Recording
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Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos RecommendedRadu Lupu (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
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Building a Library, January 2004, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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James Ehnes plays Mendelssohn
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Octet, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Octet has rarely sounded more symphonic as Ehnes and his Seattle friends demonstrate all the energy and wit of chamber playing at its most dazzling. Ehnes gives an elegant, refined account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Elgar: Violin Concerto RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Zehetmair...is able to marry impassioned purpose with appreciation of Elgar's complexity...Mark Elder's direction is stunning...there's a warm glow about the Hallé sound that adds an extra strand... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Concerto
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Brahms: Double Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Aki Saulière (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) & Béatrice Muthelet (viola)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Myung-Whun Chung
The stellar young Capuçon brothers seem incapable of setting a foot wrong on disc and they put their considerable chamber-music experience to great use in Brahms's final orchestral work, with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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