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It’s ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel’s expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form’s musical language. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Stephen Fitzpatrick (harp)
Cecilia Zilliacus is more than up to the challenge. Her lightly-worn virtuosity and crystalline phrasing ensures nothing feels forced in the First Sonata...With everything captured in superb... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Chamber Choice
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas & Trio
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Roland Pöntinen (piano), Torleif Thedéen (cello)
…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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[the Nielsen] merits the supreme artistry that Shraon Bezaly brings to it, both in terms of deft, discerningly harnessed virtuosity and in her supple, sinuous shaping of the music. Neeme Jarvi... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)
The duo fill their phrasing, rhythm and sense of momentum with bracing fresh air, bringing maximum exhilaration to a work that too often can seem to lack it. Poltéra’s tone leaps and glows –... — More…
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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, James Gaffigan
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Gerstein's interpretation is his ability to make the piano writing sound much lighter and more transparent than usual...Instead of the conventional barnstorming... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Concerto Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Haochen Zhang (piano)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
Zhang possesses a clarity of finger and thought that are highly impressive. Passages that are often sounded with an all-purpose pyrotechnical pizzazz here possess a transparent sparkle, refreshingly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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