Building a Library, Classical (era)
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This recording captures all the fiery wit of orchestral-soloist banter. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Concerto Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - A Major Concerto
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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Mozart - The Great Piano Concertos, Volume 1 RecommendedAlfred Brendel (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, March 2013, CD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
Thi is a really fine performance [of K503], with impeccably judged tempos in all three movements, and great playing from the Orchestra Mozart...[in the D minor Concerto] Argerich's playing is... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building A Library, January 2022, Recommended Recording - K466
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Mozart & Haydn - Complete Concerto Recordings (1933-1947)
RecommendedEdwin Fischer (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Unnamed Orchestra, Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Edwin Fischer (conducted from piano), John Barbirolli, Lawrance Collingwood, Josef Krips
...you will hear a delectably light-fingered virtuosity...combined with a poetic commitment rare in today's chaotic musical marketplace...APR's transfers are admirable and all three discs are... — More…
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Building A Library, January 2022, Also Recommended - K466
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Haydn: Keyboard Concertos No. 3, 4 and 11
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Like Emanuel Ax on Sony, Leif Ove Andsnes confines himself to the three concertos that have been fully authenticated.
Had the works generally known as 'the Haydn piano concertos' been these... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Concerto
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More than half a century separates the earliest and the latest of the works here. The C major Trio Sonata was one of Bach's earliest compositions, written at the age of 17 more or less under... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2005, Highly Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedYefim Bronfman (piano)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman
…bold, intelligent readings, cooler than some but none the worse for that, and superbly engineered under the watchful eye of recording producer Chris Hazell. They give you Beethoven shorn of... — More…
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Building a Library, August 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Piano Concerto Nos. 22 & 27
RecommendedAlfred Brendel (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Building a Library, May 2002, First Choice
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