Gramophone Awards, Brahms (composer)
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There’s a marble-statue nobility to his playing, a sense of his powerful technique being harnessed to expression, and a seriousness-of-purpose…To end, we hear three of Brahms’s Intermezzos:... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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He is tender in op. 118/2 and powerful on op. 118/3. Op. 116/4 sings, and op. 117/2 is delicate, with a lovely touch. In several of these works—op. 116/5 and 6, and op. 117/1, for example—Brahms’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Volodos, rather like the music, can seem to inhabit a world of his own – removed, remote, yet in steely control of the expression of that remoteness…Volodos is a master of soft and silken tone... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Piano
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Brahms's three piano quartets sometimes exhibit this tendency but in performances as fine as these it is triumphantly surmounted with a combination of brisk speeds and an extraordinary collective... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Chamber Choice
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His long experience with Bach's keyboard works gives him a natural point of entry to the Variations on a Theme of Handel, which is taken at quite fast tempos...Yet Perahia never draws attention... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Instrumental
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Freire's sound has always been a thing of wonder: even at full volume and full tilt there's no hint of percussiveness in his tone...Highlights are many - the regret-filled duet of the middle... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Brahms: The Piano Concertos - Deluxe digital version RecommendedNelson Freire (piano)
Gewandhaus Orchester, Riccardo Chailly
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Concerto
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This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Fritz Kreisler: The Charming Maverick
RecommendedFritz Kreisler (violin), Thomas Petre (violins), William Primrose (viola), Laurie Kennedy (cello), with Franz Rupp (piano), with Michael Raucheisen (piano), with Arpád Sándor (piano)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Landon Ronald,...
Listening to these recordings today you can hear his remarkable sound – characterised by an almost constant, but varied vibrato. He tended to avoid using his fourth finger in order to maintain... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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