Presto Recordings of the Year, Tchaikovsky (composer)
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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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Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf
Dalene’s freshness, vitality and interpretative charisma [in the Tchaikovsky] swept me along…If anything, the Barber is finer still, perhaps the closest anyone has yet come (at least on disc)... — More…
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Record Review, 25th January 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Concerto Choice
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Découverte
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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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 Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedDenis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
An energetic reading, robust, demonstrative, flashy…Let us bow before the purely technical qualties of Matsuev, who swallows the deadliest features with speed and sometimes staggering accuracy. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Tchaikovsky & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos
RecommendedXiayin Wang (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
From the first bar, you know that this brilliant Chinese-American pianist is the business...she leads from the front throughout to exhilarating effect...If you do not have a recording of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Chopin Evocations
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano), with Sergei Babayan (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
In this work, Trifonov staves off potential sentimentality and produces – as usual – an exquisite tone…Some listeners will undoubtedly miss the epic nature of the original orchestration, but... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - instrumental (piano)
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