Blu-Ray Video, Accentus Music (label)
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2
Mao Fujita (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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As recorded in Leipzig's handsome new(ish) Gewandhaus Hall, the sound is a feast in its own right - a lovely balance of clarity, spaciousness, and glowing warmth. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Memorial Concert for Claudio Abbado
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Faust (violin)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Claudio Abbado
a sombre and moving document...the concert itself begins with the first movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony performed without a conductor, the empty podium standing as a conspicuous symbol... — More…
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Mendelssohn & Beethoven: Violin Concertos
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Znaider’s sweet, richly-coloured tone and painstaking commitment to these two much-played works shines through every bar…with gorgeous, burnished accompaniment from the Gewandhaus players — More…
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The Nobel Prize Concert 2010
Joshua Bell (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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Martha Argerich & Mischa Maisky
Martha Argerich (piano) & Mischa Maisky (violoncello)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Neeme Järvi
There's plenty of contrast [in the Shchedrin]: the misalliance of the two soloists, who only really come together in the climbing apotheosis; the cello in extreme registers; the piano's toccata... — More…
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — More…
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
