Chamber, Duos, Piano Duos, Schubert (composer)
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The press-release quotes Tharaud as saying the album was 'made for the sheer pleasure of it'. This is tangibly translated in much of the playing, across a programme that ranges from Bach to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Piano Duos
RecommendedMozart, Schubert & Stravinsky
Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim (piano duo)
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompts several adjectives: brutal, revolutionary, relentless, terrifying...But elegant? Urbane, seductive, sensuous? This astonishing performance is all that and... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2014
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The Lewis-Osborne duo establishes a slyly (or should that be shyly?) wistful mood in the Andante varie in B minor, revels in the bravura writing of the Variations in A flat...and transforms... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th November 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Instrumental
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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On paper it seems an unlikely pairing. On disc, however, it is something of a triumph, a recording that is far more than a mere souvenir d'occasion of a memorable night in Carnegie Hall. Intriguingly,... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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The pianism is exemplary. David Fray has probably never hit an ugly note, nor failed to produce textures of luminous clarity and seductive depth and colour...Beautiful, certainly, in its way;... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Abbado's is an outstanding set in every way. Rarely has he made recordings of the central Viennese classics which find him so naturally sunny and warm in his expression. The playing of the Chamber... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, April 2023, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 5
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Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor & other piano duets
RecommendedAndreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano Graf by Christopher Clarke)
Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov play all these pieces with admirable poetry and intimacy…this new recording has the advantage of being played on the type of instrument Schubert would have... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Schubert - Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
RecommendedJulia Fischer (violin/piano) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
They give a magnificent account of this inspired work [the F major Fantasy]...It's a challenging piece...yet Fischer and Helmchen present as fine as any account on disc...They are a marvellous... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2010
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