Hi Res Download, Prokofiev (composer)
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From first electrifying note-punch to last, with so much poetry and poignancy in between, this is a tour de force of pianism highlighting what seems more than ever like the great sonata sequence... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 8th February 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Instrumental
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Their music-making is uniquely bonded from the start, an easeful gliding into the simple language of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata (Weinberg's melodic uniqueness, too, in his Second Sonata)...All... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2010
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Building a Library, February 2010, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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This is certainly a golden age collection from Trifonov, and it’s admirable that these two discs are always more about the music than about him...If I were to choose a compendium of Russian... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Throughout, Bavouzet displays a light touch and laudable levels of physical stamina, with a firm grasp of the very different personalities of each piece. Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic perform... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Concerto
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Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Olli Mustonen (piano)
Isserlis and his long-term colleague Olli Mustonen make a compelling case for Kabalevsky’s Cello Sonata, finding such expressive drama that for once I was not distracted by the Sonata’s obvious... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 2nd February 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Hilary Hahn - Paris
RecommendedChausson, Rautavaara, Prokofiev
Hilary Hahn (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Hahn praises the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as one where ‘emotion is embraced rather than exaggerated’, and the disc is an embodiment of this crucial virtue...She admits [the Prokofiev... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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