SACD, Tchaikovsky (composer)
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
This is one of the best new Tchaikovsky Fifths I’ve heard for ages...even if this Fifth came with no coupling, I’d still recommend it. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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There's been critical acclaim for the previous TCHAIKOVSKY two volumes in this series, and Chauhan the latest one is well up there, with the opening string phrases of the Suite No. 2 lushly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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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: Orchestral Works
RecommendedThe Tempest, Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda, Overture and Polonaise From ‘Cherevichki’
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan
Alpesh Chauhan evidently has a tremendous flair for Tchaikovsky. Supported by stunningly responsive playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, his interpretations brilliantly project... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Prepare to be astonished. Even allowing for the huge technical standards taken for granted today, Ivan Bessonov’s verges on phenomenal. He draws a beautifully rounded sound from the Steinway... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios
RecommendedVadim Gluzman (violin), Johannes Moser (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Tchaikovsky disliked the trio as a genre but choosing it for his memorial to Nikolay Rubinstein solved his need for a work of major heft yet intimate reflection. What I like about this beautifully... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Orchestral Choice
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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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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vassily Sinaisky
Out of repertory that has been celebrated, picked over and just about played to death over the course of almost a century and a half, they create magic…of course, this could only be achieved... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Here’s an archetypal recital programme which every emerging violin virtuoso would dream of recording, though few recent contenders have done so with such unerring assurance and mastery as Johan... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Chamber Choice
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