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Stravinsky
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Daniil Trifonov - Silver Age
RecommendedScriabin - Stravinsky - Prokofiev
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
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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Stravinsky: Music for Solo Piano and Piano and Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton
All are superbly crisp and clean, and David Atherton has his Hong Kong orchestra on its toes. Both the Concerto and the Capriccio demonstrate extra energy just when interest might be in danger... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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The Petrushka movements...have a unique fizz and excitement and quite the most orchestral range of colour I've heard...Her poise in the two Scarlatti sonatas is admirable, the textures beautifully... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Maurizio Pollini: 20th Century
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th December 2011
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Special offer. Maurizio Pollini plays Prokofiev, Boulez, Webern and Stravinsky
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
Perfection needs to be pursued so that you can forget about it. Pollini's Petrushka movements are almost inhumanly accurate and fast; but what comes across is an exhilarating sense of abandon,... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — More…
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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