Hi Res Download, Chopin (composer)
-
Some extremely daring speeds guarantee excitement, pushing the technical limits in what are, of course, despite their generic title (Études , or Studies), so much more than technical exercises,... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2024
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Recording of the Month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Piano
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
CD
Original price (HK$116.83) Reduced price HK$105.14Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Chopin: Cello Sonata & Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The solemn Arpeggione is prefigured here by Isserlis’s arrangement of Chopin’s achingly beautiful ‘Nie ma czego trzeba’. Again in this Sonata, the duo offer graceful transparency, lithe refinement... — More…
Awards:
-
Record Review, 29th September 2018, Recording of the Week
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Recording of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
-
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Chamber
CD
Original price (HK$123.57) Reduced price HK$61.78Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
This is more than a flawless recital played with technical bravura and a born soloist’s confidence. Abduraimov is a major pianist, worth talking about in the same breath as the international... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2021
-
Record Review, 23rd January 2021, Record of the Week
-
Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
CD
HK$130.31Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
An ideal realisation of these exquisite dances, the likes of which I never dreamt of hearing…Liszt said it: ‘A wind plays in the leaves, life unfolds and develops beneath them, but the tree... — More…
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Piano
-
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Instrumental
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016, Editor's Choice
CD
Original price (HK$123.57) Reduced price HK$61.78Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
CD
Original price (HK$123.57) Reduced price HK$61.78Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
the great interpreters of this music never confuse the melancholic with the sentimental. Stephen Hough is even more ‘objective’ than most while bringing pianistic poise to everything and breathing... — More…
Awards:
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
2 CDs
Original price (HK$238.16) Reduced price HK$95.26Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
2 CDs
Original price (HK$173.00) Reduced price HK$155.70Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Four Pieces - Four Pianos
RecommendedSchubert, Chopin, Liszt, Stravinsky
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
They are all works requiring formidable technical ability, and pianist Alexander Melnikov brings clarity of touch and virtuoso flair to them all, transferring as if effortlessly from instrument... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
-
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
CD
HK$139.30Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Right from the first bars of the first piece, Op. 9 No. 1, it’s clear that each note has been thought about – and each note’s place in the bigger musical picture…Goerner’s Chopin was special... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Instrumental Choice
2 CDs
Original price (HK$134.80) Reduced price HK$67.40Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Nothing in the entire literature of Etudes surpasses Chopin’s Op. 25, and the best interpreters not only clear all the technical hurdles but project the 12 pieces as a progressive sequence.... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Piano
-
Opus Klassik, 2022, Instrumentalist of the Year
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Piano
CD
HK$125.82Downloads
Audio formats guide -
