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Blumenfeld’s Étude pour la main gauche seule takes its influence from Godowsky’s compositions for left hand. Gugnin’s masterful fluidity in the scurrying passages is impressive; so is the judicious... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel, Debussy & Massenet
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
[Bavouzet] turns in a performance of the Fantaisie that illuminates this uneven yet magical work like no other. As to the Ravel concertos, I have no hesitation in saying these are the greatest... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Award Winner
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Ravel: Concertos pour piano & Mélodies
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout
By any standards, this is the A Team, and they do not disappoint. Here is Ravel in all his passion and technical wizardry...[Tiberghien] finds any number of colours amid his faultless technical... — More…
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Record Review, 21st May 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Concerto
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The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Concept Album
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The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hamelin's original etudes...with their blend of tasteful lyricism and striking textures and harmonies, are as enjoyable as his homages...While brashly flaunting his influences (Gershwin, Poulenc,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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The outer movements are so deliciously light, like the most perfect soufflé, executed with disarming insouciance by pianist and orchestra alike...You could not wish for a more atmospheric account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Concept Album
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Ravel - Piano Concertos
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Zimerman's pianism is self-recommending.
His trills in the first movement of the G major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystalclear, never hectic, always stylish. For... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th-Century Concerto
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, May 2024, Recommended Recording (Ravel)
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Janáček: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
we have a fine interpreter of Janáček and a distinguished orchestra...Orchestral ensemble is good though not always the intonation. still, the remaining movements are more compelling, with vivid... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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