Alexander Melnikov
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One of Tharaud’s aims is to reveal repertoire which has been largely lost, and in this respect he is resoundingly successful...Everything here has charm, and radiates what should always be the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (Graff fortepiano)
Melnikov works wonders with his 1828 Graff piano, managing to make it less clattery and more piano-like than in most other fortepiano recordings. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Chamber Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
RecommendedAlexander Melnikov (harpsichord/fortepiano/tangent piano/piano)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Britten: Violin Concerto, Chamber Works RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša
Faust’s cadenza has real emotional involvement, and builds urgently towards the final Passacaglia, where conductor Jakub Hrůša leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a full-toned climax,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2024
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Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Works
RecommendedThe Three Sonatas
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Piano Trio Op. 36 (Symphony No. 2)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
There’s no question of a timid approach, and the clean timbre of the period instruments is echoed by the soloists, entering one by one. Especially fetching is the empathy between Faust and Queyras,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English Version)
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
It’s rounded, intensely vocal, intimate, incredibly sophisticated – not the usual, but very welcome, as if the whole thing were an ethereal fairytale...It’s your choice which language version... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th August 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Offer, Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach Céline Frisch (harpsichord/piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti
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Prepare to be spellbound…This does not sound like an old piano, merely a distinctive one in the hands of a truly remarkable player…It is not only the individual sounds that impress…but also... — More…
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Record Review, 30th June 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's 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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