Since you are interested in Pictures from an Exhibition (with works by Balakirev & Ravel), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CHOPIN
12 etudes, Op.10 / 12 etudes, Op.25 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] Ever since becoming the youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician award Freddy Kempf has been making waves in the world of music - not least in the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition where he shot to prominence when the jury and the... |
CHOPIN
Four Ballades / Grande Polonaise Polonaise-fantaisie / Fantaisie-impromptu Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] Freddy Kempf, recently named Young Artist of the Year |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Sonata No 2 / Etudes-tableaux Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2000 ] "All in all, this disc is a winner all the way." * * * * * 5 Stars - BBC Music Magazine (June 2000) |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 6 & 7 / Toccata in C major / etc Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] "A youthful virtuoso tackles Prokofiev head on and the results are thrilling." (Gramophone Awards Issue 2003) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas: Pathetique, Moonlight and Appassionata Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Kempf's insight into the character of each of these Olympian masterpieces is astonishing and is allied to formidable virtuosity and musicianship" (Sunday Telegraph). |
J.S. BACH
Plays Bach: Partitas 4 & 6 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "Freddy Kempf is a singularly expressive and emotional pianist, almost a fossil from the nineteenth century, or at least the early twentieth. He plays these works as Chopin probably played them, perhaps as the early Liszt played them. There is not... |
SCHUMANN
Scanes mignonnes sur quartre notes, Op.9 / Humoresque in B flat major, Op.20 / etc Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/1999 ] Freddy Kempf is one of the world’s finest and most sought-after young pianists. He was born in London in 1977 and came to national prominence in 1992 when he became the youngest winner in the history of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. |
LISZT
Etudes d'exacution transcendante Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] Critic's Choice American Record Guide 2001 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "[In the G minor concerto] Kempf is less flamboyant than some, perhaps seeking to make musical sense of the argument. The second movement is as lithe and scintillating as one might wish." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2010 |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50 / Trio alagiaque No.1 in G minor Kempf Trio (Freddy Kempf, piano; Pierre Bensaid, violin; Alexander Chaushian, cello) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "The recording is very well balanced...the effect overall is convincingly realistic, and the acoustic seems equally suitable for both works." (Gramophone July 2003) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 (with Schnittke - Piano Trio) Kempf Trio (Freddy Kempf, piano; Pierre Bensaid, violin; Alexander Chaushian, cello) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Anyone who doubts the spiritual desolation wrought by Soviet communism need only listen to this disc...The Shostakovich is impressively intense" The Telegraph, 12th February 2010 *** |