Recordings
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Paganini in A minor Op.35
Sonata in F minor Op.5
Alpha Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2019
REVIEWS:
Gramophone – Editors Choice
“Perhaps the highest praise is that, far from being the arduous progress through an obstacle course that the Variations often seem, this performance is a seamless traversal of variegated terrain, effortlessly accomplished, emerging finally as a showcase for artistic finesse rather than technical display.”
BBC Music Magazine:
4*/4*
“a performance that balances dazzling virtuosity with exquisite delicacy.”
PADEREWSKI + GODOWSKI
Paderewski Variations and Fugue on an original theme in E flat minor Op. 23
Nocturne in B flat major, Op.16 No.4
Godowski Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Johann Strauss No. 1 Künstlerleben
Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 2019
Pianiste (FR) “Choix”
Diapason d’Or
REVIEWS:
Gramophone, October 2019
“I love the sense of exultation – pianistic and musical – that he brings to the performance.”
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Estampes
Études – Livre II
Images – Livre I
L’isle joyeuse
Alpha 404 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2018
Diapason d’Or of the Year
DEBUSSY is a re-issue of the 2013 release
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No.2
Recorded live in Tokyo on 20 May 2009
NHK Symphony Orchestra
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
Nelson Goerner, piano
Alpha 395 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2018
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Nocturnes
Alpha 359 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2017
Choc de Classica
Diapason d’Or
BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice
REVIEWS:
BBC Music Magazine 5* / 5*
“Goerner’s Chopin was special right from the start of his career, but it has matured into something remarkable now.”
Telerama 4*
“…..le jeu lyrique et raffiné de l’Argentin Nelson Goerner…..Un double album aussi poétique et lumineux qu’une nuit de pleine lune.”
Ritmo 5*
“La fluidez con la que desempeña las bases armónicas de los acompañamientos arpegiados contrasta con el excelente sentido expresivo con el que maneja una hermosa línea de canto, completada con leves fluctuaciones y una gran riqueza de articulación en las ornamentaciones que, perfectamente integradas, obtienen su verdadero valor como elemento intensificador.”
Cadences
“Quel artiste phénoménal ! Chacune des réalisations de Nelson Goerner est presque immanquablement à marquer d’une pierre blanche. […] Le pianiste est, une nouvelle fois, souverain : toucher protéiforme capable de toutes les nuances, superbe éventail de couleurs qui permet naturellement de varier les climats à l’infini, lignes raffinées tour à tour lyriques et pudiques, tout est réuni pour faire ce disque de référence.”
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Violin Sonata No.1 in A Major, Op.13
Violin Sonata No.2 in E minor, Op.108
CÉSAR FRANCK
Violin Sonata A Major, FWV 8
Tedi Papavrami, violin
Nelson Goerner, piano
Alpha 271 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2016 & 2017
REVIEWS:
BBC Music Magazine 4*
“this is a performance of subtlety and confidence.”
Guardian 4*
“Pianist Nelson Goerner and violinist Tedi Papavrami clinch the muscular, urgent nature of the music as well as its sensitivity and flux; the rigour and classicism as well as the whimsy.”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata No.29 ‘Hammerklavier’
Bagatelles Op.126
Alpha 239 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2015
Choc de Classica
Pianist (UK) Editor’s Choice
REVIEWS:
Choc de Classica
“À n’en pas douter, voici un disque qui fera date.”
Diapason 5*
“Nelson Goerner domine son sujet, et de quelle manière !”
Gramophone Editor’s Choice (October 2016)
“Phrases are imbued with life and meaning [……] Savour the riches!”
Resmusica
“Voici une « Hammerklavier » idéale, comme on n’en avait plus connues au disque depuis belle lurette, sans doute l’une des versions majeures toutes époques confondues au sein d’une discographie pourtant aussi pléthorique que relevée.”
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44
Berceuse in D flat major Op.57
Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
Préludes Op.28
Alpha 224 ℗ & © Alpha Classics/Outhere Music France, 2015
REVIEWS:
BBC Music Magazine, 5*
“This Argentinian pianist possesses artistry of a very high order… Goerner purveys poetry as natural as breathing.”
Diapason d’Or
“Coloriste sophistiqué, virtuose cérébral, Nelson Goerner met pourtant à nu les failles, les flottements, les foudres des passions dans le labyrinthe de Chopin”
Choc de Classica
“La Berceuse joue de sa forme libre, d’une irrégularité tout aussi rêveuse. Ses ornements possèdent juste ce qu’il faut de capricieux, d’esprit de la boite à musique avec la légèreté valsante d’harmonies si dissonantes.”
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Kreisleriana, Op.16
Symphonic Studies, Op.13
Toccata, Op.7
ZZT 352 ℗ & © Zig-Zag Territories, 2014
BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month
REVIEWS:
BBC Music Magazine: Recording of the month (March 2015)
“Here is yet another account of the overplayed, over-recorded Schumann Etudes Symphoniques– but this one is seriously excellent…”
Pianist
“Stunning Schumann playing from Nelson Goerner. His Kreisleriana is among the finest ever recorded, and the Symphonic Studies – with the posthumous studies inserted organically – also receive a sovereign interpretation. One of the finest Schumann releases this year.”
Fanfare March
“It took me no longer than a minute to realize, upon hearing the opening strains of this recording, that I was in the presence of a very great pianist indeed. Such breathtaking musicianship, wed to a huge heart and a humanitarian spirit, is not something that crosses one’s path every day. To say the experience was humbling is an understatement.. “
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Estampes
Etudes Book II
Images Book I
L’isle joyeuse
ZZT 326 ℗ & © Zig-Zag Territories, 2013
REVIEWS:
Diapason de l’Or de l’Année
“un poète doublé d’un orfèvre”
Le Soir
“On retrouve ici condensé ce qui nous séduit depuis longtemps chez ce musicien intègre : une densité, une culture du son et une énergie qui traduisent toutes une forme d’urgence et de nécessité à aller au fond des œuvres.”
Klara’s 10
Luister 10
ffff Télérama
**** de Classica
IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat
Sinfonia Varsovia
Nelson Goerner, piano
Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor
released by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2015
JÓZEF NOWAKOWSKI
Piano Quintet in E-flat major
JÓZEF KROGULSKI
Piano Octet in D minor
Performers: Nelson Goerner, Lena Neudauer, Erzhan Kulibaev, Katarzyna Budnik-Gałazka, Marcin Zdunik, Sławomir Rozlach, Jan Krzeszowiec, Radosław Soroka
released by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2015
REVIEWS
Gramophone: “This superbly recorded disc is the most enjoyable chamber music disc – and the most interesting discovery – to come my way for some time.”
Musicweb International: Recording of the Month, April 2017
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Nocturnes No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48
Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
Nocturnes No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47
Nocturnes No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27
Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
released by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2006
Awarded a Diapason d’Or
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Fantasy on Polish Airs for piano & orchestra in A major, Op. 13, CT. 41
Variations on ‘La ci darem’ from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, for piano & orchestra in B flat major, Op. 2
Rondo à la krakowiak for piano & orchestra in F major, Op. 14
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise for piano & orchestra, Op. 22
Mazurek Dabrowskiego (National Anthem, Poland)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen, conductor
Nelson Goerner, piano
released by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2008
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat Major
Nocturnes, Op. 62
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise for piano and orchestra, Op.22
Etudes, Op. 10
Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
Prelude for piano No.16 in G major
Prelude for piano No.24 in D minor
Live at Wigmore Hall 2009
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat Major, Op. 61
Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1
Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54
Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
EMI Debut CDZ5 69701-2, 1997
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 ‘Polonaise-fantaisie’
Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54
Warner Classics, 1997
Classica magazine, France(juillet-août 2018)
“Avec Nelson Goerner…tout est là !”
“With Nelson Goerner … everything is there!”
“Nelson Goerner, immense chopinien.”
“Nelson Goerner, immense interpreter of Chopin”
“La version reine de cette sonate…”
“The reigning version of this sonata …”