Recordings
He has made over 50 CDs, one of his most notable being a set of the four Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, recorded during live performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the baton of then music director Andrew Litton, which have been compared to the recordings by the composer himself. These recordings won him his seventh Gramophone Award as well as the Classical BRIT Critics Award.
His recording of the five Saint-Saëns concertos won the Gramophone Record of the Year in 2001, and was later voted the Gold Disc, "winner of winners" in a poll commemorating 30 years of the award.
His recording of the Complete Chopin Waltzes won the Diapason d'Or de l’Année in 2011
His own compositions can be heard on a CD called Broken Branches from BIS Records and on the Prince Consort's CD Other Love Songs on LINN Records.
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