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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Études & Pour le piano Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] "Time and again there were details that tickled the ear with their freshness, revealing as if for the first time the anarchic brilliance of Debussy's vision." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Piano |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Four Impromptus D935 / Three piano pieces D946 / etc Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Osborne takes a wonderfully clear-sighted, analytical approach which gives the seven late works, as well as the early, often playful variations, great radiance and lyricism." (The Guardian) |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Harmonies poetiques et religieuses Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] "Poetic, radiant playing that makes this one of the finest Liszt recordings ever made" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2004) |
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NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN
Kapustin: Piano Music: Vol 1 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Jun/2000 ] 'Engaging, often witty, jazz-inspired works that are highly recommended, especially to lovers of Gershwin or Billy Mayerl' - Gramophone |
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MEDTNER / RACHMANINOV
Medtner / Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Steven Osborne has become increasingly admired for his performances and recordings of Russian Romantic piano music, playing with a remarkable level of authority and a rare combination of technical ease, tonal lustre and idiomatic identification. Here... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano sonatas: 'Moonlight', 'Pathetique' & 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] 'The Pathetique and Waldstein sonatas receive equally refreshing and sensitive accounts. And all are recorded with Hyperion's usual finesse' (The Times) |
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) [with piano pieces by Prokofiev] Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Instrumental |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Instrumental - 'Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure' (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice) |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "There are so many towering performances of these harrowing works…but I believe Steven Osborne caps them all…This is legendary stuff." BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental |
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MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL de FALLA
Ravel: Piano Concertos / Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain Steven Osborne (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2017 ] Steven Osborne's solo Ravel for Hyperion has invited comparisons with the distinguished interpretations of the past; this new recording of the concertos is certain to win similar plaudits. The Falla is a generous and appropriate coupling, perfectly... |
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MESSIAEN
Turangalîla-Symphonie Steven Osborne (piano) / Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'The Messiaen Monster', ridiculed by critics at its premiere-in the best tradition of works of genius-is now 'established as one of the most astonishing classics of the twentieth century', as Nigel Simeone writes in the booklet of this brilliant new... |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen and other piano music Steven Osborne (piano I) Martin Roscoe (piano II) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] Steven Osborne has already made his name as an outstanding interpreter of Messiaen with his ecstatic recording of the Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus (Hyperion, CDA67351/2), described by Gramophone as 'one of Hyperion's finest piano recordings -... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The complete works for piano and orchestra (Incls Piano Concerto in D major) Steven Osborne (piano) with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009: Concerto - 'Steven Osborne yields nothing to the great Sviatoslav Richter in the punchiness and fine-tuned filigree of his playing. No skating over the surface here, with Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO adept at teasing out... |
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TIPPETT
Complete Music for Piano Steven Osborne (piano) with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Concerto 'The Scottish pianist demonstrates the driving energy behind Tippett's solo piano music. The four sonatas dance nimbly over the keys … Nothing beats the hungry Vivace of the Piano Concerto,... |
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MARIANNA AUENBRUGGER / AMY BEACH / TERESA CARREÑO / CÉCILE CHAMINADE / RAIE DA COSTA / MARIANNE VON MARTINEZ / FANNY MENDELSSOHN / SOPHIE MENTER
Women and the Piano Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Oct/2026 ] 'During my whole pianistic education, no teacher ever suggested I learn a piece by a female composer' So writes pianist and author Susan Tomes, who is setting out to redress the historical neglect of women composers and pianists. Her new album,... |
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GRANADOS / GURIDJ / TURINA / TOLDRA / MONTSALVATGE
Canciones Espanolas Sylvia Schwartz (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] The Nash Ensemble presents a programme of works written at the transit camp Theresienstadt by four Jewish composers who went on to be killed at Auschwitz, their music forgotten. |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Phantasy Piano Quartet & Sonatas the Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "The sonata receives a wonderfully searching performance from Paul Watkins and Ian Brown...[in the Violin Sonata] the earlier lyricism is there, but as just one part of an expressive web. Thorsen and Brown catch those moodswings perfectly" Guardian |
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ANTONIN DVORAK / FLORENCE PRICE
Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] "With recorded sound that's at once detailed and atmospheric, this new Hyperion release is pure pleasure in every respect." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 - Chamber |
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EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber / GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber |
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ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "...They allow every passionate detail to come across yet preserve a sense of nobility and innate grace that I always associate with Dohnányi." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Chamber |