EDVARD GRIEG / FRANZ LISZT / ANTON RUBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steven Isserlis: Forgotten Romance Steven Isserlis (cello) with Stephen Hough (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 18/Oct/1995 ] The English cellist Steven Isserlis has been a leading light on the international musical scene for more than three decades. "Steven Isserlis amazes in music whose tantalising combination of exquisite poetry and scintillating bravura he was born to... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / C.P.E. BACH
Haydn & CPE Bach: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis (cello), The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Isserlis's 1998 recording [of the Haydn] remains classy stuff, but this has superbly trumped it." Gramophone Disc of the Month Awards Issue 2017 |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first important American composer to fuse European classical piano music with American cultural influences, including folk music, the music of slaves, and Latin American dances. Although still revered for his... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Instrumental |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano music [2 CDs] Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure...Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Instrumental) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 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) |
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 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments musicaux Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] 'One is left wondering where, in the first quarter of the 21st century, one might turn for more idiomatic, more intelligent or more beautiful Rachmaninov-playing.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2022 |
SIR DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY
Piano Concerto in A major, Op 15 (with Mackenzie- Scottish Concerto) Steven Osborne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 19 / CD - released 30/Aug/2008 ] 'What a bonanza this Hyperion offering is! If you fancy piano concertos you'll find plenty in these two neglected specimens to challenge and enchant you' (Fanfare, USA) |
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 -... |
GABRIEL FAURE / FRANCIS POULENC / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
French Duets Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
Steven Wilson
The Future Bites [ Universal / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Steven Wilson's new album The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the Internet era. As well as being Wilson's phenomenal sixth album, The Future Bites is also an online portal to a world of high concept design custom... |
Steven Wilson
The Harmony Codex [ Virgin / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] The Harmony Codex - the seventh album by Steven Wilson - takes you on a trip. A genre-spanning collection that opens up like a musical puzzle box, it presents a series of endlessly beautiful vistas that roll out and shift in front of... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete opera) Veronica Villarroel; Elena Zaremba; Andrea Bocelli; Carlo Guelfi / Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 27/May/2004 ] "Lay misconceptions aside: this version of a popular favourite challenges the best" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
Steven Wilson
Last Day Of June: Original Game Soundtrack (Gatefold LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Last Day of June is an adventure puzzle video game in third-person perspective. The soundtrack to Last Day Of June is based on existing music originally recorded and issued either on Steven Wilson's albums under his own name or as his project Bass... |
Steven Wilson
4 1/2 [ Kscope CD / CD - released 22/Jan/2016 ] Four-time Grammy nominee, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Steven Wilson follows up on his acclaimed 'Hand.Cannot.Erase.' with the new interim album '4 ½'. |
Steven Wilson
Grace for Drowning (Vinyl) [ Kscope / 2 LP - released 30/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition double LP vinyl issue in gatefold cover. Steven Wilson is producer, writer, performer, front man of British rock band Porcupine Tree. |
Steven Wilson
Transience [ Kscope / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] |
Steven A. Clark
The Lonely Roller [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] Whether it's someone searching or someone who doesn't want to be found, we can't help but be drawn to the drifters. Steven A. Clark is that next stranger to roll into town, a restless artist recasting R&B. He's a straight-talker in a genre filled... |
Steven A. Clark
Where Neon Goes To Die (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Living in a city is like having a love affair, and like any love affair, the passion for a city can produce monumental music. On Steven A. Clark's second LP, Where Neon Goes to Die, the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter follows in the footsteps... |