Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
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from notes by Bryce Morrison © 2004
extrait des notes rédigées par Bryce Morrison © 2004
Français: Isabelle Battioni
aus dem Begleittext von Bryce Morrison © 2004
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel
![]() Anatole Kitain (1903–1980) was an exact contemporary and fellow pupil of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev, where he studied, as did the slightly older Simon Barere, with Felix Blumenfeld. All three developed fabulous techniques and were romantic pianists ...» More |
![]() ‘Lovely playing which I enjoyed from first note to last for its poetry and passion as well as seemingly effortless keyboard fluency and command’ (Gram ... ‘The Scherzo is as light as gossamer and the finale has both a heroic sense of struggle and passages of the most delicate filigree. Demidenko keeps yo ...» More |
![]() ‘This is astonishing piano playing and Chopin interpretation, at its very best, fully measuresup to the greatness of these pieces. And to their freshn ... ‘In the use of words like sensational, extraordinary, phenomenal, etc., critics have to be sparing, at risk of their credibility. But these adjectives ...» More |
![]() Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. This monumental recording project—first instigated by t ...» More |
![]() ‘Listening to Joyce is strangely addictive. One cannot wait, as it were, to read the next chapter. She shares with Kreisler and Tauber the same unteac ... ‘The quality that comes across in these performances is the sheer joy of playing. Joyce possessed a formidable technique and an interpretative mind th ...» More |
![]() This double album draws together for the first time all the published 78-rpm recordings made by Brazilian Guiomar Novaes. She is better known today for her later recordings from the LP era, but these early miniatures, recorded between 1919 and 194 ...» More |
![]() Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge were amongst the earliest pianists to record for the US Victor label, both making most of their discs in the acoustic era before 1925. Samaroff was the greater virtuoso, as can be heard in her famous recording of W ...» More |
![]() 'This is a fine introduction to the piano playing of one of the great talents of the present age' (MusicWeb International)» More |
![]() ‘Well filled set and plenty to arrest the imagination’ (MusicWeb International)» More |