Steven Osborne – Debussy: Études & Pour le piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:48 minutes | 2,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Debussy may have stipulated ‘mains formidables’ as the requirement for pianists tackling his Études, but they need a lot more besides. It’s clear from these magisterial performances that Steven Osborne’s ‘formidable hands’ are always at the service of a profound musical intelligence.
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Steven Osborne – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 90, 101 & 106 “Hammerklavier” (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Steven Osborne has repeatedly proved himself a Beethovenian of profound insight. In these three late sonatas—including the monumental ‘Hammerklavier’—he gives performances of stunning impact and lasting fulfilment.
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Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov – Stravinsky: Complete music for piano & orchestra (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:15 minutes | 916 MB | Genre: Classical
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A new album from the Gramophone Award-winning team of Steven Osborne, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. Here they present Stravinsky’s complete music for piano and orchestra as a rare complete set, plus the Concerto in D for string orchestra. The taut rhythmic brilliance of this music is perfectly suited to the particular artistry of these performers. Volkov’s mastery of Stravinsky’s neo-classical idiom is clear from the ecstatic critical response to his recordings of many of the composer’s orchestral works.
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Steven Osborne – Rachmaninov: Études-tableaux (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:09 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Classical
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The universal critical plaudits which greeted Steven Osborne’s recording of the Rachmaninov Preludes are certain to be repeated even more enthusiastically on the release of this version of the wonderful Études-tableaux.
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Steven Osborne – Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:28 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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The challenges of Prokofiev’s ‘War Sonatas’ trilogy may be fearsome, but Steven Osborne is one of those rare musicians who can bring light and clarity (as well as phenomenal reserves of power and concentration) to bear on some of the most ferociously volatile and brilliant piano music written in the twentieth century.
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Steven Osborne – Debussy: Piano Music (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Steven Osborne’s unerring command of the elusive ambiguities of Debussy’s piano-writing has already been amply confirmed by his earlier recording of the two books of Préludes; these lustrous new accounts of the Images, Estampes and Children’s Corner are every bit their equal.
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Steven Osborne – Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 & Moments musicaux (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:36 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘Rachmaninov fans won’t want to miss this’ was Gramophone’s verdict on Steven Osborne’s recording of the Études-tableaux, and this thrilling new release is an equally essential acquisition. Osborne proves a predictably fine exponent of the Faustian Piano Sonata No 1 and is no less compelling in the selection of shorter works which completes the album.
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Steven Osborne – French Duets – Fauré: Dolly Suite; Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc etc. (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye and Fauré’s Dolly are two of the highlights in this bewitching programme of music often associated with childhood—works which amply reward the care lavished on them by Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne in these exquisite accounts.
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Steven Osborne – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110 & 111 (2019)
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Beethoven’s three final sonatas constitute one of music’s great spiritual journeys, one which only a very few pianists are qualified to undertake. Steven Osborne, whose Beethoven has been widely acclaimed, need fear no comparisons.
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Steven Osborne; Ludovic Morlot: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (2016)
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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 complementing these wonderful works.
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Steven Osborne – Medtner & Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:59 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
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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 he presents an impressive selection from two masters who lived and worked contemporaneously. Both were renowned concert pianists, and both wrote superbly for their instrument. Yet their reputations could not be more divergent. Rachmaninov utterly loved; Medtner only now becoming rehabilitated.
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Steven Osborne – Debussy: Early and late piano pieces (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:53 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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A programme which bridges Debussy’s first work for piano (the Danse bohémienne, from 1880) and his last (Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon, from 1917). Steven Osborne is equally responsive to the very different musical moods of both.
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Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne – Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:43 minutes | 979 MB | Genre: Classical
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Hyperion is delighted to present a special collaboration already an extraordinary force on the concert platform in its first appearance on record. Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne are musicians of searing, uncompromising intelligence and intense feeling. In his works for the violin, Prokofiev produced some of his most personal and expressive music. Both of his Violin Sonatas were written for David Oistrakh. The first was begun against the backdrop of Stalin’s Great Terror, and one senses that he drew his inspiration from the uncharacteristically dark wells of fear, despair and bereavement which were the lot of Prokofiev and his contemporaries. The Violin Sonata No.2 is of a very different character generally sunny and carefree, though still with occasional fleeting shadows. In its original form it was a Flute Sonata, Op 94, which Prokofiev had completed in 1943. At David Oistrakh’s suggestion and with his assistance, Prokofiev transcribed the work.
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Franz Schubert – Impromptus, Piano pieces & Variations – Steven Osborne (2015)
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Recorded: December 2014, Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom
Steven Osborne shines in lyrical new performances of seven of Schubert’s greatest late works for piano, plus the extended Hüttenbrenner Variations of 1817.
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