Hyperion Knight PETROUCHKA – Wilson Audio W-8313 - TAS

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Sep 6, 2009 Sold Date

Aug 30, 2009 Start Date

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AWESOME:
Hyperion Knight piano –
PETROUCHKA –
Wilson Audio W-8313 -
Recommended by TAS

In audiophile circles, this LP has the reputation of being one of the most outlandish piano records ever recorded.

Yes, it features Hyperion Knight playing Stravinsky’s PETROUCHKA and Beethoven’s WALDSTEIN, but on a piano few of us have ever heard: a Sheldon Smith 9ft. Grand.

What’s unique about it, is that its lower registers are profoundly more rich and robust versus any other standard and the higher registers are designed to be less dampened than what we’re accustomed to. The end result in the listening is extraordinary and among the finest piano work you will ever hear.

Recording maestro David Wilson captured the playing within the workshop where the piano was made, and in a fashion that has Mr. Knight sitting at his stool playing right in your listening room. (Trust me, it does not fail at this if your system can muster the sonic courage.)

An awesome listening experience, a long standing TAS favorite, here in very fine shape: Cover crisp, like new; record within is near mint.

An LP that is entirely worthy of the finest vinyl library, eager for the best hi-fi equipment you can throw at it. Extraordinary in its ability to construct a “sonic picture.”

For other fine records, TAS picks and hard-to-finds, please see my complete list of offerings here on eBay.

Shipping and handling is $5 for up to 5 LPs shipped within the States. Internationally, $15 via airmail for the first LP, $3 each thereafter. (Canada is half that.) Boxes over 4 lbs., add another $6, because First Class is no longer available at that weight, just Priority Mail. Note, too, boxed sets of LPs require more postage.

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