Kitain settled in France, but the outbreak of the second world war prompted him to move to the United States.
Despite a certain amount of critical success, he remained overshadowed by the ubiquitous figure of his former classmate, Horowitz.
They show a pianist of consummate technique and musicality, bearing many resemblances to his exact contemporaries, Horowitz and Barere.
Reviewing the album "Anatole Kitain - The Complete Columbia Recordings 1936-39", Classic CD magazine wrote: On the evidence of these 26 titles, lovingly remastered in almost uniformly remarkable sound, here is one of the major pianists of the century...
I would definitely put this important release into my Top Fifty All-time Great Piano recordings without a doubt.