Press reviews
- "Nobody plays the guitar like Philip Hii; he's a Heifetz of the classical guitar. Hii's Allegro is the best I've ever heard and the Toccata and Fugue is downright scary. This is must listening for classical guitar buffs who want to blow a few fuses."
Diane Gordon Acoustic Guitar Review, July/August 1994
- With impeccable technique and outstanding interpretative gifts, Hii succeeds in making these pieces - originally for violin or organ - sound joyfully at home on nylon-string guitar. His passionate rubato and penetrating tone contribute to a thrilling performance that adds a new dimension to the Bach repertoire.
James Rotondi Guitar Player Review, November, 1995
- "Philip Hii's approach is not only spirited and gutsy, but is scholarly...one that I recommend to all who want guitar music to rise above the salon and to ex/reviews a little more than intimate charm...Philip Hii joins the daring band of prospectors who have mined new gold."
Colin Cooper Classical Guitar Magazine Review July, 1994
- "An even more exciting disc - because it faces more serious challenges and meets them brilliantly - is J. S. Bach: New Transcriptions for Guitar". Hii makes it sound as if it had been composed for his own instrument - no small accomplishment."
Joseph McLellan Washington Post Review October 8, 1995
- "Fortunately for music lovers, there can never be a definitive Bach, but Philip Hii's New Transcriptions for Guitar must certainly join the ranks of the great performances and will undoubtedly give up-and-coming contenders an exciting goal to strive for."
Michael Wright Audio Magazine Review, May 1996
- "A guitarist with virtuosic precision, highest marked perfection, accuracy and the ambition to reach the highest hurdle. He can cast a magic spell on six strings which one rarely hears from this instrument in this country."
Walter Mottl, Die Rheinpfalz, Kaiserslauten, Germany
- "...astonishing technique, abundant ideation and liquid ex/reviewsion...elegant sense of timing, his genuine interpretation and superb phrasing, the result being a completely satisfying Bach recital that borders on revelation. Yes, two roads diverged in a wood and Hii - he took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
John Schneider Soundboard Review, Winter 1996
- "Incredible CD... I am mesmerized and awestruck... a guitar master of the highest order."
Raul Jose, In Tune - Arizona Classical Guitar Society Arizona Classical Guitar Society Review
- Acoustic Guitar Article, June 1997
- Tampa Tribune Review, September 13, 1995
- Classical Guitar Review, March, 1995
- The Gendai Guitar Review, September, 1994
- Gitarre Aktuell Review, January 1994
- Musikblatt Review, January, 1994