CECILE CHAMINADE
Chaminade: Piano Music vol. 1 Peter Jacobs (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 2/Nov/2005 ] "An undemanding and tuneful collection that will enchant all but the strictest classicists and the hardest-hearted" (MusicWeb) |
FRANCK / HOUGH / REYNOLDS / LISZT / TCHAIKOVSKY / HUMMEL / SCHUBERT / BOWEN / BRAHMS / WEBER / MOMPOU / CHOPIN
The Stephen Hough Piano Collection Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] The Stephen Hough Piano Collection, available at budget price, brings together tracks from all eleven of Stephen Hough's acclaimed solo recordings on Hyperion, from Gramophone Award-winning Mompou, through rarely trodden byways of Weber and Reynolds,... |
LISZT
Complete Music for Solo Piano: Litanies de Marie Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 47 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "This is surely one of the most valuable of Leslie Howard's pioneering series, all and Lisztians should have it" (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Arabesques Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 35 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Bunte Reihe, S484 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Brilliant, and apart from its value as Liszt documentation the issue is an entertaining curiosity" (Gramophone) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Christmas Tree & Via Crucis Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "This CD was a revelation - this is great music played with impeccable artistry and flawlessly recorded, one of the best solo piano records I've heard in the past ten years." (CD Review) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 14 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another pithy release in what is fast looming as one of the most imposing recording landmarks of the century' (Fanfare, USA) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Excelsior! Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 36 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near-orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions of National Songs and Anthems Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 27 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "An entertaining programme ... providing the perfect vehicle for Leslie Howard's enthusiastic, colourful playing. His scholarship, as revealed in the liner notes, is remarkable, the recording first class" (CD Review) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: The Canticle of the Sun Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 25 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "As choice as anything he's yet given us and the same goes for the recording" (Gramophone) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: The Hexaméron Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Liszt Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Howard's steel-fingered pianistic athleticism is backed by strong musical intuition and there seems no limit to his technical prowess. The recorded sound is a banquet for the ears. Highly recommended" (American Record Guide) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: The Late Pieces Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard's performances are quite marvellous: scrupulously prepared and enlightened by this performer's high degree of spontaneity. Hyperion's recording captures every nuance' - CDReview |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Liszt at the Theatre Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 18 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another superbly produced instalment of this awesome endeavour. Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Liebestraume and the Songbooks Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 19 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Among the most readily and revealingly appealing issues of Howard's stupendous enterprise. Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Tanzmomente Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 37 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Vol 37 is a record not only to which lovers of Liszt can return, but which should give pleasure to those who may never have heard of some of the composers transcribed but enjoy the minor, overgrown paths of the nineteenth century' (Gramophone) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Les Preludes. Concert etudes & Episodes from Lenau's Faust Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 38 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A rewarding collection, very well played and recorded' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Deuxiame Annae de Palerinage; Venezie e Napoli Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 43 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A familiar enough masterpiece yet typically spiced by Howard with some fascinating side-steps and discoveries' (Gramophone) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Schubert and Weber Transcriptions Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 49 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A very good pianist, who understands the Lisztian idiom and presents it with great effectiveness' (American Record Guide) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Saint-Saens, Chopin and Berlioz transcriptions Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 2/May/2005 ] 'I can wholly recommend this release to lovers of Liszt since it presents much music that is otherwise unavailable' (Gramophone) |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Ungarischer Romanzero Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 52 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'These arrangements are quite elaborate and charming' (Classic CD) |