ACHRON
Complete Suites for Violin & Piano Hagai Shaham, violin, Arnon Erez, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2012 ] |
HUBAY
Scanes de la csarda Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'Hagai Shaham has tremendous flair, extraordinary technical facility, and an organic musical sense that makes it difficult to stop listening' (American Guide) |
BLOCH
Violin Sonatas Hagai Shaham (violin) / Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] This is the first of two discs which will encompass Bloch's complete music for violin and piano. |
LEO WEINER
Violin Sonatas Hagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] 'Hagai Shaham plays with a large, richly Romantic tone and a feeling for the grand gestures in which the music delivers its message and the ethnic matrix from which it emerged. But he also has the virtuosic flair to put across the most flamboyant... |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: The Violin Sonatas Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] "The two players bring to the music a spontaneous flow and a detailed yet carefree observation of Grieg's performance instructions" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
BLOCH / BEN-HAIM
Violin Suites Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "Insightful, expressive, and thoroughly idiomatic. An articulate and important statement about both composers' work. Reservations concerning actual recordings should be seen in that light" (MusicWeb March 2007) |
FRANZ XAVER SCHARWENKA / ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Rubinstein / Scharwenka: Piano Concertos Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Michael Stern [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] "This splendidly engineered disc is a crown jewel both in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series and in Hamelin's standard-setting discography. Bravo!" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
J.S. BACH
Bach - Piano Transcriptions vol. 5 Hamish Milne, piano [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] "Hamish Milne again and again reveals his pianistic talents, and his playing also reflects his love of this demanding yet rewarding repertoire" - MusicWeb June 2005. |
MEDTNER
Arabesques, Dithyrambs, Elegies & other short piano works Hamish Milne (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "As Milne's forthright, utterly secure performances make clear, much of this is strongly characterised music...Milne is a wonderfully persuasive advocate for this distinctive and generally underrated music" The Guardian, 14th March 2012 **** |
SERGEI LYAPUNOV
Lyapunov: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 4 / Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, Op 28 / Piano Concerto No 2, Op 38 Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 30 / CD - released 18/Oct/2002 ] 'Yet another programme that makes incomprehensible the narrow choice of 19th-century piano concertos heard in our concert halls today' (BBC Music Magazine) |
JOSEPH HOLBROOKE / HAYDN WOOD
Holbrooke / Wood: Piano Concertos Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 23 / CD - released 7/Jul/2000 ] 'Superlative performances of two forgotten British gems... An altogether exemplary release.' (Gramophone) |
GOETZ / WIENIAWSKI
Goetz / Wieniawski: Piano Concertos Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Michal Dworzynski [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 52 / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] 'There is much about Goetz's concert that is adorable - the slow movement in particular - and it is well worth the average listener's attention.' (International Record Review) |
SCHUMANN
The Songs of Robert Schumann Vol 11 (Incls Sechs GesANnge, Op 89) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] 'This disc goes far to vindicating some of Schumann's least-favoured late songs, not least due to Graham Johnson's eloquent advocacy, in print and in performance' (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 27 Angela Hewitt (piano), Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Hannu Lintu (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE WEEK |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 1 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2008 ] 'Listening to this opener in Howard Shelley's complete cycle, recorded on a pristine-sounding modern piano, it is hard to imagine anyone else ever making them sound better … Shelley reveals this by treating each and every one of these works with the... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 6 Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Howard Shelley's survey of the piano music is an undoubted highlight of the Mendelssohn revival. In this, the final instalment of the series, he focuses on late works and posthumous publications. |
JOHANN BAPTIST CRAMER
Cramer: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 6 Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), London Mozart Players [ Hyperion The Classical Piano Concerto Vol 7 / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "the immaculate playing here is alert and personable in a way that transcends contentious issues of style." BBC Music |
JOHANN BAPTIST CRAMER
Cramer: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), London Mozart Players [ Hyperion The Classical Piano Concerto Vol 6 / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Listening to these fluent, expressive performances, it's difficult to see how even Cramer-one of the great virtuosos of his day-could have matched the effortless mastery so characteristic of Howard Shelley's pianism. |
CLEMENTI
Capriccios & Variations Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Even the slightest, most trivial pieces are enhanced by Howard Shelley's brisk tempos, and he's served by an infallible technique, from virtuoso finger-dexterity to deeply expressive, spacious reflection elsewhere." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] |