FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 Matthew Polenzani (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "This auspicious inauguration of the series whets the appetite for more." (International Record Review) |
ISAAC ALBENIZ / ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Albeniz / Granados: Piano Concertos Melani Mestre (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 65 / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albéniz Concierto fantástico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the... |
STENHAMMAR / SJOGREN / NYSTROEM / RANGSTROM
Soul and Landscape Miah Persson (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jul/2008 ] 'Everything about this disc is inviting … the kind of CD that makes you want to go back and listen again to almost every song … I cannot imagine them being better sung … It is typical of Hyperion to present both such material and such a promising... |
ROSSINI
Soiraes musicales Miah Persson (soprano) Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano) Bruce Ford (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Rossini's Soirées musicales and Péchés de vieillesse were the musical fruits of salon evenings held weekly in his Parisian home. Elegant, charming and often delicately ironic, these songs for various voices are the perfect exemplar of 'salon music',... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / STRAUSS / FAURE / etc
Of ladies and love Michael Schade (tenor) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Sep/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (October 2002) |
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs of John Ireland Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire" (Hi-Fi News) |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "Performances characterised by admirable technical fluency and innate musical quality" The Strad |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'Uniformly fine, sensitive and idiomatic playing and sound that alternately carresses and thunders as the music requires, this disc is a bargain even at Hyperion's full imported-from-England price. Of all these fine works it would be impossible to... |
GRECHANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] 'Lovely and fresh-sounding tonal works full of emotional tune-spinning' (Audiophile) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K310-311 & 330-333 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Angela Hewitt's voyage of discovery through Mozart's piano sonatas is proving a joy, the works sounding newly minted in vital, alert accounts which respect their scale and sensibility while revealing influences of Mozart's orchestral and concerto... |
SERGE BORTKIEWICZ
Bortkiewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 & other works Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] "This is a quite superb CD, and one that I simply couldn't put down. The playing is absolutely first class." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month March 2016) |
J. S. BACH
Piano Transcriptions Vol. 10 (complete Bach transcriptions by Saint-Saens) Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] Hyperion's Bach Transcriptions series shows Bach through the fascinating prism of the Romantic musical mind. This latest volume presents the complete transcriptions by Saint-Saëns, and the programme is interspersed with transcriptions by the elder... |
PANCHO VLADIGEROV
Vladigerov: Exotic preludes & Impressions Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] "Vlaeva's mind, fingers and soul totally embrace Vladigerov's idiom. Her ear for tone colour and her innate sense of controlled Romanticism are exactly what this repertoire needs." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2021 |
WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER
Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs The Nash Ensemble with John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'These modest miniatures reveal a composer who was able, not only to invent memorable ideas, but to do some artful things with them'- The Sunday Times |
JOSEF SUK
Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet in A minor Op 1) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] 'The Nash Ensemble plays with all its customary skill and insight, highlighted by the remarkable pianism of Ian Brown' (Classic FM Magazine) |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] The colourful folk melodies and rhythms of Spain knit seamlessly with twentieth-century French compositional sophistication in Joaquín Turina's chamber works. Born in Seville, Andalucia, the young composer went to study in Paris in 1905, where he was... |
WALTON
Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet & Violin Sonata) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Oct/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Nov 2002) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Metamorphosen / Piano Quartet The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] 'The music's autumnal soulfulness suits the Nash Ensemble's house style to near-perfection... The same classy artistry shines through their performances of the string sextet prelude to Strauss's last opera Capriccio, and of the much earlier Piano... |
ARENSKY / TANEYEV
Arensky / Taneyev: Piano Quintets Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Lane's light-fingered ascents and rapid scalic plunges are perfectly complemented by the Goldners' feather-light string playing." BBC Music |
CLARA SCHUMANN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Schumann (C) & Mendelssohn (Fanny): Piano Trios & String Quartet The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] A release which celebrates the talents and importance of the 'other' Mendelssohn and Schumann, who emerge from the shadows of their illustrious family names in a blaze of triumphant chamber music. |