DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2005 ] 'The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity' - Gramophone |
Thea King
English Music Clarinet & Piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
BRAHMS
The Two Clarinet Sonatas Thea King (clarinet) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "Really, I have only two words to say about this disc - 'Buy it!'" - BBC Record Review |
SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schiller Settings Thomas Allen (baritone) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 'Thomas Alen is in commanding form, singing with unforced beauty of tone and intelligent, unobtrusive attention to the words' (Classic CD) |
SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schubert and the Classics Thomas Hampson (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 14 / CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] 'The readings, with Johnson's piano at its probing best, are constantly enlightening and carry the absorbed listener into a rarefied world of word and music. The disc lasts an incredible 80 minutes, but the time flies by in such perceptive company'... |
JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Piano Concertos Opp. 3, 14 & 49 Ulster Orchestra, Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Hyperion The Classical Piano Concerto Vol 5 / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "Dussek wrote little orchestral music beyond his concertos but the sympathetic collaboration of the Ulster orchestra showcases the increasing subtlety and sophistication of his handling of the orchestra." Gramophone |
JEAN FRANCAIX
Orchestral Music vol.2 Ulster Orchestra / Philippe Cassard (piano) Thierry Fischer (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] This recording of orchestral music by Jean Françaix - personification of the elegant and witty French 'salon' ambience - brings us two ballets scores and the Concertino for piano and orchestra, one of the composer's earliest successes, still one of... |
CHOPIN
Polish Songs, Op 74 Urszula Kryger (mezzo) Charles Spencer (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] 'A rare opportunity to sample Chopin the song composer, here performed with real feeling by Polish mezzo Urszula Kryger.'(Gramophone) |
SIR HUBERT PARRY
Parry: English Lyrics and Songs Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Hyperion presents a CD's-worth of Parry's songs (30 of them), largely drawn from his 12 sets of English Lyrics written between about 1885 and 1920. |
Various Artists
Liszt:piano Music 51 [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
LISZT
Liszt: Piano Music 41: The Recitations with pianoforte Leslie Howard (piano) with Yuri Stepanov (reciter), Wolf Kahler (reciter) & Sandor Eles (reciter) [ Hyperion / CD ] |
ARENSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MUSSORGSKY / TANEYEV / etc
English Poets, Russian Romances Vassily Savenko (bass-baritone) Alexander Blok (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] 'Russian composers have set many English poems to music, and here we have some of the best' (Classic FM Magazine) |
SATIE
Piano Music (Including Trois Gymnopedies & Sonatine Bureaucratique) Yitkin Seow (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Nov/2004 ] 'A generously filled anthology... consistent beauty of sound' (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
DELIUS
Delius: Songs Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] "Yvonne Kenny is, as ever, a scrupulous, sensitive artist, always alive to mood and character. She vividly catches the bardic desolation of Twilight Fancies, the sensuality of In the Garden of the Seraglio and the wayward charm of The Nightingale Has... |