STEPHEN HOUGH / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "This recording really is a joy from start to finish...the Takács Quartet are alive to every inflection in Ravel's meticulously marked score..Above all, Stephen Hough's is an unmistakably individual and convincing voice." BBC Music Five Stars Feb 201 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Felix's impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister's death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frame it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work. |
SMETANA / JANACEK
String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] A second new album this year from the much-fêted Takács Quartet presents three popular string quartets from Czechoslovakia. Janáček's two quartets share with Smetana's No 1 narrative undercurrents, and draw from our four players performances of... |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14 (with Debussy - String Quartet in G minor) Takács Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2016 ] Franck's Piano Quintet and Debussy's String Quartet make an apt and unusual coupling, each work its composer's only, unsurpassable, contribution to the genre. Both receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet.. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Takacs Quartet with Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] 'The Takács Quartet bring a huge sense of enjoyment to both the Piano Quintet and the String Quartet Op 51 No 2, and it's clear that this chamber music is being revelled in by its players as much as its listeners. Stephen Hough's playing -... |
PAGANINI
24 Caprices Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] 'A sparkling, cleaned-up version of Paganini, sounding the more amazing for its polish and clarity, and bringing into focus the poetic, romantic sensibility that enthralled the composer's contemporaries.' Editor's Choice Gramophone May 2009 |
BUSONI / RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concertos Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 16 / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender returns to the Romantic Violin Concerto series having dazzled the critics with her 'great lyrical force and tremendous sense of drama' in her recording of the Reger concerto. Here she appears with Hyperion house... |
MAX REGER
Reger: Violin Concerto in A / Two Romances Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original" BBC Music Five Stars |
RESPIGHI
Violin works {incls violin sonatas) Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Peter Nagy (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "a revelatory programme, performed with rare panache." Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 |
HINDEMITH
Violin Sonatas Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Péter Nagy (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Becker-Bender and Péter Nagy are well matched and give thoroughly forthright performances of real integrity, vitality and intelligence." MusicWeb International, 22nd January 2014 |
FRIEDRICH KALKBRENNER
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra / Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Hyperion Great Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 41 / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] 'Kalkbrenner's First Concerto offers a truly beautiful and atmospheric slow movement...it would be a boring world if we couldn't find an hour to listen to these musical layer cakes from a bygone age' (Pianist: Recommended) |
KARLOWICZ / MOSZKOWSKI
Violin Concertos Tasmin Little (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 4 / CD - released 12/May/2004 ] The fourth volume in the burgeoning 'Romantic Violin Concerto' series. The central work on the disc is Moritz Moszkowski's C major Violin Concerto, a full-blooded work which demands exceptional virtuosity. Martyn Brabbins again leads the BBC Scottish... |
Tatiana Nikolaeva
Shostakovich:piano Music [ Hyperion / CD ] |
J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'This disc captures all the warmth and naturalness which this great artist shows in live recitals' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A / Clarinet Quintet in A Thea King (basset clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate / Gabrieli String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE - 'Winning performances. Excellent recording' (Penguin Guide) |
ARTHUR SOMERVELL
Somervell: Clarinet Quintet Thea King (clarinet) / Aeolian Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'The performances are euphonious and strongly committed' (Gramophone) |
TAUSCH / SUSSMAYR
Double Clarinet Concertos / Concerto Movement Thea King (clarinet, basset clarinet) Nicholas Bucknall (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Leopold Hager (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] 'I can't imagine a more beguiling account of the music and every lover of the clarinet will want to have this CD' - Gramophone |