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SAMUIL FEINBERG
Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 20/Mar/2020 ] One phenomenal composer-pianist's homage to another. Samuil Feinberg's music is here championed by Marc-André Hamelin, whose performances are sensitive to all its shadows and anxieties while being-of course-fully equal to the prodigious technical... |
JEKOBS JANCEVSKIS
Jančevskis: Aeternum & other choral works Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir, Jurģis Cābulis (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - due 28/Feb/2020 ] Jēkabs Jančevskis is a young Latvian composer and an exponent of that thrilling, accessible brand of choral writing which flourishes in the Baltic States as nowhere else, and which has become something of an established Hyperion... |
LEOPOLD & W. A. MOZART / CARL HEINRICH GRAUN / ANONYMOUS / GEORG PHIPIPP TELEMANN
The Early Horn Ursula Paludan Monberg (horn), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - due 28/Feb/2020 ] The Mozarts-father Leopold and son Wolfgang Amadeus-bookend a virtuosic recital from Ursula Paludan Monberg, who traces the development of the natural horn as a solo instrument throughout the eighteenth century. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & other works Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer (conductor) , with Philippe Quint (violin) [ Hyperion / CD - due 28/Feb/2020 ] The Mozarts-father Leopold and son Wolfgang Amadeus-bookend a virtuosic recital from Ursula Paludan Monberg, who traces the development of the natural horn as a solo instrument throughout the eighteenth century. |
RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 3 'Pastoral' & 4 David Butt Philip (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] "Brabbins's attention to dynamic detail is also striking, both in the first movement (note the really hushed level of the development before the recapitulation really erupts) and the troubling demeanour of the slow movement" (Gramophone) |
AUGUSTE DUPONT / PETER BENOIT
Dupont & Benoit: Piano Concertos Howard Shelley (piano), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen, Howard Shelley (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 80 / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] The figures of Auguste Dupont and Peter Benoit may be little known outside their native Belgium, yet both enjoyed pianistic and pedagogical success in their lifetimes. Benoit's symphonic poem is a piano concerto in all but name, ending with a... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 6 Julia Kleiter (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] A programme of exquisite miniatures, alternative versions and a wonderful quasi-operatic scena: this is a tantalizing Lisztian recital to showcase the artistry of Julia Kleiter. ... |
HENRY LITOLFF
Litolff: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 Leonore Piano Trio [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] If the name of Henry Charles Litolff is familiar today only through the scherzo of his Concerto symphonique No 4, the absurdity of that 'one-hit composer' tag is clearly demonstrated by this release. These are among the finest examples of the piano... |
BELA BARTOK / ERICH KORNGOLD
Bartók & Korngold: Piano Quintets Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] "Throughout both quintets, Lane's piano has kept pace with any number of quirky metrics and subtle keyboard effect,s all captured in piercing sonics by Record Producer Jeremy Hayes" AudAud.com |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 31/Jan/2020 ] The challenges of Prokofiev's 'War Sonatas' trilogy may be fearsome, but Steven Osborne is one of those rare musicians who can bring light and clarity (as well as phenomenal reserves of power and concentration) to bear on some of the most ferociously |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 24/Jan/2020 ] "this is some of the most refreshing, surprising and emotionally fulfilling late Brahms I've heard in a modern piano recording … a New Year treat that will still, I think, be in some of the 'best of the year' lists in December' (BBC Record Review) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: The Six Partitas Angela Hewitt [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] 'Brilliant, well-sounding, expressive and always new' was the verdict of Bach's first biographer on the six Partitas, a description which applies equally to Angela Hewitt's wonderful new recording of what Bach designated his 'Opus 1'. Angela... |
CAMILE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No 1 & The carnival of the animals Utah Symphony / Thierry Fischer [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Don't be fooled by those well-known portraits of Saint-Saëns the bearded éminence grise - the two symphonies recorded here are the work of the young Camille, spreading his compositional wings and displaying a technical fluency far beyond his teenage... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
New England Choirworks Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] With a spectacular vocal contribution from the Elm City Girls' Choir (we defy you to resist an immediate encore), and compositions by Roderick Williams and David Hill himself among others, Yale Schola Cantorum's exuberant celebration of contemporary... |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Schütz's 'Christmas story' is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer's old age and constrained circumstances. Here it's the jubilant climax to a programme of... |
PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Lamentations Cinquecento [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The members of Cinquecento turn to perhaps the pre-eminent composer of the sixteenth century: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been integral to the liturgical rites of Holy Week: here is one of the... |
TALLIS / RUTTER / PRAETORIUS / HOLST/ HANDEL etc
Christmas The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] From the timeless plainchant 'Veni Emmanuel' via Jonathan Harvey to a riotous 'Jingle bells': Owain Park presents a programme of Christmas treats which effortlessly spans the centuries. |
St George's Chapel Choir Windsor / James Vivian, Luke Bond
Christmas at St George's Windsor [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The Choir of St George's Chapel, world famous through its royal patronage, is one of this country's foremost, participating in daily services throughout the year at its Windsor Castle home. Here the choir performs a wide range of music appropriate... |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The celebrated partnership of Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet has already set down reference recordings of piano quintets by Schumann, Franck and Shostakovich, and this latest addition is equally illustrious; an important milestone in the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Preludes & Piano Sonatas Andrey Gugnin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "Gugnin rivets us in orchestral-sounding climaxes…and the metaphysical twilight zones in between…Gugnin finds surprising poetry in the music" BBC Music Award Finalist 2020 |
