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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Quintet and Violin Sonata The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Oct/1994 ] 'My top recommendation … would remain the Hyperion recording of the Nash Ensemble, also with Ian Brown, which combines high-calibre individual playing with all the requisite nostalgic resonances' (BBC Music Magazine) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: String Quartet in E minor Op.59 / String Quartet in C Op.59t The New Budapest String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Apr/1993 ] 'This is a top recommendation for all these works' (Classic CD) 'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone) |
SOUSA / ANDERSON / GERSHWIN / MacDOWELL / GILLIS / RODGERS / GOULD / etc
American Light Music Classics (Includes The March of the Toys, Holiday for Strings & The Teddy Bear's Picnic) New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/May/2000 ] 'These lovely old tunes have a freshness and charm akin to the best light-hearted literature or illustration from the same period. A splendid successor to the previous volumes' (Gramophone) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: The Four Ballades & Piano Sonata No 3 Nikolai Demidenko (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2003 ] 'Lovely playing which I enjoyed from first note to last for its poetry and passion as well as seemingly effortless keyboard fluency and command' - Gramophone |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Medtner: Piano works (Incls Sonaten-Triade, Op 11 & Theme and variations in C sharp minor, Op 55) Nikolai Demidenko (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "I must be careful not to make this sound like an indiscriminate rave review, but what do you do when a disc of this calibre drops through your letterbox? An exceptionally fine disc indeed" Gramophone Magazine |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Enigma Variations / Organ Sonata Organ of The Temple Church, London / Keith John (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'a technically brilliant performance that employs the instrument's full range of colours and sonorities' (BBC Music Magazine) |
LOYSET COMPERE
Compere: Magnificat, motets & chansons Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "this project is a confident affirmation that all-vocal recordings of 15th-century songs are well worth making' (Gramophone) |
LEO ORNSTEIN
Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 Pacifica Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] The young pianist-composer Leo Ornstein went from wowing the ladies with his virtuosity to writing a Violin Sonata in 1915 of such atonal violence that it frightened even him. By the time of the two works recorded here his style was more rounded.... |
HANDEL / ROSEINGRAVE / CHILCOT / HAYES / etc
English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos The Parley of Instruments / Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/fortepiano/organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] 'A delightful project' (The Times) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata & other piano music Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] The 'abundance of intelligence' in Pavel Kolesnikov's pianism which so impressed Gramophone pays particular dividends in Beethoven, the 'Moonlight' sonata sounding newly minted in this remarkable reading. |
CECILE CHAMINADE
Chaminade: Piano Music vol 2 Peter Jacobs (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] 'A treasure trove for the explorer' (BBC Music magazine) |
CECILE CHAMINADE
Chaminade: Piano Music vol 3 Peter Jacobs (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Aug/2006 ] 'As in the previous volumes, Peter Jacobs shows himself to be fluent, clean-fingered, elegantly delicate where required, and able to invest the music with fine nuances of tone and pace - an ideal interpreter of Chaminade' (Gramophone) |
Alban Gerhardt, Alliage Quintett
Phantasy in Blue [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Playful yet serious, imaginative yet true to the spirit of the originals - Alban Gerhardt and the inimitable Alliage Quintett offer a wholly new perspective on a variety of favourites drawn from the cello's established repertoire and beyond. |
EUGENE YSAYE
Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for solo violin Op. 27 MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Philippe Graffin (violin), Pascal Devoyon (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/1997 ] Eugène Ysaÿe was the charismatic and flamboyant successor to Wieniawski in the great French tradition of violin virtuosity. Yet he was to take the genre to new and giddy heights with his Six Sonatas for solo violin of 1924. Each sonata is dedicated... |
EYVIND ALNAES / CHRISTIAN SINDING
Alnaes/Sinding: Piano Concertos Piers Lane (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Hyperion Great Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 42 / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] 'Despite the obscurity of this music, Piers Lane plays it with confidence and insight. The Bergen Philharmonic, under its music director Andrew Litton, provides solid, stylish support and the recording is spacious and ideally balanced' (Daily Telegraph) |
J.S. BACH
Bach Piano Transcriptions Vol 8 (Eugen d' Albert) Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] Johann Sebastian Bach is hardly likely to require an introduction to listeners of this CD, but Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932) may well be another matter. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: The Complete Etudes Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Apr/2005 ] 'Lively and sensitive performances make this a fine addition to the Saint-Saëns discography, aided by the pianist's own excellent annotations and Hyperion's usual peerless sound' - Fanfare, USA |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Virtuoso Strauss Transcriptions Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] 'Throughout this collection Mr Lane's playing shimmers with liquid warmth ... his performances hang together out of his evident affection for these scores and the sheer convicton of his playing' (The New York Times) |
MOSZKOWSKI / PADEREWSKI
Piano Concertos Piers Lane (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 1 / CD - released 3/Apr/2005 ] 'Performances of exceptional poetry and virtuosity and the recording is first class. Strongly recommended' - The Good CD Guide |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Three String Quartets & Piano Quintet Piers Lane (piano) / New Budapest Quartet [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2003 ] 'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone) |
