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BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion & other piano music Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] A welcome return to the piano music of Béla Bartók and a programme which includes the popular Sonatina, the aggressively experimental Op 18 Études and the Piano Sonata of 1926, the composer's 'year of the piano'. Cédric Tiberghien is then joined by... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Préludes / Piano Sonata No. 2 / Scherzo No. 2 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] 'A Chopin player of real class … Tiberghien's Second Sonata is impressive … the final two movements are particularly fine … this disc as a whole is a potent new addition to the Chopin library' (Gramophone) |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, troisième année & other late piano works Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "Tiberghien's quasi-improvisatory approach works marvellously with works which would otherwise risk sounding directionless and self-indulgent. His range is breathtaking." BBC Music Instrumental Choice March 2019 |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Mikrokosmos Book 6 / Out of Doors / etc Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "Possessing an instinctive feel for impressionism, and for the ebb and flow of those rhythms with their little hesitations and sudden rushes forward, Cédric Tiberghien is ideally fitted for this task…the chief glory of this recording lies in what Tib |
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THEODORE DUBOIS
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor / Suite for piano and string orchestra in F minor / etc Cédric Tiberghien (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "Piano Concerto No 2 of 1898 won't give you great tunes or high drama but it's attractive...The best of the three exhibits is the lighter and sprightly Suite...Vigorously supported...Tiberghien plays as though he loves every dancing note." The Times |
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ERNEST CHAUSSON
Concert and Piano Quartet Chilingirian Quartet with Pascal Devoyon (piano) and Philippe Graffin (violin) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Aug/2006 ] 'The listener is left entirely free to revel in Chausson's sensualistic palette of scented harmonies and timbres. A revelation - certainly one of my top releases for 1997' (Classic CD) |
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YORK BOWEN
The complete works for violin and piano Chloë Hanslip (violin) & Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "Chloe Hanslip plays with the most enviably sweet and subtly variegated tone...[Driver's] irreproachably eager and stylish pianism is a joy to encounter." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
The Complete Songs Vol. 4 Christopher Maltman (baritone) Alastair Miles (bass) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Some splendid accounts of Strauss songs for the male voice. This latest instalment in Hyperion's series is every bit as welcome and enjoyable as were its predecessors and further volumes are eagerly awaited." (MusicWeb April 2009) |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |
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CHARLES KOECHLIN
Songs: Le cortege d'Amphitrite Claudette Leblanc (soprano) Boaz Sharon (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "This really must be a find for those who wish to be captivated by some relatively unknown turn-of-the-century French songs" Hi-Fi News |
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FAURE
'La Chanson d'Eve' and other songs Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Oct/2001 ] PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
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MAHLER
Songs of Youth (incl Lieder und Gesange aus dem Jugendzeit) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] 'Superb. A heart-warming record' - Penguin Stereo Record Guide |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op102 (Nos. 1 & 2) & Variations Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) / Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] 'Absorbing interpretations, where the two players instinctively click and the music comes across with vibrancy, sensitivity and a galvanising unanimity of purpose' (The Daily Telegraph) |
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GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: The 18 Études Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] "In essence, Driver's Ligeti Études complement rather than compete with Aimard and Ullén, and that's high praise." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2021 |
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C. P. E. BACH
Keyboard Sonatas Vol 2 Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Danny Driver is intimately in touch with the fluctuations of the musical language....His feel for the harmonic explorations in the slow movement [of the E major Sonata] and the rhythmic mischievousness of the finale likewise echoes the music's... |
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SCHUMANN
Novelletten / Nachtstücke Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "This is, in short, engaging and sophisticated playing with a fine mix of care and spontaneity." (BBC Music) |
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BENJAMIN DALE
Piano Music Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] The monumental Piano Sonata in D minor was composed by a young Benjamin Dale while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Dale's contemporaries included the burgeoning composer-pianists Arnold Bax and York Bowen. |
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MILY BALAKIREV
Balakirev: Piano Sonata & other works Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "Bravo to Hyperion for championing this music and to Driver for playing it with such sensitivity, polish and élan" (The Daily Telegraph) |
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YORK BOWEN
Bowen: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 46 / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] 'Danny Driver's pianism is fully and eagerly up to Bowen's considerable demands' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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AMY BEACH / CECILE CHAMINADE / DOROTHY HOWELL
Beach, Chaminade & Howell - Piano Concertos Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 70 / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] "but even more appealing is Cécile Chaminade's Concertstück in the same key as the Beach...In Driver's hands it is enchanting." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Concerto |