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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / LOEWE / SULLIVAN / WOLF / etc
The Ballad Singer Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "Drake's playing has successfully suited the varied repertoire. Finley has enthralled with his interpretations and delighted with his singing purely as singing, combining the two aspects expertly." (International Record Review) |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 3 Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "With the versatile Julius Drake at the piano any singer can be assured that he/she has the best possible support and the rapport between Finley and Drake feels like twin-souls working together." Recording of the Month MusicWeb Aug 15 |
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SCHUMANN
Dichterliebe & other Heine settings Gerald Finley (baritone) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009: Solo vocal - "In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung an intensely experience performances on dic of Schumann's cycle of rapture, disillusion and... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Liederkreis Op 24 & Op 39 Gerald Finley (baritone) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] 'This recording shows a greater richness in Finley's voice plus an evolving intimacy in his approach to recording Lieder … each song's overall conception-of which Julius Drake is a key part-reflects great thought as to its core emotion' Gramophone |
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CHARLES IVES
Romanzo di Central Park: Songs Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Solo Vocal - 'Outstandingly well sung and played, equally well recorded, and highly recommendable to all lovers of fine songs and fine singing' (BBC Music Magazine Choral & Song album of the month March 2008) |
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CHARLES IVES
A Song-For Anything Gerald Finley (baritone) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] "Overall, a disc offering sustained illumination and enjoyment' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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SCHUBERT
Winterreise D911 Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Feb/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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ARMSTRONG GIBBS
Songs Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Piano Quintet, String Quartet & Idylls Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Powerful, committed performances that illuminate Frank Bridge's multi-faceted mastery" (Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine) |
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ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 / Cello sonata Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] Russia in the nineteenth century had little need for chamber music-no Parisian-style competitive quartetting here. But out of this very isolation came a small, but nonetheless mighty, handful of works: those by Borodin are among the finest. |
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BLOCH
Piano Quintets Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] 'Piers Lane and the Goldners convey both the frenzy and the languor of Bloch's music' (BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Jan 2008) |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] 'The performers offer an immensely satisfying and unmannered performance' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Piano Quintet in G minor / etc Goldner String Quartet, with Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "[the Goldner] relish the music's C minor sturm und drang with infectious bravado…[and] the quartet's gifted leader Dene Olding joins forces with Piers Lane in a rousing performance of the violin-and-piano Swedish Dances" BBC Music |
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HAMILTON HARTY
Piano Quintet / String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 Goldner String Quartet with Piers Lane, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Acclaimed pianist Piers Lane and his fellow Australians, the Goldner String Quartet, reprise their highly successful partnership in these world-premiere recordings of the two String Quartets and Piano Quintet of Irish composer Hamilton Harty. Born in... |
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FRANCIS POULENC
The Complete Songs Graham Johnson (piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ailish Tynan (soprano), etc. [ Hyperion / CD Box Set - released 30/Sep/2013 ] Graham Johnson is simply the greatest living authority on French song; an artist whose innate feeling for the music is combined with prodigious scholarship. |
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ERNEST BLOCH
Bloch: Violin Sonatas Hagai Shaham (violin) / Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] This is the first of two discs which will encompass Bloch's complete music for violin and piano. |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: The Violin Sonatas Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] "The two players bring to the music a spontaneous flow and a detailed yet carefree observation of Grieg's performance instructions" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
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BLOCH / BEN-HAIM
Violin Suites Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "Insightful, expressive, and thoroughly idiomatic. An articulate and important statement about both composers' work. Reservations concerning actual recordings should be seen in that light" (MusicWeb March 2007) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 / Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) / Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jul/2006 ] Hyperion's Record of the Month for August features Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton in a compelling account of Brahmss huge Piano Concerto No 2. This work blends the principles of symphony and concerto in a... |
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J.S. BACH
Bach - Piano Transcriptions vol. 5 Hamish Milne, piano [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] "Hamish Milne again and again reveals his pianistic talents, and his playing also reflects his love of this demanding yet rewarding repertoire" - MusicWeb June 2005. |