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GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Violin Sonatas Krysia Osostowicz (violin) / Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/Feb/2006 ] 'Two outstanding performances. A marvellous disc, both as a performance and as a recording' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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GERSHWIN / ROSSINI / REGER / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / etc
Rare Piano Encores Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 7/Aug/2004 ] 'A delightful collection, beautifully played' - BBC World Service |
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PYOTR IL'YICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: The Three Piano Sonatas Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] 'Much stirring music, some unexpected delicacies, and generally walloping performances' (The Observer) |
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GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Holst: Choral Symphony / Choral Fantasia Lynne Dawson (soprano) / Guildford Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic, Wetton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (June 2002 |
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ALEXANDER MacKENZIE
Mackenzie: Violin Concerto / Pibroch Suite Malcolm Stewart (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Vernon Handely, conductor / David Davies, conductor [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] 'Stewart is the real red-blooded article, with a big sound and a bow that travels across the strings so fast that it must look like a blur in the concert hall. But not a single note is blurred or slighted here' - Fanfare, USA |
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SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Mats Lidstrom (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "These artists radiate total conviction and a life-enhancing vitality and sensitivity" Penguin Guide |
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FINZI / GURNEY / FARRAR / BROWNE / KELLY / BUTTERWORTH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: War's Embers: a legacy of songs by composers who perished or suffered in World War 1 Michael George (bass) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'If you enjoy English song, this set is a must ... The singers are Britain's best, and their excellence is matched by the accompaniments of Clifford Benson' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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JESSEL / LEHAR /PIERNE / J. STRAUSS / ALFVEN / GOUNOD / PADILLA / WEINBERGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: European Light Music Classics (Includes Parade of the Tin Soldiers, The Entry of the Boyars & The Skaters Waltz) New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Oct/2014 ] 'Another tasty compilation that will sell like hot cakes' (Classic CD) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos 1 & 5 / Suite for Voice & Violin / etc The Pleeth Cello Octet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'Stunning performances' (BBC Record Review) |
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PERCY GRAINGER / EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 'At Twilight' - Choral Music by Percy Grainger and Edvard Grieg Polyphony with David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] "Grainger's mastery of choral textures shines out of this wide-ranging collection of folk-song arrangements, each highly individual and memorable. Superior performances by Stephen Layton and Polyphony." Five Stars BBC Music Mag (July 2006) |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: The Song of Songs Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] 'an excellently balanced and natural-sounding recording' (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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SCHULHOFF / MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schulhoff / Martinu: String Sextet / Sextet & Three Madrigals The Raphael Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "This enjoyable disc...offers warmly aerated performances, persuasively realised" (MusicWeb Sept 2008) |
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LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Godowsky: Piano Music Rian de Waal (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'A musical as well as a technical revelation ... De Waal's virtuosity is awe-inspiring, and he's complemented throughout by a beautifully natural and wide-ranging recording' (Gramophone) |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Complete Music for Cello Richard Lester (cello) / Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'Chamber-music playing of the highest order, empathetic and warm-hearted' (Birmingham Post) |
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BIRD SONGS AT EVENTIDE
Bird Songs at Eventide Robert White (tenor) Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE 'RECORD OF THE MONTH' - 'If these ardent renderings … do not find a place in your heart then you should wonder what your heart's made of' (Classic FM Magazine) |