MENDELSSOHN / GRIEG / HOUGH
Mendelssohn / Grieg / Hough: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Grieg's sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas (with works by Suk and Dvorak) Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "His current recording of Brahms's Sonatas with Stephen Hough displaces all others" (BBC Music Recording of the Month Dec 2005) |
JOSEPH HAYDN / C.P.E. BACH
Haydn & CPE Bach: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis (cello), The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Isserlis's 1998 recording [of the Haydn] remains classy stuff, but this has superbly trumped it." Gramophone Disc of the Month Awards Issue 2017 |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Instrumental |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano music [2 CDs] Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure...Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Instrumental) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Instrumental - 'Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure' (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "There are so many towering performances of these harrowing works…but I believe Steven Osborne caps them all…This is legendary stuff." BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments musicaux Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] 'One is left wondering where, in the first quarter of the 21st century, one might turn for more idiomatic, more intelligent or more beautiful Rachmaninov-playing.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2022 |
SIR DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY
Piano Concerto in A major, Op 15 (with Mackenzie- Scottish Concerto) Steven Osborne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 19 / CD - released 30/Aug/2008 ] 'What a bonanza this Hyperion offering is! If you fancy piano concertos you'll find plenty in these two neglected specimens to challenge and enchant you' (Fanfare, USA) |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen and other piano music Steven Osborne (piano I) Martin Roscoe (piano II) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] Steven Osborne has already made his name as an outstanding interpreter of Messiaen with his ecstatic recording of the Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus (Hyperion, CDA67351/2), described by Gramophone as 'one of Hyperion's finest piano recordings -... |
GABRIEL FAURE / FRANCIS POULENC / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
French Duets Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Leçons de ténèbres, Litanies & Magnificat Stéphane Degout baritone Samuel Boden tenor Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] Another demonstration from Arcangelo of exactly why they maintain so stellar a reputation as one of today's leading early music ensembles. With contributions from tenor Samuel Boden and baritone Stéphane Degout, this exquisite programme of... |
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bantock: Sappho / Sapphic Poem Susan Bickley (mezzo) Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/May/1999 ] "No praise can be too high for Susan Bickley … [and] Tony Faulkner's stunningly natural engineering complements what is another triumphant addition to Hyperion's ongoing Bantock series" (Gramophone) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: The Choice of Hercules (with Maurice Greene - Hearken Unto me, ye Holy Children) Susan Gritton (soprano) Alice Coote (mezzo) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) / King's Consort & Choir, Robert King [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2002 ] 'A delightful sequence of 24 brief numbers telling the story of Hercules making his choice between Virtue and Pleasure' (The Guardian) |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Symphony No 1 in D minor "Gothic" Susan Gritton (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Peter Auty (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass) / London Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Hyperion's release is a perfect one, of a great event, a magisterial work and an encapsulation of the enormous difficulties of the project as a whole" Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2012 |
POULENC
Gloria / Quatre motets / et Susan Gritton (soprano) / Polyphony / Britten Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Choral - "A success from start to finish with fantastic performances from all concerned, fabulous sound and excellent notes. What more do you need? Don't sit there reading this, go out and buy it without... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "The technical perfection can almost be taken for granted, but there is also the warmth and affection of the performances." BCB Music Five Stars |
STEPHEN HOUGH / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "This recording really is a joy from start to finish...the Takács Quartet are alive to every inflection in Ravel's meticulously marked score..Above all, Stephen Hough's is an unmistakably individual and convincing voice." BBC Music Five Stars Feb 201 |
EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber / GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "...They allow every passionate detail to come across yet preserve a sense of nobility and innate grace that I always associate with Dohnányi." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Chamber |