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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Piano Music Angela Hewitt, piano [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] 'Playing of the highest polish. Fastidiously balanced chords, every detail clear and clean. Rarely, if ever, can Messiaen's piano music have been played with such refinement' - Classic CD |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): The Toccatas Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Jul/2002 ] 'Her performances could hardly be more stylish or impeccable, more vital or refined; and, as a crowning touch, Hyperion's sound is superb.'(Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
The Keyboard Concertos (complete) Angela Hewitt (Piano) /Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2007 ] EDITOR'S CHOICE (Gramophone) CD OF THE MONTH (Gramophone) CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK (The Sunday Times) ALBUM OF THE WEEK (Musicweek) CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK (The Daily Telegraph) DISC OF THE MONTH (Classic FM Magazine) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto / Introduction and Allegro / etc Angela Hewitt (piano) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hannu Lintu [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] Angela Hewitt's recordings of Schumann's solo piano works for Hyperion have been described as 'revelatory … something to cherish' (Gramophone) and 'unreservedly superb' (The Guardian). Now she turns her attention to the works for piano and orchestra... |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 9 and 9 Angela Hewitt (piano) / Orchestra da Camera di Mantova [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] "Hewitt directs the performances from the keyboard; with the piano well forward of the orchestra in the sound picture, her playing is typically crisp, and occasionally perhaps a bit too brisk, though its attention to detail is immaculate" The... |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
San Giovanni Battista: oratorio for soloists and instruments Anke Herrmann, Antonio Abete, Elena Cecchi Fedi / Academia Montis Regalis / Alessandro De Marchi [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] 'Stradella's score, characterized by constant variety, is ravishing throughout … The whole band plays with tremendous panache and stylistic aplomb' (International Record Review) |
ANONYMOUS / TRADITIONAL
The Last Rose of Summer Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] 'Not in the profoundest Schubert, the most exquisite Fauré, has either of them performed with more delicacy and refinement, more tenderness, humour, and ... passion, than they do here' - Gramophone |
DURUFLE
Requiem Op 9, Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens Op 10 Ann Murray, Thomas Allen / Corydon Singers / English Chamber / Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Nov/2000 ] 'A wonderfully sympathetic performance... a heavenly, visionary effect which is amazingly satisfying' (BBC Record Review) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Music for violin and piano (Includes the Violin sonata in F) Anthony Marwood (violin) Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] 'Yet another unimpeachable release from the Hyperion stable' (Classic CD) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Complete Music for Violin & Piano Anthony Marwood (violin) Thomas Adès (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Anthony Marwood (violin) & Thomas Adès (piano) 2CD's for price of 1 |
ANTONIO CESTI
Cesti: Le disgrazie d'Amore Auser Musici / Carlo Ipata (conductor) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "Most of these singers are accomplished, but the male soprano Paolo Lopez as Cupid is truly exceptional. The sound is good and the music is well-crafted." BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 *** |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Mahan Esfahani (harpischord/clavichord), Carolyn Sampson (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "What an unfailingly delightful compilation it is, featuring keyboard galanteries, chorale melodies with or without voice and a wide variety of arias...few if any will be disappointed with an enchanting programme" BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The French Suites Mahan Esfahani (early keyboard instruments) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] 'Mahan Esfahani couldn't make a routine recital of Bach's keyboard music if you paid him' was BBC Record Review's verdict on a previous release: prospective listeners to this wonderful new set should rest assured that any hint of the routine remains... |
PURCELL
Complete Secular Solo Songs Barbara Bonney / Susan Gritton / Charles Daniels / Roger Covey-Crump / James Bowman / Michael George / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman' (The New York Times) |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Barbara Haveman, Claudia Mahnke, Brandon Jovanovich, Gerhard Siegel, Thomas Bauer, Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker) / Kartäuserkantorei Köln [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Excellent performances throughout from orchestra, soloists and choruses - rarely have the lush textures of Schoenberg's late-Romantic cantata sounded this fresh." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Choral) |
STOJOWSKI / WIENIAWSKI
Stojowski / Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Bartłomiej Nizioł (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 20 / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] The music of Zygmunt Stojowski has yet to benefit from the renaissance enjoyed by other Polish composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His violin concerto - enthusiastically received at its premiere - is here revivified... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Symphony in D minor / Symphony in B flat major BBC National Chorus of Wales, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "the present release can be confidently recommended for the refined and subtle playing of the BBC NOW and a recording that achieves an ideal balance between textural clarity and Romantic warmth." BBC Music |
HONEGGER
Une Cantate de NoAl and other orchestral works BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] 'Here is an excellent introduction to a still underrated composer … In the Concerto, Alban Gerhardt ranges from the seductive to the sensational' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE DISC OF THE MONTH |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "...it's not often you hear cries of "encore" after a Bruckner symphony, but I would gladly have heard this one repeated in full' (The Guardian) |
STRAVINSKY
Jeu de cartes, Agon & Orpheus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "With such purposeful, sensitive conducting and such assured playing, this can be very warmly recommended' (International Record Review) |
