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GODOWSKY
Strauss transcriptions & other waltzes Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "Hamelin is a seasoned and subtle orchestrator at the piano...Some of Hamelin's most poetic, lyrically inspired playing on disc. All told, a stellar achievement, graced by Hyperion's close-up yet ample engineering' (Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2008) |
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ANTON RUBINSTEIN / XAVER SCHARWENKA
Rubinstein/Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No.4 / Piano Concerto No.1 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 38 / CD - released 2/Oct/2005 ] "This splendidly engineered disc is a crown jewel both in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series and in Hamelin's standard-setting discography. Bravo!" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Marc-André Hamelin has proved himself-in three lauded volumes of Haydn's piano sonatas-to be a formidable Haydn pianist, combining style, exuberance and dazzling technique with a palpable sense of joy in the music. |
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MAX REGER
Reger: Piano Concerto in E minor [with Richard Strauss - Burleske] Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 53 / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "While an easy majority of pianists would run for cover when faced with such sheerly physical demands, Hamelin relishes every challenge, clarifying and refining Reger's potential for opacity at every point." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Concerto) |
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JOSEPH KORNGOLD / JOSEPH MARX
Korngold: Piano Concerto / Marx: Romantisches Klavierkonzert in E Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Scottish Symphony, Vanska [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 18 / CD - released 20/Jun/2000 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE - 'All the most wildly romantic concertos you can think of rolled into one huge pianistic feat' (Gramophone) |
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SCHUMANN
Kerner Lieder & Liederkreis Margaret Price (soprano) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'An outstanding Helios CD … singing and playing of the highest order' (Gramophone) |
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TRADITIONAL
Marie McLaughlin - Songs of Scotland Marie McLaughlin (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) Isobel Frayling-Cork (clarsach) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] "McLaughlin sings with passionate intensity, and her voice has all the colors of the rainbow for these widely varying songs … An album to treasure'" Fanfare |
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CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Fantaisie in A flat major Op. 62 Markus Becker (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 55 / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Charles-Marie Widor was born in Lyon to a family of organ builders and consequently became an organist of great skill and an assistant to Camille Saint-Saëns at La Madeleine in Paris at the age of twenty-four. |
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JADASSOHN / DRAESKE
Piano Concertos Markus Becker (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Michael Sanderling (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 47 / CD - released 28/Feb/2009 ] 'These pieces, which burst with … memorable tunes and lashings of showy arpeggios, are played with admirable swagger by Markus Becker and are a welcome addition to Hyperion's exhaustive study of the Romantic Piano Concerto' (The Observer) |
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NIELSEN
The Complete Piano Music Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Hyperion gives him vivid and natural recorded sound and there are outstanding notes by Daniel Grimley" (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice July 2008) |
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ERNO DOHNANYI
The Complete solo piano music Vol 1 Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The auspices are good even before you press the play button...The Four Rhapsodies, while having almost identical timings to Roscoe's first-rate earlier performances, are now more subtly characterised...this is a particularly happy start to the... |
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ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music - Volume 4 Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] With this fourth volume-a collection in which Dohnányi pays homage to the styles and traditions of his great composer-pianist predecessors- Martin Roscoe brings his complete survey to a dazzling conclusio |
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SOMERVELL / COWEN
Piano Concertos Martin Roscoe (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martin Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 54 / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Martin Roscoe does an impressive job with the fistfuls of notes." (The Guardian) |
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ROBERT FUCHS / FRIEDRICH KIEL
Piano Concertos Martin Roscoe (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 31 / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] Volume 31 of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series features the only concertos written by Robert Fuchs and Friedrich Kiel. Both were popular and prolific composers during the 19th century, their music reflecting the traditionalist style inspired... |
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STENHAMMAR
Piano Music (Incls 'Piano Sonata in A flat major, Op 12') Martin SturfANlt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] Stockholm-born Wilhelm Stenhammar was the most outstanding musical personality in Sweden of his time. As a pianist he brought high-quality music-making to audiences throughout the country through several hundred solo recitals and chamber music concerts. |
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WIKLUND
Piano Concertos Martin Sturfält (piano)/ Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 57 / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] Volume 57 in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series turns up another 'discovery': the music of Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund. These little-known but lusciously tuneful works are characterized by big-boned, symphonic gestures reminiscent of... |
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GODARD BOELLMANN
Cello Sonatas Mats Lidstrom (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Unfamiliar yet instantly captivating repertoire leaves you wondering why you'd never heard this music before |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 Matthew Polenzani (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "This auspicious inauguration of the series whets the appetite for more." (International Record Review) |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ / ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Albeniz / Granados: Piano Concertos Melani Mestre (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 65 / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albéniz Concierto fantástico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the... |
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ROSSINI
Soiraes musicales Miah Persson (soprano) Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano) Bruce Ford (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Rossini's Soirées musicales and Péchés de vieillesse were the musical fruits of salon evenings held weekly in his Parisian home. Elegant, charming and often delicately ironic, these songs for various voices are the perfect exemplar of 'salon music',... |