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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 'Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to intimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her' (BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Vocal WINNER) |
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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) |
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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) |
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SCHWANTNER
Orchestral Music Anne Akiko Meyers (violin) Gregory Hustis (horn) James Diaz (organ) / Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Andrew Litton [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] 'Andrew Litton's excellent Dallas Symphony Orchestra does full justice to all the works … And the three soloists for whom the later pieces were written could hardly be bettered' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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VASKS / WEILL
Violin Concertos Anthony Marwood, violin / Academy of St. Martin in the Field [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Nov/2005 ] 'Anthony Marwood has championed the Vasks over a number of years and delivers a wonderfully moving and intense performance of the solo part. The strings of the ASMF are responsive partners … Their colleagues in the wind, brass and percussion... |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations Anthony Marwood (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "Hyperion becomes not only my overall choice for the coupling but a very strong contender in all the individual works." MusicWeb |
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SCHUMANN
Violin Sonatas / Three Romances Anthony Marwood (violin) Susan Tombes (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2001 ] 'The best performances of these pieces on disc' (Gramophone) |
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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) |
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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 |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
St Nicolas / Hymn to St Cecilia Anthony Rolf Johnson (tenor) Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "A fresh and atmospheric account of Britten's colourful cantata" Penguin Guide |
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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 *** |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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LISZT
Three Funeral Odes / from the Cradle to the Grave / etc BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] As part of Liszt's anniversary year Hyperion turns to some of the composer's most underrecorded and underperformed works. Liszt's piano music is so much in the foreground that his works for orchestra have been almost forgotten. Here we present a... |