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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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BRITTEN
The Five Canticles / Purcell realizations Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Chance, Alan Opie, Roger Vignoles, etc [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Sioned Williams (harp) & Michael Thompson (horn) |
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CAROLINE NORTON / MAUDE VALERIE WHITE / LIZA LEHMANN / and others
In praise of Woman (English women composers) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] PICK OF THE YEAR, CD REVIEW GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The English Hymn Vol 2: 'Jerusalem the Golden' - Great Hymn Tunes of the 19th Century Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'Delivered with crisp, evocative conviction' (Classic FM Magazine) After the success of Volume 1 (CDP12101, issued November 1999) this volume surveys some of the great hymn tunes of the 19th century. With many favourites such as Praise my soul,... |
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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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ROSLAVETS
Chamber Symphony / In the hours of the New Moon BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] "A major new discovery from a much-maligned Soviet composer. Often spoken of as a fast-rising young star, Ilan Volkov will win many friends here for the Russian composer Nikolay Roslavets, a figure whose early success was countered when he later fell... |
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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... |
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ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: The Four Symphonies BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jean-Yves Ossonce [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] 'Superb performances by Ossonce and his Scottish players' (American Record Guide) |
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ERIK CHISHOLM
Chisholm: Violin Concerto & Dance Suite BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] A bracing excursion to the Indian subcontinent via the Scottish Highlands: the compelling force of Scottish Modernism that is Erik Chisholm makes a welcome reappearance on Hyperion. Matthew Trusler and Danny Driver are the committed soloists in... |
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WILLIAM WALLACE
Creation Symphony & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "It is incredible that a composer of this strength has been so overlooked. On the evidence of this recording alone he should be treated as a national treasure" (The Scotsman) |
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ALEXANDER MacKENZIE
Orchestral Music (incls The Cricket On The Hearth Op. 62 - Overture) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "[A] splendid disc. The performances … are exemplary, giving Mackenzie's music the best possible opportunity to speak for itself" (The Times) |