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CONSTANT LAMBERT
Lambert: The Rio Grande / Summer's Last Will and Testament / etc Sally Burgess (mezzo) William Shimell (baritone) Jack Gibbons (piano) / English Northern Sinfonia / David Lloyd-Jones [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - RECORD OF THE YEAR, THE INDEPENDENT GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
38 Preludes from the two sets of Twenty-four Preludes in all the keys for pianoforte, Op 163 & Op 179 Sam Haywood (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Stanford retained an enthusiasm for the music of Bach throughout his life, and the two sets of 'Twenty-four Preludes in all the keys for pianoforte' are a clear homage to JSB's own '48'. Sam Haywood, making his second recording for Hyperion,... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 4 Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] "[Sasha Cooke's] even, expressive voice is equal to all technical demands and rises to tremendous intensity for 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass' while offering a deeply considered account of 'Sei still'" (BBC Music) |
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DOHNANYI
Piano Quintet No 1 / Serenade for String Trio / etc The Schubert Ensemble of London [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "This excellent group plays with calm confidence throughout and features some notably silvery violin tone. A delightful disc" (Hi-Fi News) |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
'Eroica' Variations / 'Handel' Variations Seta Tanyel, piano [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Jan/2005 ] This very fine performance of two of the great sets of piano variations of the nineteenth century is the final issue in the series of Seta Tanyel recordings we have taken over from the former Collins Classics catalogue. It follows her highly... |
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SCHARWENKA
Piano Music Volume 1 Seta Tanyel (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] piano music from the romantic period - the first of four |
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SCHARWENKA
Piano Music Volume 4 (Incls Four Polish Dances) Seta Tanyel (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] '… brimful with alert character and beauty whilst the two piano pieces are delightful in their raucous melodies … briliantly done by Tanyel' (Classical Net Review) |
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EDWARD MacDOWELL
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Second Modern Suite Op 14 for solo piano Seta Tanyel (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 25 / CD - released 26/Mar/2001 ] '[Tanyel] can totally identify with this kind of post-Lisztian lyric bravura style' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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STENHAMMAR
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Seta Tanyel (piano) / Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 49 / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] The original orchestration of Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No 1 is recorded here: a version which was long thought lost when the publishers were bombed during the second world war. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Serenade' Op 70 No 3) Simon Bode (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "His tone is sweet and gently rounded, his diction crystal-clear, his phrasing always thoughtful. Spinning a rapt, sustained lined, he movingly catches the Brahmsian twilit melancholy of 'Abenddammerung'...'Wiegenlied', too, is as dulcet as you could |
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JOSEPH RHEINBERGER / BERNHARD SCHOLZ
Rheinberger / Scholz: Piano Concertos Simon Callaghan (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon (conductor) [ Hyperion The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 76 / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] 'The Rheinberger Concerto sets off in a mood of confident pomp..the supremely gifted Ben Gernon coaxes terrifically colourful playing from the BBC Scottish SO' (Gramophone) |
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ROGER SACDEVERELL COKE
Coke: Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 5 Simon Callaghan (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 78 / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] The late Romanticism of Roger Sacheverell Coke will appeal to anyone who enjoys Rachmaninov or Delius, Grainger or Scriabin. If that sounds an intriguingly eclectic mix, Coke establishes his own distinctive voice, and this is an important addition to... |
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CARL REINECKE / EMIL VON SAUER
Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen / Modestas Pitrėnas [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/May/2024 ] This is the fourth Romantic Piano Concerto album from Simon Callaghan, and that combination of talents which made his first three so successful - not least a flair for exploring the neglected byways of the Romantic repertoire, and the technique and... |
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STEPHEN HOUGH
Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita Sir Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Polymath Sir Stephen Hough has a growing reputation as a composer of chamber, choral and above all solo piano music with four sonatas and a constellation of dazzling arrangements to his name. This album presents the premiere recording of his... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
The Complete String Quartets / Piano Trio No 2 / String Quintet St Petersburg String Quartet [ Hyperion / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'These players approach Shostakovich's mighty cycle with a natural authority that's unanswerable, along with tireless precision and virtuosity, plus a wonderful command of the music's way of switching between sunlight and shadow when you least expect... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet no.1, Piano Quintet & Piano Trio no.2 St. Petersburg String Quartet with Igor Uryash (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] "With a suburb recording to boot, this release provides an extremely fitting conclusion to the St Petersburg's excellent Shostakovich cycle. I have no hestitation in recommending the performance of the First Quartet." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the... |
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MAHLER
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Stephan Genz (baritone) & Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jan/2008 ] 'The charm of Mahler's Lieder-composing style - so close to Schubert's - comes across beautifully. Stephan Genz is more than just a very fine singer: his precision, sensitivity and range of imagination proclaim him a true successor to the great... |
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SCRIABIN
The Early Scriabin Stephen Coombs (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] 'A programme of fascinating rarities played with a touching sensitivity and affection … This record is a most impressive achievement, as beautiful in sound as it is endlessly thought-provoking' (Gramophone) |
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GLAZUNOV
Piano Music Vol 2 (Incls Three Etudes, Op 31 & Nocturne, Op 37) Stephen Coombs (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] "Superb, in a word. The two volumes of Glazunov Piano Music should be mandatory purchases for all pianists and all lovers of the Russian Romantics." (MusicWeb May 2006) |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Piano Music Vol 3: Preludes and Fugues Stephen Coombs (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] 'When in the past we have written that Glazunov is not at his best in his piano music we obviously did not have the benefit of such persuasive advocacy as this' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |