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DONALD SWANN
Swann: Songs Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "this is a continually fascinating and diverse selection...The real star of the show is Christopher Glynn, for whom the project has evidently been a labour of love." Gramophone |
FAURE
'La Chanson d'Eve' and other songs Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Oct/2001 ] PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
MAHLER
Songs of Youth (incl Lieder und Gesange aus dem Jugendzeit) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] 'Superb. A heart-warming record' - Penguin Stereo Record Guide |
GLUCK / HANDEL / PURCELL / MOZART / MAHLER / BACH / etc
Dame Janet Baker: A Celebration - Great recordings on Philips, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, & Hyperion Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) with Gerald Moore, Geoffrey Parsons, Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra & others [ Decca / 21 CD Box Set - released 8/Dec/2023 ] Dame Janet Baker is an artist who enjoyed seldom-matched success in the concert and recital halls as well as in the opera house - not to mention on disc. She could confidently traverse the entire territory between the well-thumbed volumes of arie... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op102 (Nos. 1 & 2) & Variations Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) / Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] 'Absorbing interpretations, where the two players instinctively click and the music comes across with vibrancy, sensitivity and a galvanising unanimity of purpose' (The Daily Telegraph) |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: The 18 Études Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] "In essence, Driver's Ligeti Études complement rather than compete with Aimard and Ullén, and that's high praise." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2021 |
C. P. E. BACH
Keyboard Sonatas Vol 2 Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Danny Driver is intimately in touch with the fluctuations of the musical language....His feel for the harmonic explorations in the slow movement [of the E major Sonata] and the rhythmic mischievousness of the finale likewise echoes the music's... |
SCHUMANN
Novelletten / Nachtstücke Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "This is, in short, engaging and sophisticated playing with a fine mix of care and spontaneity." (BBC Music) |
BENJAMIN DALE
Piano Music Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] The monumental Piano Sonata in D minor was composed by a young Benjamin Dale while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Dale's contemporaries included the burgeoning composer-pianists Arnold Bax and York Bowen. |
MILY BALAKIREV
Balakirev: Piano Sonata & other works Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "Bravo to Hyperion for championing this music and to Driver for playing it with such sensitivity, polish and élan" (The Daily Telegraph) |
AMY BEACH / CECILE CHAMINADE / DOROTHY HOWELL
Beach, Chaminade & Howell - Piano Concertos Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 70 / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] "but even more appealing is Cécile Chaminade's Concertstück in the same key as the Beach...In Driver's hands it is enchanting." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Concerto |
ERIK CHISHOLM
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Chishom's First Concerto is] full of provocative rhythm and utterly devoid of cliche. His second is even more elaborate, drawing its inspiration from the beguiling ragas of Hindustan, their evocative intervals and sensuous, twisting melodies... |
KODALY
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Dante Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Feb/2014 ] The Dante Quartet, winners of the BBC Music Magazine Award for their album of Franck and Fauré, respond to this music with dancing energy and folkloric simplicity. |
RAVEL / DEBUSSY
String Quartets Dante Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "...the way melodies seem to emerge subtly from the texture before retreating back into it [in the Debussy] is most appealing...The Ravel Quartet, too, is unfailingly musical." Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 |
FLOR PEETERS
Flor Peeters: Organ Music D'Arcy Trinkwon (Marcussen organ of Tonbridge School Chapel) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] "Although it must be a daunting challenge to reduce Peeters's vast organ output down to a 75 minute representative selection, Trinkwon has managed successfully to cover most angles...the playing is mostly top-notch, with the Tonbridge Marcussen... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trios Dartington Piano Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] 'I'm sure no-one would have been happier to find two such engaging performances side by side than the two ladies themselves' (Gramophone) |
FRANK BRIDGE
Piano Trios & Piano Quartet The Dartington Piano Trio (with Patrick Ireland, viola) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2001 ] 'A very worthwhile reissue.' BBC-Music |
WIDOR
Fifth Symphony David Hill playing the Organ of Westminster Cathedral [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] 'Very thrilling. An irresistible sound' - BBC Record Review |
LOUIS VIERNE
Symphony No 2 in E minor / Les Angalus Op 57 David Hill (Westminster Cathedral organ) / Gordon Jones (baritone) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'Lovers of French late-Romantic organ music are well served by this disc made in 1987 when David Hill was in charge of the music at Westminster Cathedral and brilliantly revivfied it' (BBC Music Magazine) |
ARVO PART
Part: Triodion David James (countertenor) Christopher Bowers Broadbent (organ) / Polyphony / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "The choir's pursuit of perfection ideally complements the sheer beauty of the music" Classic FM Magazine |
