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LOUIS SPOHR
Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "The music itself is pleasant enough, if unremarkable, sometimes echoing Beethoven (the Pastoral Symphony especially in the Ninth), and showing affinities with Mendelssohn and Schumann elsewhere; the performances are first rate, and the solo horn... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Symphonies 3 & 6 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Howard Shelley's fascinating series of Spohr's symphonies continues to inspire interest and delight in this underrated composer. |
LOUIS SPOHR
Symphonies 4 & 5 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] In this second volume of Spohr's symphonies, Howard Shelley and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana continue their exploration of this enjoyable and little-known repertoire. Symphony No 4 was quickly acclaimed as the composer's symphonic... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Symphonies 8 & 10 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "These performances - crisp, clear and affectionate - are well recorded and make for pleasing listening, not least Spohr's symphonic swan-song...Anyone new to Spohr's symphonies would do well to start here." (International Record Review) |
ANONYMOUS / ALANUS / DAMETT / BYTTERING / DUNSTABLE / etc
Beneath the northern star: The rise of English polyphony, 1270-1430 The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] This new album from The Orlando Consort charts the radical development of music between the late thirteenth and mid fifteenth centuries-the transition from what is at essence embellished chant to the extraordinary mathematical intricacies of... |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
A Burning Heart The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] A third collection of songs on the theme of courtly love by Guillaume de Machaut. Throughout this series, the members of The Orlando Consort are proving the most committed of guides to the music and mores of fourteenth-century France. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The dart of love The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Western music as we know it today-many individual lines of whatever nature combining in whatever manner into a single whole-has its roots in the fourteenth century, and most famously in the pioneering works of Guillaume de Machaut. Why he chose to... |
GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: Lament for Constantinople & other songs The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Early Music |
DUFAY / BINCHOIS / ISAAC / ANONYMOUS
The Florentine Renaissance The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] "..the Orlando Consort, whose diction is always immaculate...it is great to have it drawn together on one very generously filled disc." MusicWeb |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The Gentle Physician The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The 'gentle physician' ('dous mire') is Hope, invoked by Machaut as a consolation for the sufferings-and all-too occasional joys-of medieval courtly love, a world with which the 'Orlandos' are persuasively familiar. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Fortune's Child The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] "As we have come to expect with this group, the performances are eminently professional and poised. The duet Riches d'amour is marvellously tuned and lithe, and several of the solo pieces are sung with purity and precision." BBC Music |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Songs from Remede de Fortune The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] The story told by the 'Remede' may be familiar - episodes of courtly life and love in fourteenthcentury France - but from it Machaut develops a magisterial work exploring themes of philosophy, psychology and artistic endeavour. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Sovereign Beauty The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "if I hear a finer recording of 14th-century music this year I'll be very surprised." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: The Lion of nobility The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Early Music |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Songs from Le Voir Dit The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
STRAVINSKY
Complete music for piano & orchestra Steven Osborne (piano) with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "The outstanding work here is the Concerto for piano and wind instruments, played by Osborne in a way that finds wit in the rhythmic quirks while lending substance to the music's 18th-century references, so that it never sounds dry." Financial Times |
LINLEY
Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare The Parley of Instruments Choir & Orchestra / Paul Nicholson, director [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'This charming ode shows [Linley] sharing with Mozart something of that barely definable but unmistakable gift of melodic genius. The music is as beautiful as the text is absurd, full of shapely tunes that once heard linger hauntingly in the memory'... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lachrimae The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] 'The unique features, superb playing, recording and annotation make this an issue of unusual interest and irresistible attraction' (Gramophone) |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (harpsichord, spinet, chamber organ, director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'Classic accounts deserving a place in anyone's CD collection' (BBC Music Magazine) |
MATTHEW LOCKE
'the Broken Consort' The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'This disc is delicious' (American Record Guide) |
