GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ottone, Re Di Germania The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2013 ] Handel's Ottone was one of the most popular operas of the composer's career, with 34 known performances during his lifetime, beaten only by the 53 performances of Rinaldo. |
HANDEL
Essential Handel The King's Consort / Robert King, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] This new budget-price compilation disc brings together twenty favourite tracks from The King's Consort's acclaimed Handel recordings. |
PURCELL
The Complete Odes and Welcome Songs James Bowman (countertenor) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) Gillian Fisher (soprano) / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion Purcell Complete Edition / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2010 ] 'Every disc is such a treasure-house of wonderful invention that the whole set must be an irresistable temptation' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide) |
PURCELL
The Complete Sacred Music (The Complete Anthems and Services) Michael George (bass) James Bowman (countertenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) etc / New College Choir Oxford / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 11 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'The performances from The King's Consort and its Choir, the Choir of New College and a starry line-up of soloists have such qualities of concentration and precision in their engagement with the music' (BBC Music Magazine) |
GIOVANNI & ANDREA GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI & OTHERS
Lo Sposalizio: the wedding of Venice to the sea The King's Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "The music is glorious, the performances exemplary, the sense of occasion overwhelming … another marvellous concept from Robert King and his redoubtable consort, here breathtakingly recreating the celebrations which would have taken place on... |
JOHANN SCHELLE
Sacred Music The King's Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 'This important recording is fine proof of Schelle's imagination and invention … Robert King should be congratulated for an outstanding espousal of another of Bach's forebears' (Early Music Review) |
King's Consort/Bowman/George
Handel:deborah [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/1993 ] |
King's Consort/King
Handel:joseph & His Brethr [ Hyperion / 3 CD ] |
King's Consort/King
Kuhnau: Sacred Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] |
King's Consort/King
Monteverdi: Sacred Music 3 [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] |
King's Consort/King
Purcell:cpte.Odes Vol.6 [ Hyperion / CD ] |
King's Consort/King
Purcell;Odes+Welcome Songs [ Hyperion / CD ] |
King's Consort/King
Purcell:secular Songs Vol.3 [ Hyperion / CD ] |
King's Consort/King
Rzewski:the People United..... [ Hyperion / CD ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: 3 Violin Sonatas Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] 'Subtle enough to suggest that for both artists these performances were a revelatory voyage of discovery' (Gramophone) |
JONATHAN HARVEY
Choral Works (Incls 'Ashes Dance Back') Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putnins, James Wood, conductors [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "both Ashes and Awakening are visionary pieces, and have the makings of modern masterpieces. They require, and will undoubtedly repay, repeated listening. A magnificent disc, superbly performed and recorded, and a magnificent argument for the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
All In The April Evening Laudibus / Michael Brewer [ Hyperion Helios / CD ] 'This is a delightfully nostalgic trip through English part-singing from the first half of the 20th century. The programme is deftly chosen and Laudibus give heart-warming accounts' (BBC Music Magazine) |
WALTHEW / PANUFNIK / BANTOCK / BAX / HINDEMITH / SCHUMAN / etc
Voyage of a sea-god Laurence Perkins (bassoon) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Michael Hancock (piano) & others [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Beginning in 1900 with Richard Henry Walthew and ending in 1999 with David Bedford, the intrepid musical journey undertaken by Laurence Perkins and friends celebrates the extraordinary versatility of the twentieth-century bassoon. |
Laurence Perkins, bassoon, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
The Playful Pachyderm (Includes 'Funeral March of a Marionette' (Gounod) & Romance (Elgar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2005 ] 'Perkins is a compelling advocate of the instrument, not only in his painstaking work as orchestrator and arranger, and his enthusiastic and well-researched booklet notes, but most of all in his playing … This is a delightful disc which will be of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
18th Century Portuguese Love Songs L'Avventura London, Zak Ozmo [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] "L'Avventura's performances tend towards the genteel, suggesting decorous courtly soirees rather than raunchy street theatre...These are, in short, charming accounts" (BBC Music) |