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BENNETT / BLISS / BRITTEN / DYSON / ELGAR / MacMILLAN / etc
Hymns to Saint Cecilia Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2017 ] "If the handful of soprano solos spread across the disc are anything to go by, Gough has an exceptional group of singers here. They are impressively responsive" Gramophone |
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SIR JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: String Quartets Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] "Excellent throughout, the Royal Quartet impart a brittle edge to the sound that brings MacMillan's quartets closer to mid-century European modernists such as Lutosławski and Penderecki. But there are moments of intense, lyric beauty here too." Gramo |
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SZYMANSKI / MYKIETYN
Music for string quartet Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] The official titles of the works performed here are not helpful: what they conceal are the most extraordinary soundworlds from two composers at the vanguard of the contemporary Polish music scene, and the magicians of the Royal String Quartet summon... |
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PENDERECKI / LUTOSLAWSKI
String Quartets Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 7 Ruby Hughes (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Günter Haumer (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2017 ] "Ruby Hughes's bright soprano is appealing" Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Motets Philip Salmon (ten), Graham Chambers, Jeremy Gough, Martin Kelly, Christopher Stearn (trom), Thomas Trotter (organ) / Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD ] 'A superb record. Exploring these pieces is a moving experience when the performances are as superlative as these. Very strongly recommended. Record of the Month' (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets The Salomon Quartet / Simon Whistler (viola) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 22/May/2005 ] 'Gorgeous performances of some of Mozart's chamber masterworks. Highly recommended' - Classical CD Scout |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Six 'Haydn' String Quartets [special price] Salomon String Quartet [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'Admirers of the Salomon Quartet's 'authentic' approach to Mozart will be glad to learn that their versions of the 'Haydn' Quartets ... are now available in a 3-CD boxed set at a slightly reduced price' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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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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GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Requiem & other sacred music Sarah Yanovitch (soprano) Edmund Milly (bass) Nola Richardson (soprano) / Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "Edmund Milly has just the cantor-like voice Faure specified, with no boom or bluster, and the top choral parts are clear and bell-like." BBC Music |
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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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RAUTAVAARA
Choral Music (Incls 'Magnificat') Schola Cantorum of Oxford / James Burton [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "From the vibrancy of the very first track, the lively imagination of Rautavaara's writing for voices, the pungent palette of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, and the clarity and spatial excitement of this record are immediately apparent." BBC Music... |
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SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT and others
Children of our time: new choral works Schola Cantorum of Oxford / Jeremy Summerly [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'This disc offers considerable rewards in an admittedly parochial field, and also preserves a delectable snap-shot of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford on outstanding form, over a decade ago' (International Record Review) |
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Schubert
Hyperion Ed Collection [ CD ] |
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BEETHOVEN
The Creatures of Prometheus Op. 43 Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] 'A dashing performance of unreasonably neglected music... superb' - Classic CD |
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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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BLISS / BRITTEN / HOLST
English Choral Music Shirley Minty (mezzo) Martyn Hill (tenor) Holst Singers / Hilary Wetton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Jan 2002)- "Never tentative or imprecise, the voices blend beautifully. The upper voices in particular shine with a luminous quality, and are wonderfully fast and flexible." |