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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / etc Michael Collins (clarinet) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Robin O'Neill, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] 'Michael Collins … repeats the success of his disc of Nos 1 and 2 with elegantly phrased melodies, immaculate passagework and wondurously even trills.' (BBC Music Magazine five stars) |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / STRAUSS / FAURE / etc
Of ladies and love Michael Schade (tenor) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Sep/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (October 2002) |
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JOHN IRELAND
The Songs of John Ireland Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire" (Hi-Fi News) |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "Performances characterised by admirable technical fluency and innate musical quality" The Strad |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'Uniformly fine, sensitive and idiomatic playing and sound that alternately carresses and thunders as the music requires, this disc is a bargain even at Hyperion's full imported-from-England price. Of all these fine works it would be impossible to... |
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GRECHANINOV
Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] 'Lovely and fresh-sounding tonal works full of emotional tune-spinning' (Audiophile) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K310-311 & 330-333 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Angela Hewitt's voyage of discovery through Mozart's piano sonatas is proving a joy, the works sounding newly minted in vital, alert accounts which respect their scale and sensibility while revealing influences of Mozart's orchestral and concerto... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The complete multipiano concertos MultiPiano Ensemble, English Chamber Orchestra [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] The Larghetto and Allegro in E flat major is mature Mozart-contemporary with Idomeneo and Die Entführung-but remains incomplete. Tomer Lev has finished the job brilliantly, making it the perfect companion for Mozart's official concertos for two and... |
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SERGE BORTKIEWICZ
Bortkiewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 & other works Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] "This is a quite superb CD, and one that I simply couldn't put down. The playing is absolutely first class." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month March 2016) |
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J. S. BACH
Piano Transcriptions Vol. 10 (complete Bach transcriptions by Saint-Saens) Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] Hyperion's Bach Transcriptions series shows Bach through the fascinating prism of the Romantic musical mind. This latest volume presents the complete transcriptions by Saint-Saëns, and the programme is interspersed with transcriptions by the elder... |
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PANCHO VLADIGEROV
Vladigerov: Exotic preludes & Impressions Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] "Vlaeva's mind, fingers and soul totally embrace Vladigerov's idiom. Her ear for tone colour and her innate sense of controlled Romanticism are exactly what this repertoire needs." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2021 |
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SCHUMANN
Chamber Music (Incls Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor) Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "how thoroughly each one of these performers warms to his or her allotted task (perhaps 'role' would be a better word), though it's violinist Marianne Thorsen and pianist Ian Brown in the Sonata who steal the show. It makes a superb finale to a disc... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2010 ] The complete String Quintets is a enchanting body of chamber music, recorded here in a 3-disc set by the peerless Nash Ensemble. |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ERICH KORGOLD
Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets Nash Ensemble / David Lloyd-Jones [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The teenage Korngold possessed a compositional fluency and maturity which belied his youth; in contrast, Tchaikovsky feared-wholly unjustifiably-his own creative powers to be on the wane when writing Souvenir de Florence. |
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WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER
Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs The Nash Ensemble with John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'These modest miniatures reveal a composer who was able, not only to invent memorable ideas, but to do some artful things with them'- The Sunday Times |
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ARNOLD BAX
Chamber Music The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/May/2005 ] 'Performances of exemplary quality' - The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
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MAX BRUCH
Bruch: String Quintets & Octet The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Mar/2017 ] "Together, these performances go to the top of a not exactly crowded field; in fact his disc needs to be heard by everyone who loves German Romantic chamber music." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
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JOSEF SUK
Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet in A minor Op 1) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] 'The Nash Ensemble plays with all its customary skill and insight, highlighted by the remarkable pianism of Ian Brown' (Classic FM Magazine) |
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JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] The colourful folk melodies and rhythms of Spain knit seamlessly with twentieth-century French compositional sophistication in Joaquín Turina's chamber works. Born in Seville, Andalucia, the young composer went to study in Paris in 1905, where he was... |
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WALTON
Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet & Violin Sonata) The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Oct/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Nov 2002) |