London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble / Christopher Larkin
Antique Brasses [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Jun/2000 ] 'some exquisite lyrical playing, with extraordinary beautiful tone colours' (Early Music Review) |
IVES / BARBER / HARRIS / THOMSON / COWELL
From the Steeples and the Mountains The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble / Christopher Larkin (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'The brass playing throughout is vividly expert and the recording is splendidly real' (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 64 The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] "The London Haydn Quartet's chronological survey of the composer's quartets is nearing its completion: the most civilised music, delivered with immaculate technique, urbane humanity and perfect period manners." Sunday Times |
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 76 The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] The summit of Haydn's quartet-writing, and of the classical string quartet medium itself. The 'Emperor', 'Fifths' and 'Sunrise' may be the best known of the six-as so often with those works by Haydn which have nicknames-but the others are every bit... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 20 'Sun' (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - Awards Issue 2011 - "their performances often seem strikingly austere, and will not be to all tastes; they sometimes have a rawness that harks back to the early hair-shirt days of the period-instrument... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 Nos. 1-6 (complete) [2 CDs] The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Christmas The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] A celebration of Christmas from the Nativity through to Candlemas, in music from across sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance polyphony at its finest. |
GIOVANNI & ANDREA GABRIELI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI / GIACOMO FINETTI & OTHERS
Sacred treasures of Venice - Sacred motets from the Golden Age of Venetian polyphony The London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Feb/2024 ] It's tempting to imagine that this is how the music might have sounded four centuries ago in the glorious surroundings of St Mark's. Certainly, any comparisons are unlikely to be to the disadvantage of these exceptional young singers. |
VICTOR de SABATA
Orchestral works: La notte di Platon, Gethsemani, Juventus London Philharmonic Orchestra / Aldo Ceccato [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] 'Hyperion once again has us in its debt with its recovery of scores long lost from view … immensely attractive as well as impressively written. I am in no doubt that they deserve to be in the regular repertoire' (The Times). |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Complete Music for Winds London Winds / Michael Collins [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 22/Jan/2004 ] 'London Winds are second to none in terms of technical accomplishment, expressive commitment and warmth of timbre' (BBC Music Magazine) |
Lott/Bickley/Bostridge/Varcoe
Hahn:french Songs [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
Lott/Johnson
Hyperion Schubert Edit.19 [ Hyperion / CD ] |
Lott/Schreier/Johnson
Wolf:italian Songbook [ Hyperion / CD ] |
Lowbury Piano Trio
Simpson:sonata & Trio [ Hyperion / CD ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Humoreske & Blumenstück Luca Buratto (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] Hyperion welcomes 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto to the label, a pianist whose 'fiery imagination and finesse' (Musical America) are perfectly suited to the demands of this all-Schumann programme. Despite its unassuming title, the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 4 Lucy Crowe (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) with Jennifer France (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] "In wonderful voice throughout, Crowe very much makes this repertory her own. Ascents into the stratospheres are all beautifully and securely accomplished, and those long melismas are tautly controlled and always expressive, never vacuous" Gramophone |
ARENSKY
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (with Taneyev-Suite de concert, Op 28) lya Gringolts (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 7 / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] This disc juxtaposes two significant Russian works for violin and orchestra, each written by a composer with a close relationship to Tchaikovsky, and each dedicated to the great violinist and pedagogue Leopold Auer. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Lydia Teuscher, Ida Falk Winland, Tim Mead, Samuel Boden, Neal Davies / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Cohen's rejection of the generic, within a grand and ravishing overview, is what propels an overwhelming sense here that this reading deserves to be taken very seriously...The work infrequently speaks with such gracefulness, freedom or conviction." |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
La Folia Lynn Dawson (soprano) / The Purcell Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] 'My very favourite...their easy rapport and the stylishness of her singing are quite unforgettable, and Woolley's stunning performance...wants for nothing' (Gramophone) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Catherine Denley (contralto) David James (counter-tenor) Maldwyn Davies (tenor) Michael George (bass) / Sixteen / Christophers [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 25/May/2005 ] 'The performance is one of extraordinary quality. Unequivocally recommended' (The Sydney Sun Herald) |