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SMETANA / JANACEK
String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] A second new album this year from the much-fêted Takács Quartet presents three popular string quartets from Czechoslovakia. Janáček's two quartets share with Smetana's No 1 narrative undercurrents, and draw from our four players performances of... |
EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber / GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "...They allow every passionate detail to come across yet preserve a sense of nobility and innate grace that I always associate with Dohnányi." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Chamber |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14 (with Debussy - String Quartet in G minor) Takács Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2016 ] Franck's Piano Quintet and Debussy's String Quartet make an apt and unusual coupling, each work its composer's only, unsurpassable, contribution to the genre. Both receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet.. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 Takács Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "Right from the very first bar I felt that these were going to be fine performances of these two Shostakovich works. The first movement of Quartet No.2 is played with vigour and forward thrust." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2015) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Takacs Quartet with Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] 'The Takács Quartet bring a huge sense of enjoyment to both the Piano Quintet and the String Quartet Op 51 No 2, and it's clear that this chamber music is being revelled in by its players as much as its listeners. Stephen Hough's playing -... |
BUSONI / RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concertos Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 16 / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender returns to the Romantic Violin Concerto series having dazzled the critics with her 'great lyrical force and tremendous sense of drama' in her recording of the Reger concerto. Here she appears with Hyperion house... |
MAX REGER
Reger: Violin Concerto in A / Two Romances Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original" BBC Music Five Stars |
RESPIGHI
Violin works {incls violin sonatas) Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Peter Nagy (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "a revelatory programme, performed with rare panache." Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Violin Sonatas Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Péter Nagy (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Becker-Bender and Péter Nagy are well matched and give thoroughly forthright performances of real integrity, vitality and intelligence." MusicWeb International, 22nd January 2014 |
FRIEDRICH KALKBRENNER
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra / Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Hyperion Great Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 41 / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] 'Kalkbrenner's First Concerto offers a truly beautiful and atmospheric slow movement...it would be a boring world if we couldn't find an hour to listen to these musical layer cakes from a bygone age' (Pianist: Recommended) |
KARLOWICZ / MOSZKOWSKI
Violin Concertos Tasmin Little (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 4 / CD - released 12/May/2004 ] The fourth volume in the burgeoning 'Romantic Violin Concerto' series. The central work on the disc is Moritz Moszkowski's C major Violin Concerto, a full-blooded work which demands exceptional virtuosity. Martyn Brabbins again leads the BBC Scottish... |
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J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'This disc captures all the warmth and naturalness which this great artist shows in live recitals' (BBC Music Magazine) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2005 ] 'The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity' - Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A / Clarinet Quintet in A Thea King (basset clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate / Gabrieli String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE 'Winning performances. Excellent recording' (Penguin Guide) |
TAUSCH / SUSSMAYR
Double Clarinet Concertos / Concerto Movement Thea King (clarinet, basset clarinet) Nicholas Bucknall (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Leopold Hager (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] 'I can't imagine a more beguiling account of the music and every lover of the clarinet will want to have this CD' - Gramophone |
STANFORD / FINZI
Clarinet Concertos Thea King (clarinet) Philharmonia Orchestra / Alun Francis [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jun/2001 ] 'The original release of these concertos was long overdue and unanimously praised on both sides of the Atlantic. Its re-emergence at a moderate price is not only welcome but also deserving of high praise and an appropriate pedestal in our Classical... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition: Schiller Settings Thomas Allen (baritone) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 'Thomas Alen is in commanding form, singing with unforced beauty of tone and intelligent, unobtrusive attention to the words' (Classic CD) |
