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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: The Choice of Hercules (with Maurice Greene - Hearken Unto me, ye Holy Children) Susan Gritton (soprano) Alice Coote (mezzo) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) / King's Consort & Choir, Robert King [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2002 ] 'A delightful sequence of 24 brief numbers telling the story of Hercules making his choice between Virtue and Pleasure' (The Guardian) |
BOCCHERINI / D'ASTORGA
Stabat Mater Susan Gritton (soprano), Sarah Fox (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor) / The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Mar/2015 ] Boccherini wrote very little vocal music; however he left two settings of the Stabat mater. It was first set in 1781 for solo soprano and strings and then in 1800 for two sopranos and tenor, obviously influenced by the hugely-popular Pergolesi Stabat... |
CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Mr Abel's Fine Airs Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Editor's Choice - 'Until the release of this new recording the fascinating world of Abel's gamba music has been pretty much a closed book … Abel inclined towards simplicity and elegance, and Heinrich is always... |
TOBIAS HUME
Passion & Division Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "Ah, but the music! The melancholy of the opening and closing tracks is bewitching. Here, and elsewhere on the disc, Heinrich dramatically - often poetically - conveys Hume's deeply personal, seemingly reflective musical... |
BERWALD
Symphonies and Overtures Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Roy Goodman (conductor) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] 'Two sensational CDs ... He's the first great Scandinavian symphonist, though we had to wait until this century to appreciate the fact ... a sort of cross between Mendelssohn and Sibelius. A winner' - Time Out, New York |
GRANADOS / GURIDJ / TURINA / TOLDRA / MONTSALVATGE
Canciones Espanolas Sylvia Schwartz (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] The Nash Ensemble presents a programme of works written at the transit camp Theresienstadt by four Jewish composers who went on to be killed at Auschwitz, their music forgotten. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets Nos 13 'Rosamunde' & 14 "Death And The Maiden" Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] "a sense of drama and tensile strength underlines everything, even a movement as luscious as the Andante of the Rosamunde Quartet..." Gramophone Editor's Choce Awards issue 2006 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: String Quartet 1 - 3 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone November 2013 |
FRANK BRIDGE
Phantasy Piano Quartet & Sonatas the Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "The sonata receives a wonderfully searching performance from Paul Watkins and Ian Brown...[in the Violin Sonata] the earlier lyricism is there, but as just one part of an expressive web. Thorsen and Brown catch those moodswings perfectly" Guardian |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets in B flat & C minor Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Chamber --'Their approach is alert, texturally clear and passionate … These are admriable performances which I recommend to any prospective buyer … this new Takács reading weighs in at the top end of the many available... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 71 1-3 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] In these compelling interpretations the Takács Quartet display an absolute unanimity of tone and style and cement their reputation as one of today's greatest string quartets. |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets, Op. 74 1-3 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These quartets date from 1793 and were written when Haydn returned home to Vienna after a visit to London which had cemented his international fame as a composer and public figure. The composer wrote a set of six string quartets for Count Anton... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet / String Quartet D703 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Their performance, with Ralph Kirshbaum fitting effortlessly into the ensemble as second cellist, is never conceived as a reassuring tour around one of western music's supreme achievements. There's always an undertow of unease...It's a formidably... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quintets in B flat & C minor Takacs Quartet, Laurence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] The Takács Quartet have been recently described as 'one of the world's most distinguished ensembles'. Here they collaborate with Britain's greatest living viola player, Lawrence Power, who with his long association with The Nash Ensemble among others... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quartet No 14 & String Quintet No 3 "American" Takacs Quartet, Lawrence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "a Bohemian fertility of sound that makes us relish the Takacs' fluid ensemble, which would seem to include how much each of the musicians remains fascinated by his colleagues" AudAud Best of the year 2017 |
STEPHEN HOUGH / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "This recording really is a joy from start to finish...the Takács Quartet are alive to every inflection in Ravel's meticulously marked score..Above all, Stephen Hough's is an unmistakably individual and convincing voice." BBC Music Five Stars Feb 201 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Felix's impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister's death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frame it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887 Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/May/2024 ] The 'heavenly lengths' Schumann loved in late Schubert are as much in evidence in the sublime G major quartet as in the other large-scale works of Schubert's final years. The Takács Quartet's earlier Hyperion recordings of Schubert were hailed as... |
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 |
