ROSSINI
Soiraes musicales Miah Persson (soprano) Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano) Bruce Ford (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Rossini's Soirées musicales and Péchés de vieillesse were the musical fruits of salon evenings held weekly in his Parisian home. Elegant, charming and often delicately ironic, these songs for various voices are the perfect exemplar of 'salon music',... |
ZELENKA
The Lamentations of Jeremiah Michael Chance (countertenor) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/May/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
LOUIS SPOHR
Clarinet Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Michael Collins (clarinet) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Robin O'Neill [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] 'Collins completes his recordings of these delightful concertos with the contrasting works presented here … Collins dazzles like a bel canto diva in the pyrotechnic leaps, trills and runs, while he lavishes his rich tone, phenomenal breath control... |
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) |
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) |
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) |
SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY
Symphonies 3, 4, 5 & 6 Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "The performances by the Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra are first rate: polished, poised, vital of rhythm and fully alive to the unusual warmth of Wesley's lines and textures………… The recording is exemplary in its clarity and spaciousness" Gramophone |
JOSEPH JOACHIM RAFF
Symphonies 3 and 4 The Milton Keynes City Orchestra / Hillary Davan Wetton, conductor [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'Finely crafted and immensely polished performances.' (The Sunday Times, Malta) |
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 |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra
B Tchaikovsky: Chamber Sym [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/May/2004 ] |
BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY
Music for Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra / Ludmila Golub, organ / Alexander Rudin, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] "These excellent, meticulously prepared readings are warmly recorded. The production is again up to Hyperion's best. Recommended" - MusicWeb Oct 2004 |
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) |
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... |
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 |
ORTIZ / SENFL / JANEQUIN / CASTELLO / MARINI / etc
Flute Music of the 16th & 17th centuries Nancy Hadden, Rachel Beckett, Lisa Beznosiuk, Janet See (renaissance flutes) Colin Tilney (harpsichord) Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) Erin Headley (gamb [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] 'Beautifully engineered ... and played by all concerned with effortless artistry, the music of Frescobaldi has rarely sounded as seductive as this' (International Record Review) |
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... |