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LOUIS SPOHR
Symphonies 8 & 10 Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "These performances - crisp, clear and affectionate - are well recorded and make for pleasing listening, not least Spohr's symphonic swan-song...Anyone new to Spohr's symphonies would do well to start here." (International Record Review) |
ELGAR
Enigma Variations / Organ Sonata Organ of The Temple Church, London / Keith John (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'a technically brilliant performance that employs the instrument's full range of colours and sonorities' (BBC Music Magazine) |
LOYSET COMPERE
Compere: Magnificat, motets & chansons Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "this project is a confident affirmation that all-vocal recordings of 15th-century songs are well worth making' (Gramophone) |
ANONYMOUS / ALANUS / DAMETT / BYTTERING / DUNSTABLE / etc
Beneath the northern star: The rise of English polyphony, 1270-1430 The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] This new album from The Orlando Consort charts the radical development of music between the late thirteenth and mid fifteenth centuries-the transition from what is at essence embellished chant to the extraordinary mathematical intricacies of... |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
A Burning Heart The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] A third collection of songs on the theme of courtly love by Guillaume de Machaut. Throughout this series, the members of The Orlando Consort are proving the most committed of guides to the music and mores of fourteenth-century France. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The dart of love The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Western music as we know it today-many individual lines of whatever nature combining in whatever manner into a single whole-has its roots in the fourteenth century, and most famously in the pioneering works of Guillaume de Machaut. Why he chose to... |
GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: Lament for Constantinople & other songs The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Early Music |
DUFAY / BINCHOIS / ISAAC / ANONYMOUS
The Florentine Renaissance The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] "..the Orlando Consort, whose diction is always immaculate...it is great to have it drawn together on one very generously filled disc." MusicWeb |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The Gentle Physician The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The 'gentle physician' ('dous mire') is Hope, invoked by Machaut as a consolation for the sufferings-and all-too occasional joys-of medieval courtly love, a world with which the 'Orlandos' are persuasively familiar. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Fortune's Child The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] "As we have come to expect with this group, the performances are eminently professional and poised. The duet Riches d'amour is marvellously tuned and lithe, and several of the solo pieces are sung with purity and precision." BBC Music |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Songs from Remede de Fortune The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] The story told by the 'Remede' may be familiar - episodes of courtly life and love in fourteenthcentury France - but from it Machaut develops a magisterial work exploring themes of philosophy, psychology and artistic endeavour. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Sovereign Beauty The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "if I hear a finer recording of 14th-century music this year I'll be very surprised." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Songs from Le Voir Dit The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
STRAVINSKY
Complete music for piano & orchestra Steven Osborne (piano) with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "The outstanding work here is the Concerto for piano and wind instruments, played by Osborne in a way that finds wit in the rhythmic quirks while lending substance to the music's 18th-century references, so that it never sounds dry." Financial Times |
MICHAEL PRAETORIUS
Dances from Terpischore (1612) Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/Jun/2001 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine - 'Peter Holman and his band reveal this music's rich diversity in an intelligent and pleasing anthology. Taut rhythms and fine dynamic control throughout carry the listener along most persuasively … A collection... |
LINLEY
Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare The Parley of Instruments Choir & Orchestra / Paul Nicholson, director [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'This charming ode shows [Linley] sharing with Mozart something of that barely definable but unmistakable gift of melodic genius. The music is as beautiful as the text is absurd, full of shapely tunes that once heard linger hauntingly in the memory'... |
DOWLAND
Lachrimae The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] 'The unique features, superb playing, recording and annotation make this an issue of unusual interest and irresistible attraction' (Gramophone) |
THOMAS LINLEY
The Song of Moses / Let God arise The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] 'Another indispensable release in the English Orpheus series. The adventurous will find their curiosity amply rewarded' (Classic CD) |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (harpsichord, spinet, chamber organ, director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'Classic accounts deserving a place in anyone's CD collection' (BBC Music Magazine) |
MATTHEW LOCKE
'the Broken Consort' The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'This disc is delicious' (American Record Guide) |
