SCHARWENKA
Piano Music Volume 3 Seta Tanyel (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Feb/2003 ] 'Tanyel's clear enthusiasm for this unhackneyed programme is utterly refreshing ... The performance reminds us again just how well she understands the piano's Romantic repertoire.' (Classic CD) |
SCHARWENKA
Piano Music Volume 4 (Incls Four Polish Dances) Seta Tanyel (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] '… brimful with alert character and beauty whilst the two piano pieces are delightful in their raucous melodies … briliantly done by Tanyel' (Classical Net Review) |
EDWARD MacDOWELL
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Second Modern Suite Op 14 for solo piano Seta Tanyel (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 25 / CD - released 26/Mar/2001 ] '[Tanyel] can totally identify with this kind of post-Lisztian lyric bravura style' (BBC Music Magazine) |
STENHAMMAR
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Seta Tanyel (piano) / Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 49 / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] The original orchestration of Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No 1 is recorded here: a version which was long thought lost when the publishers were bombed during the second world war. |
BLISS / BRITTEN / HOLST
English Choral Music Shirley Minty (mezzo) Martyn Hill (tenor) Holst Singers / Hilary Wetton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Jan 2002)- "Never tentative or imprecise, the voices blend beautifully. The upper voices in particular shine with a luminous quality, and are wonderfully fast and flexible." |
Short/Miller
Danyel:songs [ Hyperion / CD - released 23/Mar/1995 ] |
BRAHMS
The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Serenade' Op 70 No 3) Simon Bode (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "His tone is sweet and gently rounded, his diction crystal-clear, his phrasing always thoughtful. Spinning a rapt, sustained lined, he movingly catches the Brahmsian twilit melancholy of 'Abenddammerung'...'Wiegenlied', too, is as dulcet as you could |
JOSEPH RHEINBERGER / BERNHARD SCHOLZ
Rheinberger / Scholz: Piano Concertos Simon Callaghan (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon (conductor) [ Hyperion The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 76 / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] 'The Rheinberger Concerto sets off in a mood of confident pomp..the supremely gifted Ben Gernon coaxes terrifically colourful playing from the BBC Scottish SO' (Gramophone) |
CARL REINECKE
Reinecke: Piano Concertos Simon Callaghan (piano), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen , Modestas Pitrėnas [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] A prolific composer, respected and influential in his lifetime-the Romantic Piano Concerto again turns up trumps with three concertos by Carl Reinecke. |
SCHUMANN
Songs of Robert Schumann, Vol. 02 (Incls 'Lieder und Gesange aus Wilhelm Meister, Op 98a') Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schumann Edition / CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] 'The collaboration of Keenlyside and Johnson is so potent that after an hour one is still ready for more' (Gramophone) |
JOSEPH MARX
Phantasie / 4 Lieder Simone Nold (soprano) Christoph Renz (flute) Felix Schwartz (viola) / Hyperion trio [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Impressionistic twentieth-century Romanticist Joseph Marx was once Austria's most distinguished composer; his fame and authority continued to be unbroken even in the 1950s. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Bella Domna: Cantigas de amigo Sinfonye / Stevie Wishart [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] 'Like so much that has been good, innovative and dangerous in recent recordings of early music, this comes from Hyperion' (BBC Record Review) |
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
More Songs My Father Taught Me (music of Frederick Clay, Haydn Wood, Arthur Sullivan, Eric Coates, etc) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "Drawing-room songs that make their mark again, thanks to such a strong advocate" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2003) |
SULLIVAN / COATES / NOVELLO / PENN / WOOD / etc
Songs my father taught me Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] A persuasive case for the often sublime artistry of the humble parlour song' (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Six Motets The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/1990 ] "Splendid. A wonderful achievement, one that only renews our admiration for Bach. It has been six, maybe twelve months since I heard a record that impressed me as much as this one. Don't pass it by" (American Record Guide) |
WILLIAM MUNDY
Cathedral Music The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] 'For a wallow in the richest cream of English Reformation church music you couldn't do much better than this' (Early Music Review) |
FAYRFAX / MUNDY / SHEPPARD / TAVERNER
The Golden Age of English Polphony [10 CDs for a special price] The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Hyperion / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2010 ] In this their 30th anniversary year, we join the Sixteen in celebrating a Golden Age of Polyphony, and of music-making, by presenting their twelve discs of this repertoire in an attractively packaged (and priced) 10-CD remastered set. |
MONTEVERDI
Masses (Incls 'In illo tempore') The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "Strongly recommended to anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of Monteverdi beyond the Vespers - much less dramatic music, but well worth getting to know in such excellent performances" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
JOHN TAVERNER
Missa Corona Spinea The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'A superb disc and an astonishing bargain' (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
JOHN TAVERNER
Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'An issue of the first importance. It unquestionably merits a place in every serious record collection' (Gramophone) |