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Stephen Hough's French Album - works by Alkan, Chabrier, Debussy, Delibes, Faure et al. / Stephen Hough, piano

1 CD / Hyperion / 2012-09-12

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Keyboard Concerto no 5 in F minor, BWV 1056; Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne for piano no 6 in D flat major, Op. 63; Improvisation...
Performers: Hough, Stephen

Stephen Hough presents an enchanting program of French music, played with the filigree perfection and total command of the music's expressive world that make him...continue...

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss; Scènes De Ballet

1 CD / Hyperion / 2010-04-13

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss), ballet in 4 scenes for orchestra; Scènes de ballet, for orchestra
Conductors: Volkov, Ilan

The second disc of Stravinsky's ballet music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov features the composer's fascinating recreation of the music of...continue...
Recording information: City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow (11/15/2008-11/16/2008)....continue...

Stravinsky: Orpheus; Jeu de cartes; Agon

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-09-08

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes; Agon, ballet for 12 dancers & orchestra; Orpheus, ballet in 3 scenes for orchestra
Conductors: Volkov, Ilan
Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stravinsky's ballet music contains some of the composer's most dazzling inspirations, and his work with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes brought him to international attention before the...continue...

The Complete Hindemith Viola Music, Vol. 1: Viola Sonatas

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-06-09

Works: Paul Hindemith: Sonata for viola & piano in C major; Sonata for Viola and Piano in F major, Op. 11 no 4; Sonata for viola & piano, Op. 25/4; Nobilissima visione, ballet suite for orchestra
Performers: Crawford-Phillips, Simon; Power, Lawrence

British violist Lawrence Power turns his attention to an incalculably important body of work for the instrument: a complete survey of Hindemith's music for viola....continue...

Schmitt: Psaume XLVII, etc / Fischer, Buffle, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-07-10

Works: Florent Schmitt: Psaume 47, Op. 38; Suite sans espirit de suite, for piano, Op. 89; Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50
Performers: Buffle, Christine; Humphries, Charles; Walker, Jennifer
Conductors: Fischer, Thierry
Ensemble: BBC National Chorus of Wales

"the magnificent engineering really counts in this brilliant but also very heavily scored music. The BBC National Orchestra plays with plenty of power; the strings...continue...

British Light Music Classics / Corp, New London Orchestra

4 CD / Hyperion / 2006-11-14

Works: Eric Coates: Calling All Workers, march for orchestra; London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra; Music Everywhere (Rediffusion March); By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra; Geoffr...
Performers: Scott, Ruth
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]

77 tracks of golden nostalgia on 4 compact discs, including the music made famous as the signature tunes to Music While You Work, The Secret...continue...

Shostakovich, Schnittke: Cello Sonatas / Gerhardt, Osborne

1 CD / Hyperion / 2006-07-11

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40; A Child's Excercise Book (Children's Tetrad), for piano, Op. 69; Ballet Suite no 1, Op. 84b; Moskva, Cheremushki, Op. 105; Victorio...
Performers: Gerhardt, Alban [Cello]; Osborne, Steven

Presenting an intense and enthralling musical journey of powerful Russian twentieth century music performed by the charismatic cellist Alban Gerhardt, accompanied by acclaimed pianist Steven...continue...

Chaminade: Piano Music Vol 3 / Peter Jacobs

1 CD / Hyperion / 2006-05-09

Works: Cécile Chaminade: Prelude for piano in D minor, Op. 84/3; Rigaudon, Op. 55/6; Les Sylvains (The Fauns), for piano, Op. 60; Valse-Ballet, Op. 112; Inquiétude, Op. 87/3; Arabesque, Op. 61; Tr...
Performers: Jacobs, Peter [Piano]

'As in the previous volumes, Peter Jacobs shows himself to be fluent, clean-fingered, elegantly delicate where required, and able to invest the music with fine...continue...

Lambert: Piano Concerto, etc / Lloyd-Jones, Plowright, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-09-13

Works: Constant Lambert: Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 2 tableaux; Elegiac Blues "In Memory of Florence Mills"; Piano Concerto, for piano, 2 trumpets, strings & timpani; The Bird Actors Overture, for orchestr...
Performers: Plowright, Jonathan
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

Constant Lambert - pioneering ballet composer, maverick author and lover of cats - was composing in those heady days between the two wars when English...continue...

The Stephen Hough Piano Collection

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-06-14

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Ballade for Piano no 3 in A flat major, B 136/Op. 47; Federico Mompou: Paisajes, for piano; Ben Weber: Fantasia (Variations), for piano; Deng Yu-Hsien: Pining for the Sprin...
Performers: Hough, Stephen

"Hough is supremely and charismatically on top of it all. He possesses a mesmerising range of colours, knoww how to be intellectual without being cerebral,...continue...

Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus / Charles Mackerras

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-05-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

'Full of music which is not only immensely attractive but also highly original ... a splendid disc, strongly recommended' (CDReview)

'Highly recommended' (The Penguin Guide to...continue...

Satie: Parade, Relâche, Mercure, etc / Corp, New London

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-12-14

Works: Erik Satie: Parade, ballet in 1 scene for orchestra; Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy); Mercure, ballet in 3 scenes; Gnossiennes (6), for piano; Relâche (No Performa...
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]
Ensemble: New London Orchestra

"Admirers of Satie will not need a recommendation from me to seek out this well-filled and attractive issue." - Gramophone "Stunningly played and recorded. This...continue...

Monteverdi: Il Ballo dell'Ingrate, etc / Holman, Red Byrd

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-08-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8; Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi... Libro ottavo
Performers: Bickley, Susan; Padmore, Mark [Tenor Vocals]; Pierard, Catherine; Potter, John [Tenor Vocal]; Seers, Mary [Soprano Vocals]; Wistreich, Richard [Bass Vocals]
Conductors: Holman, Peter
Ensemble: Parley of Instruments

'One of the most perfect CDs ever made. Unsurpassable: glorious music, superb performances and hair-raising sound. The performers, engineers, and Hyperion Records deserve the highest...continue...

Milhaud: Le Carnaval d'Aix, etc / Ronald Corp

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-08-01

Works: Darius Milhaud: Le carnaval d'Aix (11), fantasy for piano & orchestra, Op. 83b; L'apothéose de Molière (5), suite for chamber orchestra, Op. 286; Le Carnaval de Londres, suite for orchestra...
Performers: Gibbons, Jack
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]
Ensemble: New London Orchestra

'I know of no finer introduction to Milhaud's lighter orchestral work' (International Record Review)

'What delightful music this is' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'C'est un...continue...

Rameau: Règne Amour / Sampson, Skidmore, Ex Cathedra

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-06-01

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes, opéra-ballet; Les Paladins, comédie lyrique; Platée ou Junon jalouse, opera; Zoroastre, tragédie en musique; Dardanus, trag&eacut...
Performers: Agnew, Paul [Tenor Vocals]; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Sampson, Carolyn; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Skidmore, Jeffrey
Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir and Baroque Orchestra

"Skidmore has been making a name for himself in both Renaissance and baroque literature, and here he leads a splendid show. He marshals a period-instrument...continue...

Poulenc: Aubade, Sinfonietta; Hahn: Beatrice d'Este / Corp

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-06-01

Works: Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra, FP 141; Aubade for Piano and 18 instruments; Reynaldo Hahn: La bal de Béatrice d'Este, ballet
Performers: Evans, Julian
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]
Ensemble: New London Orchestra

Lambert: Horoscope; Bliss: Checkmate; Walton: Façade

1 CD / Hyperion / 2003-07-01

Works: Constant Lambert: Horoscope, suite from the ballet; William Walton: Façade, Suite no 2, for orchestra; Façade, Suite no 1, for orchestra; Arthur Bliss: Prologue and Five Dances from "Checkm...
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

"A joy to welcome. All in all a disc not to be missed." - Gramophone "The music if all three is essentially English, splendidly dramatic...continue...

Kaleidoscope / Marc-Andre Hamelin

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-11-01

Works: Edna Bentz Woods: Valse Phantastique, for piano; Sergey Rachmaninov: Lachtäubchen (Behr) "Polka de W.R."; Josef Hofmann: Mignonettes (5) for piano; Charakterskizzen (4) for Piano; Marc-André...
Performers: Hamelin, Marc-Andre [Piano]

"This is the kind of disc that no pianist could do better than Marc-Andre Hamelin: a collection of miniature piano rarities and transcriptions... Throughout, the...continue...

Il Ballarino - Italian Dances c 1600 /Barlow, Broadside Band

1 CD / Hyperion / 2000-11-01

Works: Fabritio Caroso: Allegrezza D'Amore, cascarda for Renaissance ensemble; Celeste Giglio (Ballet of the Noble Woman); Forza D'Amore (Ballet of the Noble Woman); Alta Gonzaga (Ballet of the Noble Woman)...

This collection of dances from 16th and 17th-century Italy features compositions and arrangements by Negri, Lupi, Picchi, Gastoldi and others. Listeners will find it a...continue...

McCabe: Edward II / Wordsworth, Royal Ballet Sinfonia

2 CD / Hyperion / 2000-05-01

Works: John McCabe: Edward II, ballet in 2 acts
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry
Ensemble: Royal Ballet Sinfonia

British composer John McCabe's colorful ballet score "Edward II" was premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany in 1995. Edward II ruled medieval England between...continue...

Stephen Hough's New Piano Album - Chaminade, Godowsky, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-11-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Soirée de Vienne 6 (after Schubert); Work(s); Franz Schubert: Moments musicaux (6) for Piano, D 780/Op. 94; Morgengruss ("Guten Morgen..."), song for voice & piano (Die schön...
Performers: Hough, Stephen

"This latest outstanding release recalls a world of musical enchantment where artifice and sentiment are distinct virtues...Beside a glittering performance of Rachmaninoff's 'Humoresque' and an...continue...

Favourite Baroque Classics / Goodman, Brandenburg Consort

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-08-01

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude to the Te Deum; Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Cantata no 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21; Easter Oratorio, BWV 249; ...
Performers: Arfken, Katharina; Beznosiuk, Lisa; Goodman, Roy; Jackson, Sally [winds]; Keavy, Stephen; Miles, Rebecca; North, Nigel [Lute]
Conductors: Goodman, Roy
Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort

'This disc can be highly recommended as one of the best in the field' (Fanfare, USA)

'This disc deserves to go to the top of the...continue...

Lambert: Tiresias, Pomona / Lloyd-Jones, English Northern PO

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-04-01

Works: Constant Lambert: Pomona, ballet; Tiresias, ballet
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

'This excellent premiere recording from Hyperion may well restore a major score to the repertory, even perhaps to the stage' (The Times)

'A worthy successor...continue...

Martinu: La Revue de Cuisine, etc / Dartington Ensemble

2 CD / Hyperion / 1998-05-01

Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Madrigal Stanzas (5) for Violin and Piano; Madrigals (4) for oboe, clarinet & bassoon, H. 266; Madrigals (3) for Violin and Viola; Madrigal Sonata; Nonet for wind quintet & piano qu...
Performers: Bennett, William; Benson, Clifford; Bryden, John; Butterworth, Oliver; Campbell, David; Canter, Robin; Evans, Michael J.; Ireland, Patrick; Kovacic, Ernst; Osostowicz, Krysia; Sheen, Graham; Tomes, S...
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Ensemble: Dartington Ensemble

'First-class performances and superb recording. An indispensable issue for lovers of Martinu's music' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'A delightful record, first class performances and...continue...