Hyperion

Weir & Beach: Choral works (Hyperion)

Fine performances of two highly contrasted choral works [JQ]

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) Some of the finest performances of Haydn sonatas I have heard [MC]

Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion)

A surprisingly disappointing release [RMas]

Bach: Violin Concerti (Hyperion Helios)

(Déjà Review) Eminently sane performances, well recorded, at a very reasonable price [BW]

The Gesualdo Six: Radiant Dawn (Hyperion)

A dazzling recital performed by The Gesualdo Six combined with the resplendent trumpet playing of Matilda Lloyd [DHa]

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Brahms: Hungarian Dances Volumes 1 & 2 (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) Full-blooded, fiery, romantic and passionate – superb [EML]

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Laurence Perkins (Hyperion) (bassoon) Honey-coloured cow

A superb, entertaining exploration of the bassoon repertoire [GPu]

Sacred Treasures of Rome (Hyperion)

A celebration of Palestrina on his quincentenary supplemented with works by eight Roman contemporaries [RMo]

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Handel: Dettingen Te Deum (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) Superb … all the commitment and excitement imaginable [LW]

Schmitt: Orchestral Music (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) A most auspicious debut on CD for the partnership of Thierry Fischer and the BBC NOW [JQ]

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Sacred Treasures of Rome (Hyperion)

Excellent performances which demonstrate that Palestrina’s music is anything but boring [JV]

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Bloch: Piano Quintets (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) It is never too late to make good personal discoveries of great music [JFL]

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Vaughan Williams: Mass in G and other works (Hyperion)

Strongly committed accounts of both familiar and less familiar Vaughan Williams [CT]

Howells: Choral Music (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) An outstanding survey of part of Howells’ enormous contribution to the music of the English church [JQ]

Schubert: Piano Music (Hyperion)

All round excellence from one of our greatest pianists [PH]

Kalabis: Duettina, Chamber Music & Diptych (Hyperion)

Music that reflects both the bleakness but increasing vitality of Kalabis’s works for string ensemble [JW]

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Byrd: Consort Songs (Hyperion Helios)

(Déjà Review) The whole disc is absolutely delightful [GH]

Franck: Symphony and other symphonic organ works (Hyperion)

Adeptly done, but for organ devotees only [SV]

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Hough: Piano Concerto (Hyperion)

Definitive performances of his own music by Stephen Hough [JQ]

Dufay: Mass for Saint Anthony Abbot; Binchois: Motets (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) Often searingly beautiful, often surprisingly inventive, and always brilliantly performed [EML]

Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets (Hyperion)

Winning performances [LW]

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Hough: Piano Concerto (Hyperion)

A tempting disc but a very short runtime [PH]

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Brian: Agamemnon and Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 (Hyperion)

Havergal Brian’s Agamemnon on disc prefaced, as he’d suggested, by the Twelfth Symphony [JW]

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Fauré: La bonne chanson & other songs (Hyperion)

Anyone wanting a collection of Fauré songs need look no further than this [GF]