Hyperion
Debussy: Études (Hyperion)
Performances with technical agility and remarkable interpretative skills [JF]
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Hyperion)
A stylish and committed performance that renews again one’s awe at the genius of Bach [JQ]
Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A performance to love and to cherish [SV]
The Coronation of George II (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A wonderful recording of superlative music in performances that surely cannot be bettered [JL]
Stanford: Piano Quintet, String Quintet No. 1 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Wonderful music and marvellously performed [MC]
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerti (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Some fleet playing but 2 & 3 are too superficial to make the cycle recommendable as a whole [CH]
Bach: The French Suites (Hyperion)
Enriching performances, informed by consummate musicianship [SG]
Gurney: Songs (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Agnew is an eloquent exponent of these bitter-sweet, nostalgic and elegiac songs [HC]
Chaminade: Piano Music, Vol 1 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A collection that will enchant all but the hardest-hearted [IL]
Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, Tavener: Choral Works (Hyperion)
Splendid Vaughan Williams, and the other works are not to be missed on any account [WH]
Busoni: Piano Concerto (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A landmark disc of an epic, landmark concerto, one of the finest in the Hyperion series [CF]
Stanford: Songs Vol. 2 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A good representation of the strength and variety of the central, most important, part of Stanford’s career [CH]
Simpson: Symphony 11 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion’s best [HC]
Schubert: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion)
Attractive performances whose strength is in the happy times and finding consolation in still facing the unhappy [MG]
Fauré: Piano Works (Hyperion)
Magical performances, illuminated and musically informed, recorded in superior sound [SG]
Magalhães: Masses (Hyperion)
A fine choir in rare late Renaissance Portuguese repertoire, sung with style and skill [GH]
Bortkiewicz: Symphonies (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Exultant, yearning, gloomy, sincere, passionate, nostalgic Slavonic music [RB]
Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets (Hyperion)
A convincing collection, well-sung, played and recorded [CG]
Bach: The Six Partitas (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Angela Hewitt again shows her mastery of Bach’s keyboard music [KM]
Stojowski: Piano Concertos (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Two marvellous, scandalously neglected romantic piano concertos [JQ]
Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A superb overview of Bach’s chamber music for flute [KM]
Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, Tavener: Choral works (Hyperion)
This disc closes the James O’Donnell era at Westminster Abbey in considerable style [JQ]