Hyperion
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]
JS Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena (Hyperion)
A beautifully performed portrait of Bach’s second wife through the music which he chose for her [MSt]
MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross, Te Deum (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Seven Last Words makes a profound impression; a masterpiece [JQ]
JS Bach: The Keyboard Concertos Vol. 2 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Bach performances to cherish [CH]
Byrd: Mass for Five Voices (Hyperion)
A refined, intimate, impeccably sung and recorded collection of Byrd at his most reserved and doleful [RMo]
Antognini: Choral Works (Hyperion)
Imaginative choral music by Ivo Antognini in brilliant performances [JQ]
Monteverdi: Vespers (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Truly mind-blowing – I can’t imagine it being replaced any time soon [DC]
Saint-Saëns: Chamber Music (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A wonderfully presented release that is clearly one of my records of the year [MC]
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