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For Rameau on the piano, Angela Hewitt proves just as gorgeous in her realizations as Tzimon Barto on Ondine, but with a million times the
In 1992 Hyperion released Piers Lane’s exemplary Scriabin Etudes, whetting my appetite for more Scriabin from this stalwart pianist. It’s taken eight years for the
Stunning, simply stunning! Michael Tippett’s greatness as a composer reveals itself perhaps most eloquently in his piano music. Freed of the awkward texts of his
If you have a catalog of Christmas music as distinguished as Hyperion’s, putting together a compilation such as this makes perfect sense–provided the programming is
This Christmas collection from the esteemed vocal ensemble Polyphony is a compilation from several of the group’s existing recordings, plus one work–Morten Lauridsen’s O magnum
Angela Hewitt and Schumann’s First Piano Sonata date back at least to 1982, when the young pianist recorded it for the tiny Canadian label Damzell.
Stephen Rice and his Brabant Ensemble have chosen well in bringing attention to the motets of Nicolas Gombert–music that’s unfairly been neglected on disc but
It was exciting seeing this new recording of Haydn’s Op. 9, the works that the composer felt inaugurated his mature string quartet production, and that
Justly hailed as a gramophone milestone on its 1999 release, Davitt Moroney’s complete William Byrd keyboard works cycle cannot be ignored by anyone with a
As explained in Elizabeth Kenny and Mark Levy’s informative liner notes, beauty and “expressive power” of the voice are the essential ingredients in performing these
