Your Favourite Hyperion Discs

[Guest]

I'm considering subscribing to IRR and they have an offer for 'a single FREE CD' from the Hyperion catalogue, which I assume means a single disc and not a box set of, say, Beethoven Piano Trios.

Which are your favourite Hyperion discs?

[Beef Oven!]

I'm considering subscribing to IRR and they have an offer for 'a single FREE CD' from the Hyperion catalogue, which I assume means a single disc and not a box set of, say, Beethoven Piano Trios.

Which are your favourite Hyperion discs?

Back in the good old days I would have said Matthew Best and the Corydon Singers in Bruckner's Te Deum.

Will need to reflect on whether things might've changed in the last couple of decades for me.

[Nick Armstrong]

Currently, the Isserlis Dvorak Cello Concertos disc (of which I am fortunate to have an advance copy). It's been in my player for a week solid.

There's a gorgeous 'extra' in the form of an orchestral arrangement of Dvorak's song "Lasst mich allein" (from which he used themes in the second and third movements of the B minor concerto) - it's a lovely sentimental little bonbon

If you can get a freebie from the IRR, I'd go for it!



Otherwise, it would be the Domus recording of Fauré's Piano Quintets.

[umslopogaas]

I have very few Hyperion discs, for no reason I can divine, they have an excellent reputation. If you could have a 3 CD set I'd go for Tatiana Nikolayeva playing Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 (CDA66441/3). If it has to be just one, there's the same lady playing Shostakovich's 24 Preludes Op. 34 and some other solo piano items (CDA66620). Or, for something completely different, Holst's 'Savitri' and 'The Dream City' (CDA66099): the latter is an orchestral arrangement by Colin Matthews from Holst's 12 songs Op. 48. Or, completely different again, Francois Couperin's 'Lecons de Tenebres' and other vocal works, with James Bowman and Michael Chance (CDA66474).

[Keraulophone]

Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music, Flos Campi, Five Mystical Songs
16 soloists, Thomas Allen, Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra / Matthew Best

Of course, Hyperion have released many superlative recordings in the 13 years since this VW was recorded, but it hit the spot then, and still does.

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA66420

[Mahler's3rd]

Hi Ruhevoll, Mine would be the recording with the BBC Scottish of Walton's Symphonies 1 & 2, Conducted by Martyn Brabbins, superb this is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walton-BBC-S...+symphony+no+1

[Stunsworth]

The first one I ever bought was 'A Feather On The Breath Of God'. It's still one of my favourites...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hildegard-Bingen-feather-breath-God/dp/B000002ZGD/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1379091035&sr=8-2&keywords=feather+breath+god

They're a label that I feel I can always buy unseen (or rather unheard) as I've enjoyed all of the recordings that I've bought. Good recordings too.

[Richard Tarleton]

Lots here - but just one would have to be, for me, something from Graham Johnson's complete Schubert songs - perhaps 3, with Ann Murray (which includes Nacht und Traüme)...or Mozart Clarinet Concerto & Quintet with Thea King on bassett clarinet...or Angela Hewitt's Goldberg or her Bach Arrangements

[Alison]

A vote for the Bortkiewicz Symphonies, again featuring the indefatigable Martyn Brabbins and the BBCSSO.

[Black Swan]

I have several Hyperion CD's and would be hard pressed to choose.
All the Cinquicento discs are good
The Handel Chandos Anthems by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
The Cardinall's Musick - The William Byrd Discs as well as Thomas Tallis
Currently, enjoying the recent release of Cipriano de Rore by the Brabant Ensemble.

As you can tell my interest is in the Early Music Area. But all the CD's are excellent.

[Barbirollians]

The Domus Faure chamber music recordings .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Simpson Symphonies and String Quartets,
Stockhausen's Stimmung,
The Hannover Band Haydn Symphonies

... and the Schubert Lieder discs and A Feather on the Breath of God already mentioned (together with all the Gothic Voices discs).

A wonderful label - even though the Romantic Piano Concerto series isn't really my cup of tea, it's brilliant that somebody has the courage and commitment to do such a project.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Domus Faure chamber music recordings .

Oh, yes - definitely those, too!

[Beef Oven!]

Having pondered, I'd go for Bob Simpson, String Quartet #10 (For Peace) & #11.

[johnb]

Steven Osborne's recording of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus - a truly great performance.