Your Favourite Hyperion Discs

[aeolium]

Mozart Clarinet Concerto & Quintet with Thea King on bassett clarinet

Yes, and Thea King's recordings of Brahms' clarinet sonatas and clarinet quintet/trio, and of English clarinet quintets.

Margaret Price and Graham Johnson performing Schumann's Liederkreis op 39 and Kerner Lieder.

Handel's Acis and Galatea, King's Consort. CPE Bach, Flute Concertos, Brown/Goodman/Brandenburg Consort.

Among others...

[johnb]

...and Visions de l'amen, Westminster Cathedral Choir recordings, Robert Simpson, The Christopher Herrick organ recordings of Bach, Buxtehude and Organ Fireworks, .................????????

Although I've never really warmed to Robert Simpson's symphonies I do believe that Hyperion have done an inestimable service to music by championing Simpson's work.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, he was addressing the forum (and the public unless this contentious topic has been side-barred), so he wasn't expecting us to share one disc amongst us all!

If he was, I bags the Simpson Quartets a week on Tuesday!

[Ruhevoll]

If he was, I bags the Simpson Quartets a week on Tuesday!

Hi FHG: What Simpson I know has been symphonies via YouTube. I've listened with curiosity, patience, and an open-mind, but it hasn't drawn me in...yet. Are the quartets more approachable?

I'll keep persevering. Do you think they'll ever play any at the Proms one day?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hi FHG: What Simpson I know has been via YouTube. I've listened with curiosity, patience, and an open-mind, but it hasn't drawn me in...yet. I'll keep persevering. Do you think they'll ever play any at the Proms one day?

Well, let's not lose heart - although at the moment we're more likely to win the lottery three times in a row.

Hyperion have so many excellent discs, it'd probably be easier to ask which ones to avoid. A label where sticking a pin at random into their catalogue will probably find you a gem.

[AmpH]

So very many wonderful discs ( especially of British composers ), its hard to know where to start. But a few ( apart from the Simpson symphonies and Faure chamber works already mentioned ) would include :-

Piano music played by Steven Osborne - Debussy Preludes , Alkan Esquisses , Britten piano works and especially a 2 cd set of the Tippett piano concerto and piano sonatas.

A delightful disc of Robert Simpson brass works ( incl the Four Temperaments ) by the Desford Colliery Brass Band.

The Nonets of Parry and Stanford played by Capricorn.

Stanford - string quartets 1 & 2 plus the horn fantasy with the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet and Stephen Stirling.

[EdgeleyRob]

Music lovers with a sense of entitlement. Go Beefy !!

anyway, anybody got any idea where a person might get to hear Robert Simpson's chamber music, prior to a prospective purchase?
Cheers.

There are a few bits and bobs here ts http://earsense.org/chamberbase/work...275&ensemble=1

and the clarinet quintet is in the Naxos library.

[EdgeleyRob]

So many of my favourites have already been mentioned,RVW,Parry,Stanford,but I couldn't bear to be without the Howells Quartet no 3.

[teamsaint]

There are a few bits and bobs here ts http://earsense.org/chamberbase/work...275&ensemble=1

and the clarinet quintet is in the Naxos library.

Thanks a lot ER, that is a great help.

I had spotted the quintet. Not much on youtube or spotty.
This is a great start though.

[pastoralguy]

So many of my favourites have already been mentioned,RVW,Parry,Stanford,but I couldn't bear to be without the Howells Quartet no 3.

I remember buying this cd in a charity shop a couple of years ago. There was a little knick in the last track so I asked the lady assistant if I could hear the last track on the shop's CD player that was pumping out Max Bygraves. She , very grudgingly, took Max off whilst muttering that they didn't normally provide a jukebox service. She let it play for all of 10 seconds before taking it off saying it sounded fine to her before re- instating Max.

[Beef Oven!]

Thanks a lot ER, that is a great help.

I had spotted the quintet. Not much on youtube or spotty.
This is a great start though.

I've pmed you.

[EdgeleyRob]

Hi FHG: What Simpson I know has been symphonies via YouTube. I've listened with curiosity, patience, and an open-mind, but it hasn't drawn me in...yet. Are the quartets more approachable?

I'll keep persevering. Do you think they'll ever play any at the Proms one day?

We've been here before
Please do keep persevering Ruhevoll.
Not sure the chamber music is any more or less approachable,but just as rewarding when it 'clicks'.

[Ruhevoll]

We've been here before
Please do keep persevering Ruhevoll.
Not sure the chamber music is any more or less approachable,but just as rewarding when it 'clicks'.

Love the pigs! With your encouragement in mind, I shall stick with the Simpson.

[Beef Oven!]

Love the pigs!

Outdoor-reared mate!

[Ruhevoll]

Outdoor-reared mate!