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Hyperion

  • Beneath the Northern Star: How the Music of the Spheres Joined Forces with Western Art Music

    Aug 3rd, 2017 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: CD Review, Dissolution of the monasteries, early music, Hyperion, John Dunstaple, Medieval England, medieval music, Orlando Consort, Polyphony, renassiance music, Sacred Music

    “Common practice” period music – basically Bach through Rachmaninoff – is so prevalent on classical radio that one might surmise that the smooth and consonant was the established rule in Western Art music from the very beginning. On the contrary, from the time music manuscripts reflect the practice of harmonizing Gregorian chant begins a painful, […]

  • Dussek Piano Concertos

    Dussek Piano Concertos Launch Hyperion Series

    Oct 4th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Howard Shelley, Hyperion, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Ulster Orchestra

    Following the success of their Romantic Piano Concerto series (63 volumes and counting), Hyperion launches a companion series, The Classical Piano Concerto, featuring music from 1770-1820. It marked the rise of the piano virtuoso, the traveling artist who composed primarily to showcase his own talents. Mozart is one of the more famous examples, but certainly […]

  • Machaut Orlando consort Hyperion

    Intimate music, intimate performance of Machaut

    Jan 13th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, early music, Guillaume de Machaut, Hyperion, medieval music, Orlando Consort

    Guillaume de Machaut’s poem Le Voir Dit, written when he was in his sixties, recounts a love affair between himself and a young girl. Machaut included several pieces of music to help illustrate the text – a true multi-media medieval work of art. This is spare, yet intimate music. Machaut was acknowledged to be one […]

  • Brundibar – Music by Theresienstadt Composers

    Feb 20th, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, Hyperion, Nash Ensemble, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullmann

    Theresienstadt was the primary concentration camp for Czech Jews, and in that crucible the interred musicians forged an artistic life that was as creative as it was transient. The four composers on this disc were the most prominent to be interred at the camp. All had promising careers cut short by their arrest, all composed […]

  • Howard Shelley Makes the Case for Kalkbrenner

    Apr 4th, 2012 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Concerto, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Howard Shelley, Hyperion, Romantic period, Tasmanian symphony Orchestra

    I’m a big fan of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series. This latest installment – Volume 56 – maintains the same high standards of recording and performance quality as the previous volumes. Howard Shelley turns in committed performances of Friedrich Kalkbrenner’s compositions. Shelley’s interpretations seem to fully realize the potential of this neglected music. And this […]

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