'Les sylvains' was one of the seven pieces Chaminade herself recorded in November 1901, the first female composer ever to record her own music and among the first piano recordings made by a woman. From Stephen Hough's new album.
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Of Chaminade's roughly 400 compositions, about 200 were for the piano alone. Among the most popular during her lifetime was 'Les sylvains', appearing in 1892. The yearning melancholy of its first subject is contrasted by the quicksilver, iridescent second idea in the minor key.
From the latest instalment in Mahan Esfahani's mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach, out 12th June.
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The closing rondo of Bach's Concerto No 3 in D major, BWV1054 is a dance in 3/8 time full of vitality. The four episodes, each gaining in virtuosity, give the soloist a chance to shine.
Today is the birthday of Catalan composer Federico Mompou (1893-1987). These two recordings by Sir Stephen Hough convincingly convey the exotic sound world of his piano pieces. @hyperionrecords.bsky.social
His buried treasures are the latest subject of Cupertinos's multi-year exploration of Portuguese Renaissance polyphony.
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The name Francisco Garro (c1556-1623) takes us back to one of the most outstanding and intriguing figures in the history and historiography of music in Portugal.
The closing rondo is a dance in 3/8 time which can't fail to lighten our spirits. From the latest instalment in @mahanesfahani.bsky.social’s mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach, out 12th June.
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Bach's Concerto No 3 in D major, BWV1054 in D major demonstrates keyboard virtuosity in a light different from that of the D minor's dark rumblings, with leaps all over the keyboard attesting to the Protean quality of the harpsichord to sing and dance in equal measure.
Charles Potiphar, a shepherd and labourer, sang the haunting 'Bushes and briars' and Vaughan Williams devoted years of his life to the collecting of such traditional songs. The first single from The Gesualdo Six's new album 'Wishing Tree'.
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On 4th December 1903 Ralph Vaughan Williams was a slightly reluctant attendee at a tea party given by the Vicar of Ingrave, Essex, where he hoped to meet a few villagers who might know some songs. What occurred was little short of a Damascene conversion.
These releases from the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Hough and Mishka Rushdie Momen will be available as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds with sleeve notes.
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The fifth batch in our Vinyl Edition series is set for release on 15th May. With over 20 releases now available, these latest inclusions add two major pillars of the repertoire alongside a recent jewel.
This is a treasure chest. Angela Hewitt is the finest interpreter of Bach on a modern keyboard that I have ever heard. Her second traversal of "Das wohltemperierte Klavier" (BWV 846-893) contains the very DNA of classical music.
Angela's Bach Odyssey started in 1994 when Ted Perry first heard her recording of the Bach Inventions. Angela recounts: 'I'll take it!' said Ted over the telephone. 'But you haven't heard it yet!' I exclaimed. 'I don't need to—I know it will be good', was his reply!
For the first time ever, @angejsb.bsky.social’s complete recordings of the Bach keyboard works on Hyperion are presented in one collection of 27 CDs covering nearly 25 years of Angela's Bach recordings on Hyperion, from 1994 to 2018. Order the boxset 🎧 hyperion.lnk.to/cds44621-47SR
From the Amsterdam Piano Trio's upcoming debut recording, which pairs two giants of the late nineteenth-century chamber repertoire: Tchaikovsky's 'Piano Trio' of 1882 and Schoenberg's 'Verklärte Nacht'.
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Variation 9 is one of 11 (and a theme) that make up Tchaikovsky's second movement of a work dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein. Violin and cello alternate in passionate pleas while the piano accompanies with harp-like figurations in a quiet serenade to a much-loved musician.
Teaming up with the Britten Sinfonia, Esfahani dispels any assumptions that the harpsichord might be seen as an 'ancient' instrument, eschewing period instruments in favour of modern ones.
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Announcing the latest instalment in @mahanesfahani.bsky.social’s mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos.
Here is but a small selection from the accompanying booklet.
With its release just one week away, what better subject to dedicate a "throwback" post to than our Romantic Piano Concerto series, and the treasure trove of wonderful photos documenting this landmark undertaking.
#NowPlaying It's arrived! Thanks to @hyperionrecords.bsky.social for the speedy service.
This volume, spanning 1991 to 2007, features 130 works from 59 composers, performed by 19 different pianists, luxuriously presented with photographs from the recording sessions, comprehensive indexes and commentaries on the entire journey from those closest to it from the start.
The first of two box sets celebrating one of the most ambitious, and successful, series in the history of classical recording is out on 10th April. Pre-order the boxset 🎧 hyperion.lnk.to/cds44701-50SR
The bass voice traces the original chant in long note values. Since the chant moves mostly in stepwise motion, this produces a restful effect appropriate to the text.
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'In pace' is a respond for Compline during Lent in the Sarum rite. The polyphonic versets survive in the Gyffard Partbooks, while the chant sung here has been supplied from the Sarum antiphoner printed at Paris in 1519.
… and Cinquecento's idiomatic performances restore to life a major work from the mid-sixteenth century. 'Tye: The Peterhouse Mass & other works' offers a welcome opportunity to evaluate the 'skill in music's harmony' of a direct contemporary of Thomas Tallis.
Six chamber works for combinations of between two and five players, all linked by having been performed at some stage by the Goldner String Quartet or its members, are freshly recorded here in homage to Carl Vine, one of the most approachable and prolific composers of our day …
