Hyperion
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 74 - Sir William Sterndale Bennett
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Shelley is his usual reliable self, making light of technical difficulties, and breathing life into neglected corners of the repertoire. Some of these pieces are short on memorable ideas, but... —
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
David Butt Philip (Gerontius), Karen Cargill (Angel), Roland Wood (Priest/Angel of the Agony), Huddersfield Choral Society, Orchestra of Opera North, Martyn Brabbins
The combination of clarity and balance of this Hyperion recording, revealing details one often bypasses or simply does not hear...along with the vibrant choral dimension, is a very persuasive... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Straddling the transition from the harpsichord to the piano, CPE Bach showed the way forward to a new instrumental sensibility...Using a modern piano, Marc-André Hamelin delivers 50 tracks to... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st December 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
Purchase product
2 Vinyl Records
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a secure recommendation for both works. —
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Cramer’s piano writing in and of itself is ingenuous, idiomatic and alive, and almost always holds your attention…It takes a special kind of pianist to make certain pieces sound better or more... —
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All three works have individuality and substance; and it’s hard to imagine they can ever have been much better played. There are just a few moments – for instance the chords of the piano’s... —
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Superb playing is matched by fine engineering in the atmospheric acoustic of Potton Hall. Greatly recommended – you won't regret it. —
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Shelley plays this music with consummate artistry, making light of its technical difficulties and investing it with all the Romantic charm and ardour it needs. It's captured in excellent quality... —
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…a luminous evenness of touch and a wonderful lightness in his decorations and runs. …his account of the Adagio of the E flat, HobXVI:49, has a tenderness of its own. And while his account... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2009
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedLydia Teuscher (soprano), Ida Falk Winland (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Cohen's take side-steps Joshua Rifkin's premise that it should be sung one-to-a-part and fields a choir of 20...Cohen announces the Credo at an invigoratingly purposeful lick...Tim Mead's eloquently... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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