Hyperion
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... —
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This is a fine recital, with a recording to match —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2004, Editor's Choice
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Driver revels in Emanuel's idiosyncrasies, underlining the spontaneous and edgier qualities in the composer's Empfindsamer stil (sensitive style). —
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Supreme artistry. —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 26 - Litolff
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Litolff's dauntingly ambitious structures accommodate every possible style, looking forwards and backwards Janus-style, yet reaching out in the strange almost Alkanesque oddity of the Fifth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2001, Editor's Choice
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It remains only to say that the solo male voices of The Binchois Consort are at the top of their form and that the presentation (with booklet material by Fitch and Andrew Kirkman) meets Hyperion’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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Andrew-John Smith's clever programming alternates the Three Preludes and Fugues, Op 99, with the three Fantaisies and other works. Wisely, he begins and ends the CD with the loudest and most... —
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Sonata, fantasia, humoresk: what's in a name when Schumann's lyric muse lets inspired ideas loose in such profusion? Never have they sounded easier or more natural than in Angela Hewitt's seemingly... —
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To extract colour and atmosphere from a harpsichord is a much bigger challenge than to do so from a Steinway, but Esfahani brings a pleasantly varied palette to his task...This a plain and straightforward... —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Introspective (but never lost in introspection) one minute, of the most refined bravura the next, he expresses a personality all his own, brilliantly alert to mercurial changes of mood and clearly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, February 2014, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
Purchase product
Vinyl Record
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