Hyperion

If you’ve enjoyed previous volumes in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto Series, you’ll certainly warm to this delightful release — BBC Music MagazineMore…

Schiavo displays a nimble coloratura technique, phrases elegantly and makes much of her words...The Tuscan period band Auser Musici are robust rather than specially subtle partners, with, as... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012More…

As soon as Nadejda Vlaeva launches into her first Saint-Saens Bach transcription, you know you're in for a treat. Sure enough, volume ten of Hyperion's Bach Transcriptions series proves a parade... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Howard Shelley has a strong feeling for the varieties and subtleties of Spohr's symphonic style...[he] steers the necessary course between parody and genuine appreciation, and as a fill-up includes... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010More…

the superb new arrangements by Iain Farrington of King David and Sine Nomine are particularly well worth investigating. Ikon are in top form, immaculately disciplined and highly expressive. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Glorious music, gloriously performed — Classic CDMore…

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood is a very well-constructed piece, with a memorable tune. Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in a brilliant new performance, give... — Penguin Guide, 2011 editionMore…

Once ranked with Beethoven's, Weber's sonatas are now little known. Ohlsson's masterful playing, ranging from the scintillatingly soloistic, engrossingly exposes a miscarriage of justice. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

There are few if any signs that the classically-proportioned Symphony in A major is the work of a 15-year-old…It’s a remarkable assuredness that is admirably engaging in this lithe performance…A... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…