Ian Tracey plays the organ of Liverpool Cathedral, performing works by Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Handel.

• Data premiery 2018-01-11
• Nośnik DVD

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, an exclusive Chandos artist, here presents its third release on the label. Established in the 1670s, the choir has a long and distinguished tradition of performing religious music and here offers distinguished interpretations of sacred works by Orlande de Lassus. Of its most recent release, Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s (CHSA 5085), The Telegraph wrote: ‘The boy treble voices bring lustre and freshness to the sonority and the singing throughout is stirring and polished.’ Lassus was a prolific and versatile composer and the most famous musician of his day. By the age of twenty-one, he had been appointed Director of Music at the church of St John Lateran in Rome, an impressive appointment for one so young. More than 2000 works by Lassus survive: Latin settings of masses, canticles, motets, passions, litanies, and hymns, as well as secular pieces in Italian, French, and German. Lassus was charismatic and gregarious. He was also bipolar, however, a condition that caused him personal unhappiness, but which also accounted for some of the more original and startling passages in his music. The pieces on this recording represent only a small part of his enormous output: nineteen of the 750-odd surviving motets; two of the one hundred Magnificat settings; and three of his dozen purely instrumental works. It is a small sample, but it shows a composer whose formidable technique, kaleidoscopic ear for texture, and matchless word settings made him the darling of the musical High Renaissance in Western Europe. The majority of Lassus’s motets were settings of religious texts. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum is one of two seven-voice pieces chosen for this recording, and its rich texture allows Lassus to explore appealing vocal combinations without breaking into double-choir cliché. Veni in hortum meum places the listener in the gently seductive world of the Songs of Songs – that ‘sensuously exciting and baffling’ book of the Bible, to quote the English novelist and poetA.S. Byatt. The two Magnificat settings on this recording were composed at least twenty years apart. The Magnificat ‘O che vezzosa aurora’ dates from the mid-1580s. A significant proportion of this work is based directly on a six-voice madrigal by the Modenese composer Orazio Vecchi (1550 – 1605), which was published around the same time. Lassus’s own setting, however, is sunny and optimistic in six-voice sections, and respectively robust and reflective in the three- and four-voice sections.

• Wykonawca His Majestys Sagbutts , Choir of St. John's College
• Data premiery 2011-01-10
• Nośnik CD

Now these really are romantic piano concertos! Stojowski was born and brought up in Poland though he later lived in Paris and finally became an American citizen. He was both virtuoso pianist and serious composer (he wrote a symphony and violin concerto as well as music for his own instrument) and his initial career was full of promise. Unfortunately for his later reputation his style was that of a previous generation and in the 20th century his music was viewed as increasingly dated. One hundred years later this hardly matters and on this CD we find works steeped in the language of Tchaikovsky and Grieg, perhaps with a hint of Saint-Saëns and the almost sentimental lyricism of Paderewski (ten years Stojowski's senior, Paderewski was both teacher and friend to the younger composer, the second concerto was dedicated to, and played by him). We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Plowright to Hyperion. He valiantly tackles the huge virtuoso demands Stojowski makes of the soloist, particularly in the first concerto.The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are playing better than ever and they are kept fully occupied in the rich and colourful scoring of both works.

• Wykonawca Plowright Jonathan
• Data premiery 2003-01-01
• Nośnik CD

John Scott Whiteley plays the organ of York Minster, performing works by Charles Wood, Edward Elgar and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

• Data premiery 2018-01-11
• Nośnik DVD

Tracklista:1. Macbeth, Op. 23, TrV 163 00:19:42 2. I. Der Held (The Hero) 00:04:28 3. II. Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) 00:03:23 4. III. Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero's Companion) 00:12:52 5. IV. Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field of Battle) 00:09:32 6. V. Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero's Works of Peace) 00:06:02 7. VI. Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (The Hero's Withdrawal from the World) 00:08:56

• Wykonawca Smale Alan
• Data premiery 1999-03-29
• Nośnik CD

Zestaw zawiera następujące płyty: CD 1-3 - The six concertos for violin and orchestra CD 4-7 - Other works for violin and orchestra CD 8-12 - Quartets for strings and guitar CD 13 - Trios for strings and guitar CD 14 - String Quartets CD 15-17 - Other chamber works CD 18-26 - Works for violin and guitar CD 27-28 - Works for solo violin CD 29-32 - Works for guitar CD 33-35 - Rare/newly rediscovered works* CD 36-38 - Salvatore Accardo and Ruggiero Ricci play Paganini CD 39-40 - A tribute to Paganini

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2018-09-14
• Nośnik CD

Fans of Angela Hewitt will be delighted to find her in chamber mode, accompanying Andrea Oliva (described as ‘one of the best flutists of his generation, a shining star in the world of the flute’ by Sir James Galway) in a programme of J S Bach’s flute sonatas (including one by his most famous and talented son, C P E). Of unfailingly remarkable quality, all these works exploit the full potential of an instrument which was only just coming into its own when they were written. Oliva’s lyricism and agility coupled with Hewitt’s musicianship-not to mention her lifelong rapport with Bach’s music-make this an album to treasure.

• Wykonawca Oliva Andrea , Hewitt Angela
• Data premiery 2013-02-01
• Nośnik CD

The ensemble Les Cornets Noirs (named after their black, leather covered cornettos) has unearthed some real musical treasures: the collection of Gustaf Düben, chapel-master at the court of Sweden, encompasses more than 2300 musical works that are partly composers’ autographs, partly scribal copies. Düben must have started collecting autographs of established German and Italian composers already during his studies in Germany, and subsequently his position as court chapel-master undoubtedly afforded him many occasions to acquire or copy valuable music. Later, the Düben Collection wandered from Stockholm to the University Library in Uppsala.From the extensive repertoire, Les Cornets Noirs, who play with masterly virtuosity and mellow sound, have selected sonatas intended for “cornetti” as well as other compositionally mature chamber music works and sacred concertos (bass: Wolf Matthias Friedrich) that reflect a broad spectrum of the musical landscapes in Germany, Italy, and the Baltic Sea region of the seventeenth century.

• Wykonawca Les Cornets Noirs
• Data premiery 2012-10-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Clock Goes Round2. See That Girl3. There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis4. Teenager in Love5. Mexican Sofa6. Until the Night7. Falling for Faces8. Just One Look9. The Real Ripper10. Hard to Believe11. He Thinks I Still Care12. There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Country Version)

• Wykonawca Maccoll Kirsty
• Data premiery 2012-10-08
• Nośnik CD

Ravel composed his highly imaginative piano suite Miroirs in 1904-05 after he had joined the Société des Apaches, a group of ground-breaking young musicians, composers, music critics, poets, writers and painters, among them great names like Igor Stravinsky, Florent Schmitt, Manuel de Falla and Maurice Delage. It was Ravel who proposed to adopt the main theme of the first movement of Borodin’s Second Symphony as the society’s musical dictum, a suggestion all members gladly accepted. Miroirs is a musical tribute to his fellow ‘Apaches’ or ‘hooligans’: each of the five movements is dedicated to one of the members. The eight short pieces that comprise Schumann’s Kreisleriana not only prove the point of highest musical imagination, but each individual movement is also a prime example of formal discipline and structural coherence within the cycle as a whole. It is no coincidence that Schumann studied Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier intensively when working on the Kreisleriana. The work’s tonal scheme shares one simple, unifying harmonic factor: the related keys of the ‘daemonic’ G minor and the rather gentle B flat major underpin six of the eight movements. Alexander Scriabin’s earliest compositions, most of them for solo piano, clearly demonstrate his adoration of Chopin, where his first two symphonies are still strongly liaised with Tchaikovsky’s. And like both these composers also Scriabin excelled in creating rich and colourful textures and sonorities. But it was Scriabin’s Later fascination for Wagner, Liszt and Nietzsche, Together with that mystic domain of theosophy and poetic symbolism that gradually put up a quite powerful momentum in his creative life. It all culminated in his greatest of all visions, that he would be able to establish an all-embracing, eternal and super human art form. (from the linernotes of this CD written by Aart van der Wal)The imagination, each on another level, is an important theme in all of the works on this CD. Alexei Volodin is a master in creating the right atmosphere for these imaginative works of all three composers. Although he is a virtuoso, he is even more a pianist who can dive deep into the inner world of the composer and his work. Combined with his own inner depth this results in performances that leave a lasting impression on the listener.

• Wykonawca Volodin Alexei
• Data premiery 2011-03-01
• Nośnik CD