Hyperion
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 79 - Pfitzner & Braunfels
Markus Becker (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Constantin Trinks
One key aspect of Pfitzner’s endlessly fascinating Piano Concerto that immediately strikes home is its harmonic richness…Like most of Braunfels’s music that I’ve heard, [his concerto] suggests... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Morales: Missa Mille regretz & Missa Desilde al cavallero
Martha McLorinan (alto), Lynda Sayce (lute, vihuela), Graham Kirk (baritone), Sam Barrett (baritone), De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth, Eamonn Dougan
The large male vocal ensemble produces a rich, well-blended tone. The ensemble is easily their equal, and Hyperion is giving us a valuable series of recordings. Go for this one, and you will... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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A bold and dramatic account of Mozart's K475C minor Fantasia opens this memorable and imaginatively devised recital. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Instrumental Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Songs
RecommendedFrançois Le Roux (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Philippa Davies (flute)
This is the most resounding blow yet to be struck for the mélodies of Saint-Saëns. François Le Roux, with his incisive diction and ability to characterise each song, is a real champion for the... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded...all 11 albums with the same four singers, all beautifully controlled, all perfectly balanced and paced, and – perhaps most important... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Lane in wonderful debonair mode here, sparkling through a personal encore selection from Jamaican Rumba to a Toccata by his own father, and from Myra Hess to Dudley Moore. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2013
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No one who loves Schumann should miss this outstandingly fine new disc —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Chamber
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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No pianist today is more steeped in this idiom than Howard Shelley, who, true to form, dispatches both concertos with mingled flamboyance and limpid grace. —
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This recording surveys Cecilia McDowall’s substantial choral output, most of it written in the past two decades. She could scarcely have a better group to sing it than Stephen Layton’s Trinity... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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