Orchestral & Symphonic

Hyperion presents a rarity in their ongoing Anglo-Australian artistic collaboration: music by an Australian composer who was once at the heart of the English establishment. Malcolm Williamson was one of many Australian creative artists who relocated to...

Hyperion Knight is a pianist with a romantic touch. Known for the diversity of his repertoire, he is equally at home in serious classics and popular standards. Hyperion's recordings range from Beethoven to the Beatles, and in addition to regular...

Hyperion -? Stanford: Requiem by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins - Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano), James Way (tenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone) - University of Birmingham Voices, City of...

Hungarian trumpeter Tams Pfalvi's debut CD presents an intriguing blend of the old and new with creative transcriptions of Baroque and Classical era concertos, along with rarely recorded modern pieces by Mauricio Kagel, Gy?rgy Ligeti and more. Pfalvi's...

Hungarian composer Eugene Zdor, a friend of B?la Bart?k, won renown in Vienna before having to leave for America in 1939 where he eventually became Mikl?s R?zsa's exclusive orchestrator in Hollywood. His music is often redolent of his native soil as...

Hummel, conductor, composer and pianist, whose death ended the great Viennese lineage of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, produced a series of inspired arrangements of Mozart's symphonies between 1823-24. As a child of eight he had lodged and studied with...

Hugo Alfven's music has always been close to the hearts of the Swedish people, and ranks among some of the most significant and representative of the spirit of the country. Alfven is known as a cheerful entertainer in compositions such as Den forlorade...

Howard Shelley's survey of the piano music is an undoubted highlight of the Mendelssohn revival. In this, the final instalment of the series, he focuses on late works and posthumous publications.1. Mendelssohn: Albumblatt in E minor 'Lied ohne Worte', Op...

Howard Hanson, a composer of imagination and sweep and a colorist of huge eloquence, is one of the most approachable of all twentieth century symphonists. His guiding spirit was always Sibelius, and in the Symphony No. 1 'Nordic' he used the same key.1...

How to begin? No beginning... never ending reverberation, Antoine Beuger writes in the accompanying notes to Leo Svirsky's River Without Banks. Dedicated to his first piano teacher Irena Orlov, River Without Banks is a mesmerizing, emotional collection...

How is viola da gamba literature hidden in keyboard music during the reign of Louis XIV in France? R?cit, Salom? Gasselin's first album, explores this forgotten practice at a time when the viola da gamba was just becoming a solo instrument in France.1...

How composers draw their creative lives to a close continues to fascinate. Are their final works the culmination of all that has gone before or suggest what might have come next? Did illness enhance their profundity or diminish their powers? Can we...