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Hyperion New Release Sampler – March 2015

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Hyperion New Release Sampler – March 2015 --- 2015-03-00

Free download from Hyperion's website, including a booklet in epub and pdf format. Track 1 from 'Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Concertos' (CDA68037) Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) composition begun in 1932 at the request of Gregor Piatigorsky; first performed in 1938 by Lev Berezovsky under Alexander Melik-Pashayev liner notes © 2009 Recording venue: Alte Oper Frankfurt Recording date: December 2013 Track 2 from 'Szymański & Mykietyn: Music for string quartet' (CDA68085) Paweł Szymański (b1954) composed in 1992; commissioned by the BBC; written in memory of Jerzy Stajuda; first performed for a BBC Radio 3 broadcast by the Brodsky Quartet in August 1993 liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk Recording date: February 2014 Track 3 from 'Liszt: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 – Gerald Finley' (CDA67956) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) composed in 1844; LW N26 Victor Hugo (1802-1885) liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London Recording date: April 2013 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 4 from 'Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 3' (CDA68033) Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960) composed in 1923/4 liner notes © 2015 Dohnányi biography © 1993 Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk Recording date: April 2014 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 5 from 'Astorga & Boccherini: Stabat mater' (Helios CDH55287) Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) composed in 1781; for soprano and strings; revised in 1800 for two sopranos and tenor liturgical text from the Sequence for the Feast of Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary liner notes © 1999 Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London Recording date: February 1999 Track 6 from 'Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3' (Helios CDH55440) Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) composed in 1912-13; first performed in Pavolvsk on 5 September 1913, the composer as soloist; revised version first performed by the composer in Paris on 8 May 1924, Serge Koussevitsky conducting liner notes © 1996 Prokofiev biography © 2009 Recording venue: Blackheath Concert Halls, London Recording date: December 1995 Track 7 & 8 from 'Pärt: Tintinnabuli' (Gimell CDGIM049) Arvo Pärt (b1935) composed in 1988/91; for the RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin liturgical text liner notes © 1998 Recording venue: Merton College Chapel, Oxford Recording date: January 2014 Track 9 from 'Berlioz: Harold en Italie & Cléopâtre' (LSO LSO0760) Berlioz biography © 2012 Recording venue: Barbican, London Recording date: November 2013 Track 10 from 'Mozart: Divertimenti' (Linn CKD479) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) liner notes © 2015 reprinted from the New York Philomusica synoptic edition of the Mozart divertimenti and wind serenades by permission Mozart biography © 2007 Recording venue: Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow Recording date: April 2014 Track 11 from 'Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings; Shostakovich: String Quartet No 2' (Linn CKD472) Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) liner notes © 2014 Tchaikovsky biography © 2011 Recording venue: Caird Hall, Dundee Recording date: December 2013 Track 12 from 'Brahms & Schumann: Lieder' (Linn CKD443) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) probably composed in Bonn, summer 1868; published in November 1868 verse 1; from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (folk text) verse 2; 1849 from Georg Scherer (1828-1909) liner notes © 2015 Brahms biography © 2013 Recording venue: Crear Studio, Argyll Recording date: October 2013 Track 13 from 'Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 4, 8 & 11' (Signum Classics SIGCD418) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) composed in 1960 liner notes © 2000 Shostakovich biography © 2004 Recording venue: St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford Recording date: June 2014 Track 14 from 'In the Midst of Life – Music from the Baldwin Partbooks I' (Signum Classics SIGCD408) John Taverner (c1490-1545) text from the Bible (Psalm 42: 1-2) liner notes © 2014 Taverner biography © 2000 Recording venue: Church of St Michael and All Angels, Oxford Recording date: January 2014 Track 15 from 'Out of darkness – Music from Lent to Trinity' (Signum Classics SIGCD409) Fernand Laloux (1901-1970) liturgical text liner notes © 2014 Recording venue: Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge Recording date: July 2014 Track 16 from 'A Knight's Progress' (Signum Classics SIGCD410) Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946) composed in 1914 pre-Medieval anonymous text Urbs beata Hierusalem John Mason Neale (1818-1866) translator Hymns Ancient and Modern 396 liner notes © 1990 Bairstow biography © 2005 Recording venue: Temple Church, London Recording date: July 2014