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Hyperion New Release Sampler – September 2015

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Hyperion New Release Sampler – September 2015 --- 2015-09-00

Free download from Hyperion's website, including a booklet in epub and pdf format. Track 1 from 'Bach, Handel & Scarlatti: Gamba Sonatas' (CDA68045) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed for viola da gamba and harpsichord liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth Recording date: May 2014 Track 2 from 'Ornstein: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2' (CDA68084) Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) composed in 1927; also catalogued as SO610 or S610; commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; first performed on 1 January 1928 in Philadelphia, the composer at the piano liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, London Recording date: April 2014 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 3 from 'Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 6 – Ian Bostridge' (CDJ33126) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) composed: No 1 in 1864; Nos 2 & 3 & 4 probably in Bonn, summer 1868; published by Simrock in October 1868 Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800-1875) No 1: No XXVII of the Hellas section of Polydora, 1855 liner notes © 2015 Brahms biography © 2013 Recording venue: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London Recording date: June 2013 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 4 from 'Parry: I was glad & other choral works' (CDA68089) Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) composed in 1881; written for Trinity College Cambridge and Stanford; first performed on 19 February 1992 by St Paul's Cathedral choir, Stainer conducting text from the Bible, Luke 1: 46-55; Luke 2: 29-32 liner notes © 2015 Parry biography © 2005 Recording venue: Westminster Abbey, London Recording date: June 2014 Track 5 from 'Tallis: Ave, Dei patris filia & other sacred music' (CDA68095) Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585) composed in 1575 Cantiones sacrae liturgical text: Sixth Respond at Matins, Trinity Sunday Tallis biography © 2013 Recording venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle Recording date: March 2014 Track 6 from 'Perfect Polyphony' (Gimell CDGIM213) Jean Mouton (before 1459-1522) liturgical text liner notes © 2013 Mouton biography © 2012 Recording venue: Merton College Chapel, Oxford Track 7 from 'Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 3; Musorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition' (Signum Classics SIGCD426) Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) composed in 1897/8 liner notes © 1996 Recording venue: Snape Maltings, Suffolk Recording date: January 2015 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 8 from 'Rachmaninov, Shchedrin & Stravinsky: Piano Concertos & Capriccio' (Mariinsky MAR0587) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) composed in 1928/9; for piano and orchestra; first performed in December 1929 in Paris by the composer, Ernest Ansermet conducting liner notes © 2013 Stravinsky biography © 2011 Recording venue: Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Recording date: April 2015 Track 9 from 'Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3; Balakirev: Russia' (LSO LSO0779) Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) composed in 1935/6 liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Barbican, London Recording date: November 2014 Track 10 from 'Maxwell Davies & Panufnik: Symphonies No 10' (LSO LSO0767) Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) composed in 1988 liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Barbican, London Recording date: October 2014