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Hyperion New Release Sampler – October 2015

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Hyperion New Release Sampler – October 2015 --- 2015-10-00

Free download from Hyperion's website, including a booklet in epub and pdf format. Track 1 from 'Janáček & Smetana: String Quartets' (CDA67997) Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) composed in autumn 1923; 'Kraytserova sonata'; commissioned by the Czech Quartet liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth Recording date: August 2014 Track 2 from 'Schubert: Impromptus, Piano pieces & Variations' (CDA68107) Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Nos 1 & 2 composed in May 1828; No 3 probably autumn 1827; published in 1868 liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth Recording date: December 2014 Piano: Steinway & Sons Track 3 from 'Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos' (CDA68063) Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848-1890) composed in 1870; first published in February 1873; dedicated to 'His Majesty Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, in deepest reverence' liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin Recording date: August 2013 Track 4 from 'Arias for Benucci' (CDA68078) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed in 1790; aria for Guglielmo discarded from Così fan tutte, K588 Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) liner notes © 2015 Mozart biography © 2007 Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London Recording date: November 2013 Track 5 from 'Clausen & Paulus: Calm on the listening ear of night & other choral works' (CDA68110) René Clausen (b1953) commissioned by Rupert Gough and Royal Holloway Choir who gave the first performance at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music on 10 May 2014 text from the Bible, Luke 11: 2b-4 liner notes © 2015 Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London Recording date: June 2014 Track 6 from 'Szymanowski & Hahn: Violin Sonatas' (Signum Classics SIGCD432) Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) composed in 1904; first performed by Pawel Kochanski and Artur Rubinstein in Warsaw in 1909 liner notes © 2009 Recording venue: Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex Recording date: April 2015 Track 7 from 'Bruckner: Symphony No 9' (Signum Classics SIGCD431) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Leopold Nowak (1904-1991) edited in 1951 liner notes © 2014 Recording venue: Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Recording date: August 2014 Track 8 from 'Inside tracks – the James Rhodes mix tape' (Signum Classics SIGCD425) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) liner notes © 2005 Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk Recording date: June 2008 Track 9 from 'Marcello: Psalms' (Signum Classics SIGCD391) Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) No 51: Infinite six-voice triple canon in lower fifth Charles Avison (1709-1770) text from the Bible, Psalms; No 51: Psalm 18: 4 Recording venue: Église Notre-Dame d'Herment Recording date: August 2012 Track 10 from 'Rameau: Anacréon' (Signum Classics SIGCD402) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) composed in 1754 Louis de Cahusac (1706-1759) liner notes © 2015 Rameau biography © 2004 Recording venue: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London Recording date: February 2014 Track 11 from 'Mozart: Il re pastore' (Signum Classics SIGCD433) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed in 1775 Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) liner notes © 2015 Mozart biography © 2007 Recording venue: St John's, Smith Square, London Recording date: July 2014