Since you are interested in MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain (Songs by Gerald Finzi to words of Thomas Hardy), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
XAVIER SCHARWENKA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scharwenka: The Complete Chamber Music Lydia Morkovitch (violin) Levon Chilingirian (violin) Seta Tanyel (piano) etc [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 26/Nov/2002 ] "I have seldom heard a pianist on such good terms with her instrument" (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Three String Quartets & Piano Quintet Piers Lane (piano) / New Budapest Quartet [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2003 ] 'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Complete Music for Winds London Winds / Michael Collins [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 22/Jan/2004 ] 'London Winds are second to none in terms of technical accomplishment, expressive commitment and warmth of timbre' (BBC Music Magazine) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Catherine Denley (contralto) David James (counter-tenor) Maldwyn Davies (tenor) Michael George (bass) / Sixteen / Christophers [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 25/May/2005 ] 'The performance is one of extraordinary quality. Unequivocally recommended' (The Sydney Sun Herald) |
HANDEL
Harpsichord Suites Paul Nicholson, harpsichord [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 26/Nov/2002 ] "Superbly recorded" (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
HANDEL
Organ Concertos [2 CDs] Paul Nicholson (organ) / Frances Kelly (harp) / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Timothy Brown, director / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] 'The great coup of this new recording ... is to have secured the instrument on which the composer played. Nicholson's playing is unfailingly stylish' - The Times |
LOCATELLI
Sonatas, Op 4 The Raglan Baroque Players [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 'I found myself effortlessly carried along by the exuberance of Wallfisch's direction and the lively response of the players. An invigorating release' - BBC Music Magazine |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks Rebecca Evans, Bonaventura Bottone, Sarah Walker, Neil Jenkins, Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra. Matthew Best [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] 'For sheer tunefulness it is hard to resist... an impressive achievement... A set which deserves to win many new friends for this absudly little-known score' (The Independent) |
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
The Immortal Hour (complete opera recording) Roderick Kennedy (bass) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Maldwyn Davies (tenor) Anne Dawson (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Alan G Melville [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] 'This superb complete recording was a salutary shock: the opera is a kind of masterpiece, bleak, passionate and inspired ... Enthusiastically recommended' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets The Salomon Quartet / Simon Whistler (viola) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 22/May/2005 ] 'Gorgeous performances of some of Mozart's chamber masterworks. Highly recommended' - Classical CD Scout |