Since you are interested in Virtuoso Strauss Transcriptions, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Concertos & Dances Kathryn Stott (piano) / Malcolm Stewart (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'Yet another definitive and indispensable addition to the recorded repertoire of British music... Go forth, purchase, and enjoy!' - Fanfare, USA |
SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Mats Lidstrom (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "These artists radiate total conviction and a life-enhancing vitality and sensitivity" Penguin Guide |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Felicity lott (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] BEST OF THE YEAR, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE BBC CD REVIEW 'BUILDING A LIBRARY' FIRST CHOICE |
ALESSANDRO & DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Salve Regina, Cantatas & Motets Deborah York (soprano) James Bowman (countertenor) Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - 'Congratulations to Hyperion on imaginative programming of repertoire, some not otherwise available on disc. Highly recommended ... for repeated enjoyable listening' (BBC Music... |
CHOPIN
Preludes & Impromptus Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] 'Ohlsson is a powerful and committed player, and is afforded very good sound by the engineers … This is almost certainly how these pieces were played in Chopin's time' (Mail on Sunday) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Missa Caput and the story of the Salve regina (The Spirits of England and France vol. 4) Gothic Voices / Christopher Page, director [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] 'A very special achievement … Music of the very highest order, seldom recorded. Essential listening!' - GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE |
NICOLAS GOMBERT
Gombert: Missa Tempore Paschali Henry's Eight [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "This second instalment of Gombert from Henry's Eight is cause for celebration. Gombert has found worthy champions" (Gramophone) |
CASTELLO / PICCHI
The Floating City - Sonatas, canzonas and dances by two of Monteverdi’s contemporaries His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 21/Mar/2011 ] "This is a very fine recording. Not only is the music fascinating but the performances are special. Buy it." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb March 2011) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Grand Tour: Music from 16th- & 17th-century Italy, Spain and Germany His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "Worthy of unqualified recommendation at full price. At budget price an absolute bargain." (MusicWeb June 2010) |
GRECHANINOV
Vespers (All-Night Vigil, Op. 59 "Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye") Holst Singers, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Highly attractive and unstuffy Russian liturgical works in attractive performances" (Classic CD) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Mass in D minor & Te Deum Joan Rodgers (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (alto), Keith Lewis (tenor) / Croydon Singers & Croydon Orchestra, Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "Highest honours must go to the outstanding 140-voice chorus who sing with earth-shattering conviction, utmost clarity of diction and enviable precision of ensemble and intonation." BBC Music Magazine |
PERCY GRAINGER
Jungle Book & other choral works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Generous timing, discoveries, Delian gauzy harmonies, tangy instrumentation, sentimentality, aureate vocal light, succinct and touching settings." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Jan 2011) |
JOHANN SCHELLE
Schelle: Sacred Music The King's Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 'This important recording is fine proof of Schelle's imagination and invention … Robert King should be congratulated for an outstanding espousal of another of Bach's forebears' (Early Music Review) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: 3 Violin Sonatas Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] 'Subtle enough to suggest that for both artists these performances were a revelatory voyage of discovery' (Gramophone) |
EUGEN d'ALBERT
Solo Piano Music Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/May/2013 ] 'A superb recital ... provoking astonishment that music of such quality could have lain neglected for so long. No praise could be high enough for Piers Lane whose playing throughout is of a superb musical intelligence, sensitivity and scintillating... |
JOHN TAVERNER
Taverner: The Western Wynde Mass / O Splendor gloriae / Te Deum The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] "The only reason not to buy this excellent CD is that it will make you want the five other recordings in the series" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Feb 2008) |