Hyperion New Release Sampler – May 2017

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2017-05

Label: Hyperion

Free download from Hyperion's website, including artwork in jpg, a booklet in epub and pdf format.

Track 1 from 'Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Humoreske & Blumenstück' (CDA68186)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
composed in 1838/9; published in 1839; originally entitled Grosse Humoreske
liner notes © 2017
Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth
Recording date: June 2016
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 2 from 'Czerny: Piano Concertos' (CDA68138)
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
liner notes © 2017
Recording venue: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, Tasmania
Recording date: May 2015

Tracks 3 & 4 from 'Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully & Leçons de ténèbres' (CDA68093)
François 'Le Grand' Couperin (1668-1733)
track 3: published in 1725 under the title Concert instrumental sous le titre d’Apothéose composé à la mémoire immortelle de l’incomparable Monsieur de Lully
track 4: published between 1713 and 1717, text from the Bible, Lamentations 1: 1-5, 6-9, 10-14
liner notes © 2017
Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Recording dates: track 3 January 2014, track 4 March 2013

Tracks 5 to 7 from 'Guyot: Te Deum laudamus & other sacred music' (CDA68180)
Jean Guyot (?1520-1588)
6vv, liturgical text (Hymn to the Trinity)
liner notes © 2017
Recording venue: Kartause Mauerbach, Vienna
Recording date: May 2016

Track 8 from 'Organ Fireworks World Tour' (CDA68214)
Guy Weitz (1883-1970)
composed in 1939
liner notes © 2009
Recording venue: Västerås Cathedral
Recording date: June 2008

Tracks 9 & 10 from 'Verdi: Requiem' (LSO Live LSO0800)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
composed in 1874
liner notes © 2008
Recording venue: Barbican, London
Recording date: September 2016

Tracks 11 & 12 from 'Bach: St John Passion' (King's Cambridge KGS0018)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
first performed at St Nicholas, Leipzig, on Good Friday 1724; successively revised up to 1749
text from the Bible, mainly derived from John
liner notes © 2013
Recording venue: King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Recording date: March 2016

Track 13 from 'Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87' (Signum Classics SIGCD396)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
composed in 1950/1
liner notes © 2014
Recording venue: Wyastone Leys Concert Hall, Monmouthshire
Recording date: February 2014

Track 14 from 'Mahler: The Complete Symphonies' (Signum Classics SIGCD363)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
composed in 1909/1910
liner notes © 2010
Recording venue: Royal Festival Hall, London
Recording date: October 2011

Track 15 from 'Park: Footsteps; Talbot: Path of Miracles' (Signum Classics SIGCD471)
Joby Talbot (b1971)
composed in 2005
Robert Dickinson (b1962)
liner notes © 2006
Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London
Recording date: July 2005

Track 16 from 'Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 4' (Signum Classics SIGCD804)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
composed in 1708/17; revised into Leipzig Chorales collection, the '18' circa 1744/7
liner notes © 1996
Recording venue: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Recording date: April 2015