The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) [Import]

Stephen Varcoe (Performer, Composer), Nicola Matteis (Composer), Henry Purcell (Composer), Thomas Arne (Composer), Charles Dibdin (Composer), Charles Villiers Stanford (Composer), John [Composer] Sheppard (Composer), Martin Codax (Composer), Charles the Bold (Composer), Anton Bruckner (Composer), Luigi Boccherini (Composer), Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer), Erik Satie (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), William Percy French (Composer), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer), Thomas [Composer] Tallis (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), John Sheppard (Composer), Joseph Haydn (Artist), Dmitri Shostakovich (Artist), Percy French (Artist), Thomas Tallis (Artist), Franz Schubert (Artist), Arcangelo Corelli (Artist), Bernhard Crusell (Artist), Antonin Dvorak (Artist), Felix Mendelssohn (Artist), Ernest Farrar (Artist), Johann Sebastian Bach (Artist), Juan Gutierrez De Padilla (Artist), Louis-James-Alfred Lefebure-Wely (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Stephen Varcoe
• Composer: Stephen Varcoe, Nicola Matteis, Henry Purcell, Thomas Arne, Charles Dibdin, et al.
• Audio CD (February 13, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZDX
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #21 in Music > Classical > Chamber Music > Sextets
  • #88 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Odes

Track Listings

1. Concerto for 2 trumpets: Allegro

2. Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570: Rondeau

3. Who can from joy refrain? (Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 342: A Prince of glorious

4. The Morning, solo cantata for voice, flute (or recorder), strings & continuo (Six Cantatas, No. 5): The glitt'ring sun

5. The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears, a comic serenata: Vaudeville

6. Evening Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) in G major, Op. 81: Magnificat in G

7. Libera nos, 2 antiphons for chorus

8. Mandad' ei comigo, cantiga for voice and accompaniment

9. Ma dame, trop vous mesprenés

10. Locus iste, gradual for chorus in C major, WAB 23

11. Symphony in A major, G. 518 (Op. 37/4): Tempo di Minuetto

12. Symphony No. 94 in G major ('Surprise'/'The Drumstroke'/'Mit dem Paukenschlag'), H. 1/94: Finale

13. Gymnopedie for piano No. 1

14. Liederkreis, 12 songs for voice & piano, Op. 39: Waldesgesprach

15. Albumblatt in Walzerform, for piano in A major, S. 166 (LW A83)

16. Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 7 in A major, Op. 87/7: No.7 in A major

17. Phil the Fluter's Ball

18. Concerto, for piano & orchestra in C sharp minor, Op. 30: Allegro

19. O salutaris hostia (also set as 'O praise the Lord'), motet (antiphon) for 5 voices

20. Canzonen (4), for voice & piano, D. 688: No 3, Da qeul sembiante

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This truly is essential!, October 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) (Audio CD)

What a brilliant idea from one of our leading record companies! On this disc, they have assembled a programme of highlights from their vast collection of choral, vocal, orchestral, and solo instrumental music that is very satisfying. As with most CDs of this sort, it is a case of some tracks not appealing as much as others- I for instance am a lover of choral music so the gorgeous renditions of Stanford's "Magnificat" by St. Paul's Cathedral Choir or John Sheppard's divine motet "Libera Nos" by the Sixteen are obvious preferences of mine. However, whether you seek dyed-in-the-wool orchestral classics as Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, less familiar works performed by period artists (such as "'E irei Madr'a Vigo" by ancient Spanish composer Martin Codax), or snippets of breathtaking instrumental solos (such as the rousing performance of Lefebure-Wely's "Sortie in E flat" which is sadly only an excerpt), this disc is bound to have something on it for you. And all of it is finely recorded.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST BUY!!!, March 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) (Audio CD)

If I had to choose one CD to spend a month locked in isolation with, this would be the one. Its varied but it flows well together. It's restive and soothing. The quality is beyond excellent!!! At the price, anyone is a fool not to own it, and give it lavishly as gifts. Its gorgeous, lush and fabulous! Everyone that hears it in our home, falls in love with it!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, Excellent Value!, July 26, 2000

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E. B. Frankovic (Visalia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) (Audio CD)

Rarely can one buy so much good music for so little. This compilation features almost 80 minutes of high quality music.