The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) [IMPORT]

Stephen Varcoe (Performer, Composer), Thea King (Performer, Composer), Thomas Arne (Composer), Luigi Boccherini (Composer), Anton Bruckner (Composer), Ferruccio Busoni (Composer), Charles the Bold (Composer), Martin Codax (Composer), Arcangelo Corelli (Composer), Bernhard Henrik Crusell (Composer), Charles Dibdin (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Ernest Bristow Farrar (Composer), William Percy French (Composer), Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer), Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Nicola Matteis (Composer), Felix Mendelssohn (Composer), Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (Composer), Henry Purcell (Artist), Charles Villiers Stanford (Artist), John Sheppard (Artist), Joseph Haydn (Artist), Erik Satie (Artist), Robert Schumann (Artist), Dmitri Shostakovich (Artist)

Product Details

• Performer: Stephen Varcoe, Thea King
• Composer: Stephen Varcoe, Thea King, Thomas Arne, Luigi Boccherini, Anton Bruckner, et al.
• Audio CD (February 13, 1995)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZDX
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,839 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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

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

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

By	E. B. Frankovic (Visalia, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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