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For his Hyperion debut, pianist Luís Duarte has chosen a selection of works by one of the major figures in twentieth-century Portuguese music. Most of the music in Glosas & other piano works by Fernando Lopes-Graça may date from a single decade—the 1950s—but it explores a wide range of styles, moods and influences, from the opening set of Glosas, ‘glosses’ on eleven traditional Portuguese songs (folk music exerted a powerful influence on Lopes-Graça throughout his life); through five graceful Lullabies, three of which are heard here in first recordings; to the concluding Album for the young pianist which, beyond its obvious educational purpose, invites stylistic comparisons with Bartók’s Mikrokosmos.

In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Takács Quartet, the last twenty of these years spent recording for Hyperion, we’re pleased to make their glorious catalogue available at the reduced price of around £10 per CD (£8 or less for lossless downloads) until the end of January. Some highlights are listed below and are included on Vol. 2 of our December sampler (free to download), and you can also » Click here for a full listing.

Newly available from Signum Classics we have Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 3 & 9 in performances from Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, performances brought vividly to life on Gaudagni violin and a Walter & Sohn fortepiano from 1822. As Bezuidenhout convincingly argues in the accompanying booklet, tackling this music on instruments of Beethoven’s own day is no mere historical exercise, rather it brings to the fore the radical volatility and danger hard-wired into these ground-breaking compositions.

Malcolm Binns – A 90th Birthday Tribute is a glorious new 4-CD box from APR—blistering concertos by Beethoven, Liszt, Prokofiev and Lyapunov (rare survivals from BBC broadcasts in the early 1960s), plus solo works by Rubinstein, Medtner and Alkan, and the complete Chopin Études. Malcolm Binns has been the source of so much material for the label in his capacity as a fanatical collector of the rarest of 78s (and indeed examples from his equally abundant foraging of photos and other memorabilia have also graced many APR and Hyperion booklets over the years), and so it is a particular pleasure to be reminded here of his own inimitable pianism.

Recording for their own label, the National Symphony Orchestra have recorded Mahler’s Symphony No 7, fully capturing the power and depth of its enigmatic mystery and majesty. Gianandrea Noseda’s expertise in grand orchestral works brings Mahler’s vision to life, offering a compelling interpretation that unveils the emotional and musical complexity of the symphony.