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HYP12

The Essential Hyperion, Vol. 1

Super-budget price sampler — Deleted
Recording details: Various dates
Various recording venues
Produced by Various producers
Engineered by Various engineers
Release date: September 1993
Total duration: 77 minutes 8 seconds

Cover artwork: Phaeton (detail) (1878) by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
 
Concerto di Trombe a tre Trombette  Nicola Matteis (d1695)
1
Allegro  [1'25]
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Stephen Keavy (trumpet), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
Abdelazar, or The Moor's Revenge Z570  Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
2
Suite Movement 2: Rondeau. Hornpipe  [1'50]

The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman (conductor)
Who can from joy refrain? Z342  Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
3
A Prince of glorious race descended  [3'34]

Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)
The Morning  Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
4
Extract: The glitt'ring sun   The glittering sun begins to rise  [1'37]
Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman (conductor)
The Ephesian Matron, or The Widow's Tears  Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
5
No 11, Vaudeville: Thus old wits in wicked satires (Father/Maid/Matron/Centurion)  [2'35]

Andrew Knight (bass), Jane Streeton (soprano), Bronwen Mills (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)
Morning, Communion and Evening Service in G Op 81  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
6
Evening Canticle 1: Magnificat   My soul doth magnify the Lord  [4'35]

Jeremy Budd (treble), St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor), Andrew Lucas (organ)
7
Libera nos, salva nos I  [2'56]  John Sheppard (c1515-1558)

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Cantigas de amigo  Martin Codax (fl1230-1230)
8
Mandad' ei comigo  [2'36]

Sinfonye
9
Ma dame, trop vous mesprenés  [1'36]  Charles the Bold (1433-1477)

Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)
10
Locus iste a Deo factus est  [3'22]  Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Corydon Singers, Matthew Best (conductor)
Symphony No 14 in A major G498  Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
11
Tempo di Minuetto, con un poco di motto  [3'23]
London Festival Orchestra, Ross Pople (conductor)
Symphony No 94 in G major 'Surprise' Hob I:94  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
12
Finale: Allegro di molto  [3'54]
The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman (conductor)
13
Gymnopédie No 1  [3'31]  Erik Satie (1866-1925), arr. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
Liederkreis Op 39  Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
14
Waldesgespräch   Es ist schon spät, es ist schon kalt  [2'18]

Margaret Price (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
15
Albumblatt in Walzerform S166  [0'45]  Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Leslie Howard (piano)
24 Preludes and Fugues Op 87  Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
16
No 7 in A major: Prelude and Fugue  [3'32]
Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)
17
Phil the Fluter's Ball  [3'04]  Percy French (1854-1920)

Dame Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor Op 30  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
18
Allegro  [3'52]
Malcolm Binns (piano), English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
19
O salutaris hostia  [3'35]  Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585)

Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
Vier Canzonen D688  Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
20
Da quel sembiante appresi  [2'00]

Arleen Auger (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Violin Sonata in G minor Op 5 No 5  Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
21
Vivace  [1'43]
Convivium
Clarinet Quartet No 1 in E flat major Op 2  Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
22
Rondo (Allegro vivace)  [3'42]
Dame Thea King (clarinet), The Allegri String Quartet
String Sextet in A major Op 48  Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
23
Furiant: Presto  [4'10]
The Raphael Ensemble
Four pieces for string quartet Op 81  Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
24
No 2 in A minor: Scherzo  [3'41]
Coull Quartet
25
Come you, Mary Op 21 No 2  [0'55]  Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
26
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein BWV734a  [2'09]  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
27
Deus in adiutorium  [2'32]  Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c1590-1664)

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
28
Sortie in E flat  [2'16]  Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1870)

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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