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Track(s) taken from CDA66584

Chaconne, Op 8

composer

Peter Jacobs (piano)
Recording details: June 1991
St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mike Skeet
Engineered by Mike Skeet
Release date: April 1992
Total duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Jacobs treats the music with affection, but also respect; he's served by an excellent recording’ (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

‘Well worth the attention of those who enjoy piano music that seeks merely to soothe, charm and enchant’ (Gramophone)

‘In this well recorded, presented and imaginatively conceived issue we see again just how well Hyperion can produce the goods! It is a particular pleasure to see this issue on the market’ (CDReview)
Already in an early work, Chaconne, Op 8, charm vies with an absolutely assured technique. Not that this is any real sense a strict invention on a ground bass, but rather an elegantly generalized evocation of Baroque – the first of several essays in playful archaism, with a few unexpected modulations that anticipate the witty incongruities of Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’ symphony. Or, rather, the cheerful stylistic promiscuity of Poulenc – as becomes clear in Autrefois.

from notes by Calum MacDonald © 1992

Chaconne, opus 8 montre un charme qui rivalise avec une technique d’une assurance absolue. Ce n’est pas strictement une réelle invention sur une basse contrainte mais plutôt une évocation élégamment généralisée de Baroque – le premier de plusieurs essais en archaïsme enjoué, avec quelques modulations inattendues qui devancent les incongruités spirituelles de la Symphonie «Classique» de Prokofiev. Ou plutôt, la joyeuse promiscuité stylistique de Poulenc – comme l’illustre Autrefois.

extrait des notes rédigées par Calum MacDonald © 1992
Français: Alain Midoux

Bereits in einem frühen Werk, der Chaconne Op. 8, wetteifert Charme mit vollkommen sicherer Technik. Dieses Werk ist keine wirklich strenge Invention über einem Generalbaß, sondern eine elegant verallgemeinerte Beschwörung des Barock – der erste von mehreren Versuchen in spielerischer Archaik, mit einigen unerwarteten Wendungen, die auf die geistreichen Stilbrüche in Prokofjews „Klassischer“ Sinfonie vorausblicken. Oder vielmehr auf die unbeschwerte Stilvielfalt Poulencs – das wird bei Autrefois deutlich.

aus dem Begleittext von Calum MacDonald © 1992
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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