1 January 1900
Fanfare, USA
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, Flos Campi, Mystical Songs
CDA30025  Hyperion 30th Anniversary series — Superseded by CDA66420 

‘Strongly recommended!’ (Fanfare, USA)
1 January 1900

Veracini: Sonate accademiche
CDA66871/3  3CDs Superseded by CDS44241/3 

‘The performances by the Locatelli Trio respond with spontaneity and expressive warmth to the wide-ranging effects, sometimes playful, at others sober and idiosyncratic of these fascinating pieces. Violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch articulates Veracini's melodic line with clarity and communicative charm … a welcome return to the catalogue’ (BBC Music Magazine)
1 January 1900
Positive Feedback
Veracini: Sonate accademiche
CDA66871/3  3CDs Superseded by CDS44241/3 

‘This is wonderfully lusty, celestial music, and it is thanks to Wallfisch that we hear both of these seldom associated qualities … this is a great musical treasure at a bargain price. Do not miss it’ (Positive Feedback)
1 January 1900
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs
Verdi & Strauss (R): String Quartets
CDA66317  Superseded by CDH55012 

‘An eminently recommendable issue’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
1 January 1900

Verdi & Strauss (R): String Quartets
CDA66317  Superseded by CDH55012 

‘The work couldn't ask for better advocacy’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
Fanfare, USA
Victorian Concert Overtures
CDA66515  Superseded by CDH55088 

‘A required purchase for Anglophiles’ (Fanfare, USA)
1 January 1900
American Record Guide
Victorian Concert Overtures
CDA66515  Superseded by CDH55088 

‘67 minutes of delightful, ear-catching musical cameos’ (American Record Guide)
1 January 1900

Victorian Concert Overtures
CDA66515  Superseded by CDH55088 

‘This praiseworthy Hyperion disc certainly deserves the consideration of all serious devotees of English music’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900

Vierne: Symphony No 2 & Les Angélus
CDA66284  Superseded by CDH55044 

‘Lovers of French late-Romantic organ music are well served by this disc made in 1987 when David Hill was in charge of the music at Westminster Cathedral and brilliantly revivfied it’ (BBC Music Magazine)
1 January 1900
American Record Guide
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras Nos 1 & 5
CDA66257  Superseded by CDH55316 

‘The interpretations are passionate … and what a voice … Gomez is equal to the best who came before her. Her light, agile, soaring voice rises ecstatically above the massed cellos’ dusky rain-forest wall of sound like the brilliant plumage of some rare Amazonian bird-in-flight … thoroughly captivating’ (American Record Guide)
1 January 1900

Villa-Lobos: Missa São Sebastião & other sacred music
CDH55470  Superseded by CDA66638 

«Une qualité d'interprétation en tous points remarquable … ceux qui aiment la musique chorale seront tout simplement comblés» (Diapason, France)
1 January 1900
Organists' Review
Villa-Lobos: Missa São Sebastião & other sacred music
CDH55470  Superseded by CDA66638 

‘The whole disc is a bright feather in the Corydon cap’ (Organists' Review)
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