Andrew Hill

  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces / Wells, Craft
    Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces / Wells, Craft

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    Robert Craft leads a thrilling performance of Oedipus Rex--incisive, swift, and as mercilessly inevitable as fate itself. From the opening bars, where those spine-chilling runs in the trumpet penetrate the orchestral tutti like screams of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2005

  • Stravinsky: Music For Two Pianos / Frith, Hill
    Stravinsky: Music For Two Pianos / Frith, Hill

    $19.99

    Stravinsky composed his music at the keyboard, often struggling to play his own complex rhythms. It is not surprising therefore that many of his symphonic works also exist in his own piano versions, such as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 26, 1996

  • Stanford: Choral Music / Hill, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony
    Stanford: Choral Music / Hill, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony

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    Choral music was central to Charles Villiers Stanford's life as a composer. Balancing solemnity with rapturous affirmation. The Resurrection was his first major choral work, written while he was studying under Carl Reinecke in Leipzig...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2016

  • Schoenberg: Gurre-lieder / Craft, Philharmonia Orchestra
    Schoenberg: Gurre-lieder / Craft, Philharmonia Orchestra

    $29.99

    ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 150 (1874-1951) REVIEW: As Waldemar, Stephen O’Mara is heroic and declamatory, with Wagnerian strength, yet lyrical tone and sweetness. As Tove, Melanie Diener sounds lovely, especially in one of my favorite sections, "Du...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2005

  • Poulenc: Concerto For Organ; Petit: Concertino; Barber: Toccata Festiva
    Poulenc: Concerto For Organ; Petit: Concertino; Barber: Toccata Festiva

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    It’s interesting to see even smallish labels like LINN offering a series of reissues, an indication of just how easy it has been to amass a substantial catalog of recordings. Even more intriguing is the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2014

  • Naxos Bach Edition 4 - Bach: Harpsichord Concertos II / Hill
    Naxos Bach Edition 4 - Bach: Harpsichord Concertos II / Hill

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    One of the nicest things about Naxos' complete survey of Bach's orchestral music is that each disc always includes a substantial musical "bonus" that distinguishes it from the numerous competing performances available. In this case,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2000

  • Naxos Bach Edition 3 - Bach: Harpsichord Concertos I / Hill
    Naxos Bach Edition 3 - Bach: Harpsichord Concertos I / Hill

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    Bach's D minor Concerto BWV 1052 is one of his very greatest works, whether heard in its arrangements for harpsichord solo, violin solo, or even organ solo (first movement) as the prelude to one of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2000

  • Masatora Goya: Dream Of Sailing
    Masatora Goya: Dream Of Sailing

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    Masatora Goya is assistant director of the concert series Vox Novus Composer’s Voice. Alturas Duo - guitarist Scott Hill and violist Carlos Boltes - took first prize at the 2006 New England Int’l Chamber Music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Kagel: Duodramen, Szenario, Liturgien / Saarbrucken, Et Al
    Kagel: Duodramen, Szenario, Liturgien / Saarbrucken, Et Al

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    Knowing his earlier work, one might expect a certain amount of ironic and subversive wit with any of Mauricio Kagel’s pieces, but this new Naxos issue is full of deadly serious stuff, and all the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 12, 2006

  • Judith Weir: Storm
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    The BBC Singers continue their critically lauded and award- nominated series of composer-led recordings with a new disc of works by Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir. Recorded in the unique acoustic of the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 09, 2015

  • Howells: Stabat Mater  / Hill, Bach Choir
    Howells: Stabat Mater / Hill, Bach Choir

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    Its length – nearly 50 minutes – and size of performing forces–tenor soloist, choir, and orchestra–certainly qualify Herbert Howells’ Stabat Mater as a significant work. And indeed the seven-movement piece, which took more than five...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Howells: Hymnus Paradisi, Sir Patrick Spens / Hill, Et Al
    Howells: Hymnus Paradisi, Sir Patrick Spens / Hill, Et Al

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    Includes work(s) for choir by Herbert Howells. Ensembles: Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill (Conductor, Organ). Soloists: James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams, Katy Butler.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 26, 2007

  • Handel: Partenope / Kuijken, Jacobs, Laki, La Petite Bande
    Handel: Partenope / Kuijken, Jacobs, Laki, La Petite Bande

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    Elsewhere in this issue, in choosing the records of the year, I have singled Out the new version of Handel's opera Admeto for its broadly successful attempt at a true Handelian style. Well, those words...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 14, 2015

  • Handel: Messiah / Hill, BBC Singers, Norwegian Wind Ensemble
    Handel: Messiah / Hill, BBC Singers, Norwegian Wind Ensemble

    $22.99

    The BBC Singers and conductor David Hill join with one of the world´s oldest continuously running orchestras, The Norwegian Wind Ensemble (NWE), to present this major new arrangement of George Frideric Handel’s most celebrated oratorio...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 04, 2019

  • Finzi: Intimations Of Immortality, Etc / Hill, Et Al
    Finzi: Intimations Of Immortality, Etc / Hill, Et Al

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    This disc represents an easy first choice in Finzi's Intimations of Immortality, one of the masterpieces of the English choral literature and a surprisingly neglected one too. Its only serious competition comes from Richard Hickox...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 16, 2006