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BRAHMS COMPLETE SONGS VOLUME 1 Graham Johnson’s complete Schuber t and Schumann songs series for Hyperion are landmarks in the history of recorded music. Now this indefatigable performer and scholar turns to the songs and vocal works of Brahms. Hyperion is delighted to present the celebrated mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager in this first volume of the series. ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER GRAHAM JOHNSON

Compact Disc CDJ33121

KODÁLY SONATA FOR SOLO CELLO ADAGIO, SONATINA, EPIGRAMS ROMANCE LYRIQUE The wonderful young cellist Natalie Clein has been a familiar name since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994. Since then, she has pursued a distinguished career performing with the most celebrated orchestras and conductors around the world. For her Hyperion debut she turns to a composer who is extremely close to her hear t, the great Hungarian national composer Zoltán Kodály, whose Sonata for solo cello is one of the giants of the reper toire. NATALIE CLEIN / JULIUS DRAKE

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BRIGGS MASS FOR NOTRE DAME David Briggs is renowned worldwide for his brilliant improvisations and is also a prolific composer. This disc includes his Messe pour Notre Dame, and features five movements of his own improvisations. These display a masterful range of mood and colour. There is delicacy, reflection and repose, alongside mighty bombast and truly gothic ‘shock and awe’. Listening to them is a uniquely thrilling musical experience. THE CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE / DAVID BRIGGS STEPHEN LAYTON

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WILLAERT MISSA MENTE TOTA & MOTETS The all-male vocal ensemble Cinquecento have won great praise for their recordings of Renaissance rarities. Their tone, vocal flexibility, collective and individual musicianship and commitment to their chosen reper toire places them at the very forefront of modern-day specialists in this music. Their latest disc features the music of Adrian Willaer t, a contemporary of Josquin and for many years chapel master of the Venetian Basilica di San Marco. CINQUECENTO Compact Disc CDA67749

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BRITTEN SONGS & PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE The multi-award-winning par tnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake turn to the composer Benjamin Britten for their latest Hyperion release. This disc contains Britten’s two impor tant song cycles for baritone: Tit for Tat, and the more substantial Songs and Proverbs of William Blake. The latter was written for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: designed to showcase his unique blend of intense lyricism and dramatic characterization, qualities which are undoubtedly also exhibited by Gerald Finley. GERALD FINLEY / JULIUS DRAKE

CPE BACH KEYBOARD SONATAS The pianist Danny Driver has garnered the highest possible praise for his two York Bowen albums on Hyperion. Now he turns to a composer from a very different age— yet one who has been similarly overlooked by the musical establishment, while always having a place in the hear t of connoisseurs of arcane keyboard music. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), second son of Johann Sebastian, was both revered and criticized by his contemporaries for his bold depar tures from conventional modes of musical expression. DANNY DRIVER

BRAHMS MOTETS ‘Ideal for the more adventurous listener who enjoys a ramble down the lesser-known by-ways of the musical reper toire’ (The Music Magazine) ‘A must for any serious collector’ (Organists’ Review) CORYDON SINGERS / MATTHEW BEST

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Compact Disc CDH55339 (budget price)

DOWLAND LACHRIMAE ‘Outstanding’ (Early Music) ‘The unique features, superb playing, recording and annotation make this an issue of unusual interest and irresistible attraction’ (Gramophone) ‘Excellently recorded, the disc makes for an intriguing and valuable supplement that should be heard by anyone wishing to expand their understanding of this marvellous music’ (Goldberg) THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS

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