CD, Hummel, J (composer)
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Special offer. The Beethoven Connection
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Sonatas by Clementi, Dussek, Hummel & Wölfl
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
This recording embodies a brilliant idea, brilliantly carried out…Each of the works that Bavouzet has programmed is a revelation, and reflects the fundamental changes that were taking place... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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Baroque Album
Vivaldi - Bach - Barbella - Paisiello - Hummel
Avi Avital (mandolin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Avital’s seemingly effortless virtuosity and quasi-improvisatory flights in this audibly genial collaboration will send you on your way rejoicing. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Concerto Recording of the Year
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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ), The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Donohoe slips seamlessly into an ensemble that brings together longstanding friendships and shared performance history. His own quietly stated musical authority and flair is formidable and augmented... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Stephen Hough's splendid issue is in its way as revelatory as his Gramophone Award-winning recordings of the piano concertos. He revels in the element of display which Hummel, one of the leading... —
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Special offer. Hummel - Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
The finest of Hummel's Piano Concertos, dynamically projected by the young Stephen Hough. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Early Romantic Piano Quartets
Hummel - Ries - Schubert
Van Swieten Society, Bart van Oort (fortepiano), Elisabeth Smalt (viola), Heleen Hulst (violin), Mátyás Virág (cello)
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In her vivacious new recording with the warmtoned Orchestra of the Mozarteum Salzburg, which she also directs, she wields a full-toned modern bassoon with brilliance and sensitivity, though... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Ignaz Friedman: Complete Recordings 1923-41
Ignaz Friedman (piano), Bronisław Huberman, Philippe Gaubert
Friedman’s finest performances are intimate and mellow revealing a passion for lyric line, inner voicing, phrasing and cadence… every page was a door to an infinity of feelings and beyonds. —
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Special offer. Hummel - Masses Volume 1
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
When the glories of Haydn's late Masses have been widely appreciated, it's sad that Hummel's have been so neglected.
They are for chorus and orchestra alone, without soloists, which may have... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Choral
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