Since you are interested in Piano Septets, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
HAYDN / HUMMEL / TORELLI / NERUDA
Trumpet Concertos Alison Balsom (trumpet / director) / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [ Warner Classics / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] "Trumpeter Alison Balsom's bold and brilliant playing engenders a fresh-eared listening of the warhorse Haydn and Hummel concertos." (10 sound 10 performance ClassicsToday) |
JOHN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Missa Solemnis / Te Deum David Griffiths (bass) Zan McKendree-Wright (alto) Patrick Power (tenor) Patricia Wright (sop) / TOWER Voices New Zealand / NZ Symphony / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine May 2004 - "This choir has a remarkable level of control, vocal development and musicality. The fact that they are all trained voices means that an effortless power is available to them, with a wide and dramatic... |
PACINI / BELLINI / MENDELSSOHN / HUMMEL / ROSSI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Maria Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Maxim Vengerov (violin) / Orchestra La Scintilla / International Chamber Soloists / Adam Fischer [ Decca / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Recital - "Diva Bartoli is on brilliant form in this recording and Adam Fischer provides loving and sensitive handling of the orchestra, which plays superbly." (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Concerto for Piano and Violin, Op. 17 / Violin Concerto Alexander Trostianski (violin) / Polina Osetinskaya (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Gregory Rose (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] "Naxos is to be commended for bringing these two works to our attention, especially since the performances are very polished...the recording is beautifully natural." (American Record Guide) |
HUMMEL
Mandolin Concerto, Trumpet Concerto, Ballet Music 'Das ZauberglAckchen' Alison Stephens (mandolin) Urban Agnes (trumpet), London Mozart Players, Shelley [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jun/2001 ] the first recording of the newly discovered Mandolin Concerto. |
MUSIC FOR MANDOLIN
Music of Mandolin Alison Stephens, Sue Mossop (mandolins) with Poppy Holden (soprano) & Richard Burnett (fortepiano) [ Saydisc / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Excellent and musical players .... a pleasing introduction to the mandolin" The Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 5 Geister (with Hummel-Piano Trio No 4) Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Daniel Sepec (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "Anyone who has heard and admired Andreas Staier's bracing performances of 18th- and early-19th-century solo piano works, on a variety of historically appropriate keyboards, will be at home with this highly charged chamber-music playing." (The Guardian) |
HUMMEL / BEETHOVEN / WEBER / WAGNER
Great Pianists-Benno Moiseiwitsch Vol 2 Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] A selection of 'encores' from this great pianist |
HUMMEL
Hummel: Septets Capricorn [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'As so often with Hyperion, the engineering is quite simply beyond reproach. A wonderful disc!' - CDReview |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Oberons Zauberhorn / Variations on Das Fest der Handwerker / Le retour de Londres Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / Gavle Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] "(A) lovely disc of Hummel rarities. Christopher Hinterhuber is terrific in these works, and seems to be fast becoming a Naxos favourite. That label also works its old and much--appreciated trick of unearthing a really excellent but little-hyped band... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Grande Serenade / Potpourri / Grand Serenade Consortium Classicum [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL was born in Bratislava in 1778 and died in Weimar in 1837. A child prodigy and pupil of Mozart for two years, he became one of the most brilliant virtuoso pianist-composers of the following generation. |
VIVALDI / TURINA / HUMMEL ETC
Captain Corelli's Mandolin & the Latin Trilogy: the novels of Louis de BerniAres Craig Ogden, guitar, Alison Stephens, mandolin [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] Music to compliment the novels of Louis de Bernières |
DOPPLER / HUMMEL / HAYDN / de BORNE / von WEBER / etc
Flute Fantasies and Flute Trios Eckart Haupt (flute), Janos Balint (flute) & Gotz Teutsch (cello) / Budapest Strings [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] The flute fantasies include Fernand de Borne's Carmen Fantasy and Albert Fanz Doppler and Karl Doppler's Fantasie et variations sur des motifs de l'opera Rigoletto. The trios are by Haydn, Hummel, Gyrowetz and Weber. This is a new package available... |