Hyperion Records
@hyperionrecords.bsky.social
British classical label presenting recordings of music of all styles from the 12th to the 21st century. Est. 1980.
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We're delighted to send a Happy Birthday to … us, in our 45th year! 1st October 2025 marks 45 years to the day since an advertisement appeared in Gramophone magazine.
It was the Huddersfield Choral Society which made the first complete recording of 'Gerontius' on 8-12 April 1945; this latest chapter in the Society's ties to the work was recorded 80 years later, virtually to the day, on 5 April 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It was the Huddersfield Choral Society which made the first complete recording of 'Gerontius' on 8-12 April 1945; this latest chapter in the Society's ties to the work was recorded 80 years later, virtually to the day, on 5 April 2025.
For your diaries; @mahanesfahani.bsky.social visits the Southbank Centre to bring to life a programme of music by some of the English Renaissance's greatest composers, on 3rd December 🎟️ www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mah...
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For your diaries; @mahanesfahani.bsky.social visits the Southbank Centre to bring to life a programme of music by some of the English Renaissance's greatest composers, on 3rd December 🎟️ www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mah...
A rollercoaster ride through works by some of the twentieth century's great musical mavericks, including John Oswald's 'Tip'. But how many of the forty-odd musical references can you name?
Watch the interview 🎞️ youtu.be/Z1htOg5h7Zc?...
Watch the interview 🎞️ youtu.be/Z1htOg5h7Zc?...
Marc-André Hamelin - Found Objects / Sound Objects - Track Commentaries
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November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A rollercoaster ride through works by some of the twentieth century's great musical mavericks, including John Oswald's 'Tip'. But how many of the forty-odd musical references can you name?
Watch the interview 🎞️ youtu.be/Z1htOg5h7Zc?...
Watch the interview 🎞️ youtu.be/Z1htOg5h7Zc?...
For his Hyperion debut, pianist Luís Duarte has chosen a selection of works by one of the major figures in twentieth-century Portuguese music—Fernando Lopes-Graça—exploring a wide range of styles, moods and influences.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For his Hyperion debut, pianist Luís Duarte has chosen a selection of works by one of the major figures in twentieth-century Portuguese music—Fernando Lopes-Graça—exploring a wide range of styles, moods and influences.
The stirring finale to the first half of Elgar's choral masterpiece 'The Dream of Gerontius' marks the culminating moment in which the priest releases the soul from this world and sets it on its journey to the next.
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The stirring finale to the first half of Elgar's choral masterpiece 'The Dream of Gerontius' marks the culminating moment in which the priest releases the soul from this world and sets it on its journey to the next.
Composed on vacation in 1924, Bloch's 'From Jewish Life' for cello and piano explores the entire range of the solo instrument. This performance of outstanding composure and poise from Natalie Klein and Yeol Eum Son at Wigmore Hall is utterly spellbinding 🪄
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Composed on vacation in 1924, Bloch's 'From Jewish Life' for cello and piano explores the entire range of the solo instrument. This performance of outstanding composure and poise from Natalie Klein and Yeol Eum Son at Wigmore Hall is utterly spellbinding 🪄
Big shout out to this month's Gramophone Magazine cover star, Marc-André Hamelin, on the thrill of adventure and discovery, not for the faint of heart! 🎹
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Big shout out to this month's Gramophone Magazine cover star, Marc-André Hamelin, on the thrill of adventure and discovery, not for the faint of heart! 🎹
In 1865, Georges Bizet wrote six piano pieces under the title 'Chants du Rhin' for the publisher Heugel. The music grows in sophistication with each piece, starting with 'L'aurore', the dawn, described with effortless simplicity as a long, pure melody.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In 1865, Georges Bizet wrote six piano pieces under the title 'Chants du Rhin' for the publisher Heugel. The music grows in sophistication with each piece, starting with 'L'aurore', the dawn, described with effortless simplicity as a long, pure melody.
Published in 1915, the rousing 'O thou, the central orb' sets words by the Oxford clergyman and hymnologist Henry Ramsden Bramley, who wrote his Petrarchian sonnet so it could be used as a new text for Orlando Gibbons's 1619 anthem 'O all true faithful hearts'.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Published in 1915, the rousing 'O thou, the central orb' sets words by the Oxford clergyman and hymnologist Henry Ramsden Bramley, who wrote his Petrarchian sonnet so it could be used as a new text for Orlando Gibbons's 1619 anthem 'O all true faithful hearts'.
'In two words, it's bad.' The grumbling note which accompanied 'Rêverie' made clear the composer's feelings, but the piece was published anyway. Debussy needn't have worried though: the work's opening notes set the scene for a dreamlike musical world 💭
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'In two words, it's bad.' The grumbling note which accompanied 'Rêverie' made clear the composer's feelings, but the piece was published anyway. Debussy needn't have worried though: the work's opening notes set the scene for a dreamlike musical world 💭
This ballade 'in a Bohemian style' for cello and piano harks back to the composer's Jewish roots, although at the time of composition Moscheles was a musical court favourite of Queen Victoria in London. With its high-spirited alternation of mood and speeds it can be seen as a cheerful 'dumka'.
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This ballade 'in a Bohemian style' for cello and piano harks back to the composer's Jewish roots, although at the time of composition Moscheles was a musical court favourite of Queen Victoria in London. With its high-spirited alternation of mood and speeds it can be seen as a cheerful 'dumka'.
"We have been blessed to have in our midst for many decades the fascinatingly lyrical voice of Yehudi Wyner, now in his mid-nineties."
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"We have been blessed to have in our midst for many decades the fascinatingly lyrical voice of Yehudi Wyner, now in his mid-nineties."
The latest solo album from Marc-André Hamelin promises a rollercoaster ride through works by some of the twentieth century's great musical mavericks, including Hamelin's own fast and furious 'Hexensabbat'. Not for the faint-hearted …
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The latest solo album from Marc-André Hamelin promises a rollercoaster ride through works by some of the twentieth century's great musical mavericks, including Hamelin's own fast and furious 'Hexensabbat'. Not for the faint-hearted …
Over a hushed chorale for full choir, rich in added notes, curlicues of melody from two solo sopranos drift across the soundscape. The effect is quietly ecstatic, as the inimitable Trinity College Choir perform 'O salutaris hostia', by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds back in 2015 ✨
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Over a hushed chorale for full choir, rich in added notes, curlicues of melody from two solo sopranos drift across the soundscape. The effect is quietly ecstatic, as the inimitable Trinity College Choir perform 'O salutaris hostia', by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds back in 2015 ✨
"A very simple string of expanding intervals, as well as eleven other series derived from it, is all Stefan Wolpe needed to build the monolithic edifice that is his 'Passacaglia'."
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"A very simple string of expanding intervals, as well as eleven other series derived from it, is all Stefan Wolpe needed to build the monolithic edifice that is his 'Passacaglia'."
"'The perilous night' is Cage's first important work for prepared piano. It was written in a time of great personal turmoil, and it expresses the despair he felt before separating from his wife Xenia, whom he had married in 1935."
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"'The perilous night' is Cage's first important work for prepared piano. It was written in a time of great personal turmoil, and it expresses the despair he felt before separating from his wife Xenia, whom he had married in 1935."
Someone get that man a drink! 🥃 A fantastical passage of sheer sonority brings Scriabin's vibrating Piano Sonata No 5 to its unorthodox close, performed unmistakably, of course, by Marc-André Hamelin.
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Someone get that man a drink! 🥃 A fantastical passage of sheer sonority brings Scriabin's vibrating Piano Sonata No 5 to its unorthodox close, performed unmistakably, of course, by Marc-André Hamelin.
Benefiting from 'stunningly precise fingerwork' (BBC Record Review), the virtuoso piano transcriptions on Andrey Gugnin's new album of Russian ballet suites take the listener on a thrilling ride through four nineteenth- and twentieth-century favourite ballet scores.
October 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Benefiting from 'stunningly precise fingerwork' (BBC Record Review), the virtuoso piano transcriptions on Andrey Gugnin's new album of Russian ballet suites take the listener on a thrilling ride through four nineteenth- and twentieth-century favourite ballet scores.
"'Stuck on Stella' dates from 1979 and, in the composer's own words, it was written mostly to please. Martirano recalls being influenced by Carl Maria von Weber's 'Konzertstück' for piano and orchestra as well as by a passage from Dante's 'Divine Comedy'."
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"'Stuck on Stella' dates from 1979 and, in the composer's own words, it was written mostly to please. Martirano recalls being influenced by Carl Maria von Weber's 'Konzertstück' for piano and orchestra as well as by a passage from Dante's 'Divine Comedy'."
'Expectans expectavi' is the high-water mark of Wood's Romantic church music. Its intense, yearning diatonic language, epitomized by the opening wistful lyricism of the organ, the rich dominant-thirteenth harmony and the plaintive opening for the choir, is deeply memorable.
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
'Expectans expectavi' is the high-water mark of Wood's Romantic church music. Its intense, yearning diatonic language, epitomized by the opening wistful lyricism of the organ, the rich dominant-thirteenth harmony and the plaintive opening for the choir, is deeply memorable.
The first single from Luís Duarte's album dedicated to Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça: a beguiling but somewhat sorrowful 'Romance of Santa Iria of Mação', one of 11 'Glosses' on traditional Portuguese songs.
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The first single from Luís Duarte's album dedicated to Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça: a beguiling but somewhat sorrowful 'Romance of Santa Iria of Mação', one of 11 'Glosses' on traditional Portuguese songs.
Dvořák conjures theme after theme of ravishing beauty in the finale of his beloved Cello Concerto in B minor, here performed with an expressive panache characteristic of Steven Isserlis, alongside the Berliner Philharmoniker and Alan Gilbert 🎻
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dvořák conjures theme after theme of ravishing beauty in the finale of his beloved Cello Concerto in B minor, here performed with an expressive panache characteristic of Steven Isserlis, alongside the Berliner Philharmoniker and Alan Gilbert 🎻
"My own piece is called 'Hexensabbat', which roughly translates as 'witches sabbath'. It ended up being probably the most violent piece I've ever written, especially the ending. We just finished recording it a couple of hours ago, and, it was FUN!"—Marc-André Hamelin
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"My own piece is called 'Hexensabbat', which roughly translates as 'witches sabbath'. It ended up being probably the most violent piece I've ever written, especially the ending. We just finished recording it a couple of hours ago, and, it was FUN!"—Marc-André Hamelin
"The less said about my own 'Hexensabbat' the better. (While practising it, I sometimes wished I could avail myself of some potion from a bubbling cauldron to help me play it better!) And for the very ending, the horror of it, I make no apologies."—Marc-André Hamelin
October 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"The less said about my own 'Hexensabbat' the better. (While practising it, I sometimes wished I could avail myself of some potion from a bubbling cauldron to help me play it better!) And for the very ending, the horror of it, I make no apologies."—Marc-André Hamelin
Like a magician with a piano, Stephen Hough is spellbinding in this wonderful excerpt from Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, back in 1993 🪄
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Like a magician with a piano, Stephen Hough is spellbinding in this wonderful excerpt from Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, back in 1993 🪄