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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Lopes-Graça wrote the works included on this new recording by Luís Duarte in the 1950s when he worked extensively on traditional music. As the name shows, the 'Glosas' are music over music.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Lopes-Graça wrote the works included on this new recording by Luís Duarte in the 1950s when he worked extensively on traditional music. As the name shows, the 'Glosas' are music over music.
This traditional English Christmas carol needs no introduction, and there are few choirs around today who can sprinkle it with the unbridled tinsel-bedecked excellence that Trinity Cambridge can. Stephen Layton and his expert singers capture the joyful spirit in buckets 🎄
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This traditional English Christmas carol needs no introduction, and there are few choirs around today who can sprinkle it with the unbridled tinsel-bedecked excellence that Trinity Cambridge can. Stephen Layton and his expert singers capture the joyful spirit in buckets 🎄
Enormous congratulations to Marc-André Hamlin for making @npr.org’s Top 25 Songs of the Year list with his recording of John Oswald's fascinating multiplicity of quotes from the classical, jazz and pop canons, 'Tip' 👏👏👏
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Enormous congratulations to Marc-André Hamlin for making @npr.org’s Top 25 Songs of the Year list with his recording of John Oswald's fascinating multiplicity of quotes from the classical, jazz and pop canons, 'Tip' 👏👏👏
Robert Schumann's 'Sängers Trost' ('The poet's comfort') is the first of a set of five lieder, Op 127, here arranged by Steven Isserlis for cello and piano.
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Robert Schumann's 'Sängers Trost' ('The poet's comfort') is the first of a set of five lieder, Op 127, here arranged by Steven Isserlis for cello and piano.
Gently lyrical and puckishly humorous, Beethoven's Piano Sonata in G major, Op 14 No 2, is the antithesis of the tumultuous 'Pathétique'. Here, in the bucolic scherzo-cum-finale, the main theme cavorts impishly across the bar lines as Pavel Kolesnikov weaves his magic 🪄
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Gently lyrical and puckishly humorous, Beethoven's Piano Sonata in G major, Op 14 No 2, is the antithesis of the tumultuous 'Pathétique'. Here, in the bucolic scherzo-cum-finale, the main theme cavorts impishly across the bar lines as Pavel Kolesnikov weaves his magic 🪄
It would have been all too easy for the Choir of Westminster Abbey to release yet another compilation of well-known favourites, but the carol collection recorded here is rather more varied. It's certainly too good to limit it to Christmas! Not that there's any lack of seasonal fare.
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It would have been all too easy for the Choir of Westminster Abbey to release yet another compilation of well-known favourites, but the carol collection recorded here is rather more varied. It's certainly too good to limit it to Christmas! Not that there's any lack of seasonal fare.
The idiosyncratic spelling of the album title—'caroll', not 'carol'—is deliberate, taken from the 17th-century poem by Robert Herrick as set by Kenneth Leighton in 1953.
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The idiosyncratic spelling of the album title—'caroll', not 'carol'—is deliberate, taken from the 17th-century poem by Robert Herrick as set by Kenneth Leighton in 1953.
Composer, pianist, conductor, lecturer, ethnomusicologist, political campaigner … over a long and productive life Fernando Lopes-Graça pursued a wide range of activities, by no means all necessarily associated with the esoteric world of mid-twentieth-century European modernism.
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Composer, pianist, conductor, lecturer, ethnomusicologist, political campaigner … over a long and productive life Fernando Lopes-Graça pursued a wide range of activities, by no means all necessarily associated with the esoteric world of mid-twentieth-century European modernism.
Czerny once described Beethoven's 'Appassionata' as 'the most perfect execution of a mighty and colossal plan', and it remained the composer's own favourite piano sonata until his Op 106. Andrey Gugnin's exquisite touch brings to life this performance from 2015 🥀
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Czerny once described Beethoven's 'Appassionata' as 'the most perfect execution of a mighty and colossal plan', and it remained the composer's own favourite piano sonata until his Op 106. Andrey Gugnin's exquisite touch brings to life this performance from 2015 🥀
The shadowy scherzo of Britten's Cello Symphony is a technical tour de force which, in spite of its rigorously intellectual construction, has an unparalleled eeriness and intensity. Alban Gerhardt's performance in this clip is from 2013, with the RTVE Madrid and Carlos Kalmar 🎻
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The shadowy scherzo of Britten's Cello Symphony is a technical tour de force which, in spite of its rigorously intellectual construction, has an unparalleled eeriness and intensity. Alban Gerhardt's performance in this clip is from 2013, with the RTVE Madrid and Carlos Kalmar 🎻
It coincides fortuitously with the release of a new film from Alan Bennett called 'The Choral', which highlights a fictional Yorkshire choir determined to keep music alive while its men are called to the front, in a story bearing remarkable similarities to the HCS's own story.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It coincides fortuitously with the release of a new film from Alan Bennett called 'The Choral', which highlights a fictional Yorkshire choir determined to keep music alive while its men are called to the front, in a story bearing remarkable similarities to the HCS's own story.
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...
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'."