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Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate!
Carolyn Sampson

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s record of the month for February presents a Mozartian showcase for the extraordinary talents of Carolyn Sampson, and is also something of a rarity, the repertoire all dating the composer’s time in Salzburg. Tw... More »

The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 1 – Saint-Saëns
Philippe Graffin

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion )

These sparkling performances of Saint-Saëns' violin concertos are a fitting start to Hyperion's new series of Romantic Violin Concertos; a follow on from the highly successful Romantic Piano Concerto series.

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Mr Abel's Fine Airs: Sonatas for viola da gamba
Susanne Heinrich

$34.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787) was a contemporary of J C Bach, and a fashionable performer and promoter in London in the eighteenth century. By that time the viola da gamba was a rarity, but Abel’s performances sparked ... More »

Tippett: Piano Concerto
Stephen Osborne

$64.95$29.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

The musical and intellectual exuberance of Tippett’s music is fully demonstrated in his piano works, recorded here in their entirety on a double CD. The sonatas and concertante works recorded here offer a more compact su... More »


Dvorák: Piano Quartets
Domus

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

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Poulenc: Gloria and Motets
Stephen Layton and Polyphony

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Stephen Layton and Polyphony continue to blaze a trail as great interpreters and dazzling performers of a wide range of choral music. Their recent disc of Bruckner’s Mass in E minor and motets was acclaimed as a benchmar... More »


Walton and Rubbra Viola Concertos
Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

‘Power is a latter-day Orpheus, an expression of music’s power to disarm, encourage, soothe and serenade’ (Financial Times)

This recent appraisal of Lawrence Power affirms his status as one of the foremost violists... More »

Gombert: Tribulatio et angustia
The Brabant Ensemble

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

This is The Brabant Ensemble’s third disc for Hyperion. Under their director, eminent musicologist Dr Stephen Rice, they continue to excavate jewels of the sixteenth-century choral repertoire which have until now remaine... More »


Monte: Missa Ultimi miei sospiri
Cinquecento

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

In their third disc for Hyperion, the acclaimed vocal ensemble Cinquecento continue their exploration of the rich repertoire engendered in the Habsburg court. The prolific composer De Monte, Kapellmeister to the Emperor ... More »

Alkan: Concerto For Solo Piano
Marc-André Hamelin

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Alkan was one of the greatest composer-pianists in history, with a voice as original as Chopin or Liszt, and a technique that even Liszt admitted was the greatest he had ever known. His music is of surpassing difficulty,... More »


Barber: Songs
Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

The wonderful Gerald Finley, described recently as ‘the best living baritone currently at the peak of his powers’ (The Globe and Mail), brings his ‘glorious sound and great dramatic instinct’ to this fascinating selectio... More »

Romanzo di Central Park: Charlies Ives
Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

$32.95$9.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

In a second disc of Ives’s songs, the unbeatable partnership of Finley and Drake again enthral their listeners and bring them to the emotional core of each work.

The range of style and approach in Ives’s text-setting i... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Steven Isserlis

$64.95$59.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s record of the month for May is a major milestone for a performer at the zenith of his career—described recently in The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’. Steven Isserlis’s award-winning discography spans hi... More »

Boccherini: Cello Quintets, Vol. 1
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello)

$32.95$9.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Before Boccherini settled into the life of a composer he was a virtuoso cellist, and it was during his employment in the court of King Carlos III that he started writing cello quintets for himself to perform with the qua... More »


Boccherini Cello Quintets Vol 2
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello)

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Being the sort of chap who doesn’t like a lot of frou-frou, a string quintet generally strikes the fear of God into me. There is never any excuse for two violas. Ever. Luigi Boccherini has no truck with such frippery eit... More »

Brahms: The Piano Quartets
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leopold String Trio

$64.95$38.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion is proud to present as its Record of the Month for November electrifying new performances of the three Brahms Piano Quartets: the celebrated Leopold String Trio is joined by Marc-Andé Hamelin.

The G minor quart... More »


Chopin: Nocturnes
Lívia Rév (piano)

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Duruflé/Fauré: Requiems
Corydon Singers

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

This CD brings together previously issued recordings from separate discs of two of the best-loved settings of the Requiem. The Requiem Mass is the solemn liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church sung to honour the departed a... More »


Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Hamelin Marc Andre

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s Record of the Month for March—a generous two-for-the-price-of-one set—pits enthusiastic composer and master pianist Marc-André Hamelin against enthusiastic pianist and master composer Franz Joseph Haydn.... More »

Hildegard: A Feather on the Breath of God
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Gothic Voices

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion )

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words
Lívia Rév (piano)

$34.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

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Monteverdi: Vespers
The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

$64.95$59.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s record of the month for May brings us the monumental Monteverdi Vespers—a perennial bastion of the choral repertory, and the fifth release in The King’s Consort’s acclaimed series: ‘The definitive representati... More »


Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet
Dame Thea King (basset clarinet), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Philips Classics )

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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion )

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Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet
Leopold String Trio

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s record of the month for March presents Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, one of the most popular chamber music pieces of all time. The young Schubert, inspired by the surroundings of a summer trip in the ... More »

Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets
St Petersburg String Quartet

$92.95$55.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

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Stravinsky: Mass & Symphony of Psalms
Westminster Cathedral Choir, City of London Sinfonia, James O'Donnell (conductor)

$32.95$19.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

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Tallis: Spem in alium
Winchester Cathedral Choir

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion )

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Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos
Paul O'Dette (lute), The Parley of Instruments

$33.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

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British Light Music Classics
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

$47.95$28.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

77 tracks of golden nostalgia on 4 compact discs

including the music made famous as the signature tunes to Music While You Work, The Secret Garden, Dick Barton—Special Agent, Children’s Favourites, Jennings at School, th... More »


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