With Francisco Garro’s Missa O quam pulchra es & Missa Cantate Domino, Gramophone Award-winning vocal ensemble Cupertinos and director Luís Toscano turn to another of the composers who contributed to the rich musical legacy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portugal. Garro may be less familiar than some of his near contemporaries, but it was only early in the last century that the confusion over his name was conclusively resolved (previous sources wrongly identify a fictitious Francisco Garcia) and the booklet documents some of the detective work involved in rescuing this neglected figure from posthumous obscurity. None of which would matter if the results as recorded here did not merit such painstaking research, which they do—abundantly so.

Fading is another of the remarkable concept albums from The Gesualdo Six, an exploration of the ancient Office of Compline in a programme stretching from the twelfth century (Saint Hildegard) to the twenty-first. Radio 3’s Record Review thought the 2020 CD release ‘just incredible’. Described by The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’, Steven Isserlis’s multi-award-winning accounts of the Bach Cello Suites need little introduction. These must count among the most highly praised versions ever committed to disc, and vinyl aficionados will welcome the appearance of this three-LP set. Alina Ibragimova’s accounts of the two Shostakovich Violin Concertos, strongly supported by Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’, rank with the finest. This album won the Concerto category in the 2021 Gramophone Awards; it’s now available as a double-LP set.

This month sees the release of a further five albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Angela Hewitt is represented by the LP release of her recording of Bach Arrangements, a selection from the wealth of twentieth-century piano transcriptions of Bach’s music by Wilhelm Kempff and others, culminating with Eugen d’Albert’s magnificent transcription of the C minor Passacaglia. A critical and commercial success since its original release, and hailed by Gramophone as a ‘remarkable disc … played with a nonchalant aplomb and magical dexterity hard to imagine from any other pianist’, Marc-André Hamelin’s coruscating album of Piano Music by Nikolai Kapustin now makes its appearance on vinyl.

From the very earliest days of the label, Hyperion has recorded a veritable treasure store of choral glories from the some of the best choirs around: The Cardinall’s Musick, Westminster Cathedral and Abbey Choirs, The Orlando Consort, Gothic Voices, Cinquecento, and more. A wide selection of these albums are available at the reduced price of around £10 per CD (£8 or less for lossless downloads) until the end of March. Some highlights are listed below and are included on Volume 1 of our March sampler (free to download), and you can also » Click here for a full listing.

With Francisco Garro’s Missa O quam pulchra es & Missa Cantate Domino, Gramophone Award-winning vocal ensemble Cupertinos and director Luís Toscano turn to another of the composers who contributed to the rich musical legacy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portugal. Garro may be less familiar than some of his near contemporaries, but it was only early in the last century that the confusion over his name was conclusively resolved (previous sources wrongly identify a fictitious Francisco Garcia) and the booklet documents some of the detective work involved in rescuing this neglected figure from posthumous obscurity. None of which would matter if the results as recorded here did not merit such painstaking research, which they do—abundantly so.

Fading is another of the remarkable concept albums from The Gesualdo Six, an exploration of the ancient Office of Compline in a programme stretching from the twelfth century (Saint Hildegard) to the twenty-first. Radio 3’s Record Review thought the 2020 CD release ‘just incredible’. Described by The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’, Steven Isserlis’s multi-award-winning accounts of the Bach Cello Suites need little introduction. These must count among the most highly praised versions ever committed to disc, and vinyl aficionados will welcome the appearance of this three-LP set. Alina Ibragimova’s accounts of the two Shostakovich Violin Concertos, strongly supported by Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’, rank with the finest. This album won the Concerto category in the 2021 Gramophone Awards; it’s now available as a double-LP set.

This month sees the release of a further five albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Angela Hewitt is represented by the LP release of her recording of Bach Arrangements, a selection from the wealth of twentieth-century piano transcriptions of Bach’s music by Wilhelm Kempff and others, culminating with Eugen d’Albert’s magnificent transcription of the C minor Passacaglia. A critical and commercial success since its original release, and hailed by Gramophone as a ‘remarkable disc … played with a nonchalant aplomb and magical dexterity hard to imagine from any other pianist’, Marc-André Hamelin’s coruscating album of Piano Music by Nikolai Kapustin now makes its appearance on vinyl.

From the very earliest days of the label, Hyperion has recorded a veritable treasure store of choral glories from the some of the best choirs around: The Cardinall’s Musick, Westminster Cathedral and Abbey Choirs, The Orlando Consort, Gothic Voices, Cinquecento, and more. A wide selection of these albums are available at the reduced price of around £10 per CD (£8 or less for lossless downloads) until the end of March. Some highlights are listed below and are included on Volume 1 of our March sampler (free to download), and you can also » Click here for a full listing.

With Francisco Garro’s Missa O quam pulchra es & Missa Cantate Domino, Gramophone Award-winning vocal ensemble Cupertinos and director Luís Toscano turn to another of the composers who contributed to the rich musical legacy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portugal. Garro may be less familiar than some of his near contemporaries, but it was only early in the last century that the confusion over his name was conclusively resolved (previous sources wrongly identify a fictitious Francisco Garcia) and the booklet documents some of the detective work involved in rescuing this neglected figure from posthumous obscurity. None of which would matter if the results as recorded here did not merit such painstaking research, which they do—abundantly so.

Fading is another of the remarkable concept albums from The Gesualdo Six, an exploration of the ancient Office of Compline in a programme stretching from the twelfth century (Saint Hildegard) to the twenty-first. Radio 3’s Record Review thought the 2020 CD release ‘just incredible’. Described by The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’, Steven Isserlis’s multi-award-winning accounts of the Bach Cello Suites need little introduction. These must count among the most highly praised versions ever committed to disc, and vinyl aficionados will welcome the appearance of this three-LP set. Alina Ibragimova’s accounts of the two Shostakovich Violin Concertos, strongly supported by Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’, rank with the finest. This album won the Concerto category in the 2021 Gramophone Awards; it’s now available as a double-LP set.

This month sees the release of a further five albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Angela Hewitt is represented by the LP release of her recording of Bach Arrangements, a selection from the wealth of twentieth-century piano transcriptions of Bach’s music by Wilhelm Kempff and others, culminating with Eugen d’Albert’s magnificent transcription of the C minor Passacaglia. A critical and commercial success since its original release, and hailed by Gramophone as a ‘remarkable disc … played with a nonchalant aplomb and magical dexterity hard to imagine from any other pianist’, Marc-André Hamelin’s coruscating album of Piano Music by Nikolai Kapustin now makes its appearance on vinyl.

From the very earliest days of the label, Hyperion has recorded a veritable treasure store of choral glories from the some of the best choirs around: The Cardinall’s Musick, Westminster Cathedral and Abbey Choirs, The Orlando Consort, Gothic Voices, Cinquecento, and more. A wide selection of these albums are available at the reduced price of around £10 per CD (£8 or less for lossless downloads) until the end of March. Some highlights are listed below and are included on Volume 1 of our March sampler (free to download), and you can also » Click here for a full listing.