Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
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| The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)» More |
| Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)» More |
| Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)» More |
| Tonus Peregrinus, TPII» More |
| Jesus College Choir Cambridge, Mark Williams (conductor)» More |
| Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Fretwork» More |
| The King's Singers» More |
from notes by John Milsom © 2013
 Byrd & Britten: Choral worksStudio Master: SIGCD481Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  Jesus College Choir continues its much-praised series of recordings with a new album of works by Britten and Byrd.» More |
 Byrd: The Great ServiceCDGIM011Download only  Byrd's music for the Anglican Church has been performed regularly in services for some 400 years. Perennial favourites recorded here include the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis from the Great Service and the anthems O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth ...» More |
 Byrd: The Great Service & other worksCDA67533  ‘A very polished and confident performance. Quinney gives equally fluent renditions of the Voluntary and 'Fancie for My Lady Nevell', completing a dis ... ‘The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction ...» More |
 Byrd: The Tallis Scholars sing William ByrdCDGIM2082CDs for the price of 1 — Download only "England has never produced a greater composer than William Byrd. His music for the Anglican Church has been sung without interruption since the 16th century. In stark contrast his Catholic music was not heard for over 300 years. This specially pr ...» More |
 Mary and Elizabeth at Westminster AbbeyCDA67704 This disc tells the story of the religious and political turmoil that engulfed England in the sixteenth century, and from which composers of liturgical music could find no escape. They were forced to follow the changing edicts about permitted texts a ...» More |
 Renaissance RadioCDGIM2122CDs for the price of 1 — Download only Sacred Music from the Renaissance Era for Celestial and Secular Radio. When Peter Phillips founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973 sacred vocal music from the Renaissance Era was seldom heard on radio. Now it is firmly established as one of the great ...» More |
 The Silken TentSIGCD826Download only From Byrd and Gibbons through to Nyman and Goehr, this album puts to bed the idea that the viol is a spent force, the instruments' beguiling lines sinuously interweaving with soprano voice—and taking in some arresting arrangements.» More |
 Vinum et MusicaStudio Master: 1EMVEMDownload onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  Glorious polyphony from William Byrd, Robert White, Thomas Tallis and others, performed in the kind of informal setting—and using only the original partbooks—the composers themselves might have recognized.» More |
 Weelkes & Byrd: Tom + WillStudio Master: SIGCD731Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes died in 1623, Byrd in his ninth decade, Weelkes barely half that. Eighteen works, mainly secular in nature and several relatively unknown today, are presented here, along with two inspired new compositions from Rode ...» More |
 Byrd: Playing Elizabeth's TuneGIMDN902DeletedThis album is not available for download NTSC FORMAT DVD. Filmed performances of sacred music by William Byrd together with a documentary on the troubled times that produced some of the most intimate and passionate sacred music ever written.» More |
 Byrd: Playing Elizabeth's TuneGIMDP901DeletedThis album is not available for download PAL FORMAT DVD. Filmed performances of sacred music by William Byrd together with a documentary on the troubled times that produced some of the most intimate and passionate sacred music ever written.» More |
 Byrd: Playing Elizabeth's TuneGIMSA592DeletedThis album is not available for download SACD. Peter Phillips directs The Tallis Scholars in sacred music by William Byrd, recorded while filming for the BBC in Tewkesbury Abbey.» More |