Andrew Carwood heads up Hyperion's February 2009 release with the latest instalment in the award-winning Cardinall's Musick Byrd Edition. The indefatigable Howard Shelley leads the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in hugely spirited performances of the twelve Haydn London Symphonies, Ilya Gringolts and Ilan Volkov test their mettle (and that of the BBC Scottish) in pyrotechnical Romantic Violin Concertos, and Thierry Fischer leads the BBC NOW deep inside the treacherous intrigue of Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein, a mammoth tone poem of seventeenth-century enormity. Meanwhile the inaugural release in a new series of Haydn Piano Trios provides a quantum of chamber-music solace, shattered by Messrs Maltman, Miles and Vignoles in a fourth volume of Richard Strauss Songs which finds the composer in unusually serious vein. From the archives we are pleased to reissue the magisterial Demidenko plays Medtner.