Hyperion's Recording of the Month for August is a second double-bill of Haydn Piano Sonatas from Marc-André Hamelin: masterpieces of perfected composer and performer artistry combined. Multi-Gramophone-Award-nominated Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble have made a recording of a Mass, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets by Dominique Phinot, the first ever dedicated to the Renaissance master's sacred music, and Eugene Asti and a host of superlative young singers present a fourth volume of Mendelssohn Songs, the majority of them unheard, let alone recorded, for 150 years.

From the Hyperion vaults, we are delighted to re-issue Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, and Clifford Benson's traversal of Finzi Song Cycles, an electrifying recital of Medtner & Rachmaninov Music for two pianos from Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko, Bach Violin Concertos from The King's Consort, and an exhilarating sequence of Music for the life and death of the Spanish King Philip II recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir under James O'Donnell.