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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Oliver Leith’s role as the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Doctoral Composer-in-Residence at the Royal Opera House led to the creation of his acclaimed debut chamber opera Last Days. Premiered at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre in 2022 with a sold-out run of performances, it received its US premiere from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Thomas Adès in February 2024 at Walt Disney Hall. The world premiere recording, with 12 Ensemble, GBSR Duo and conductor Jack Sheen, was released by Platoon in 2024.
2024 saw the premiere of Cartoon sun and Doom and the Dooms for electric guitar, keyboard, percussion and strings for Sean Shibe, GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble. will o wisp, a 19-minute work for strings, co-commissioned by Manchester Collective and Det Norske Kammerorkester and funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants, was premiered in 2022.
Other orchestral works include Taxa (composed in 2013 and subsequently performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov) and Dream Horse for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra (commissioned by the 2018 Tanglewood Festival, conducted by Thomas Adès). In 2016–17 members of the London Symphony Orchestra premiered 664 love songs to cure heartache and Sexton Blakes, both for instrumental ensembles and video.
Balloon, for an ensemble of nine players, was premiered in 2018 by the London Sinfonietta and features on an all-Leith release from Another Timbre. Good day good day bad day bad day (2018), a 45-minute work for keyboards and percussion composed for George Barton and Siwan Rhys, is also available on Another Timbre. Other recordings include: Hand Coloured with Loré Lixenberg and the London Sinfonietta (NMC); Aisha Orazbayeva playing Blurry Wake Song (SN Variations); and Uh huh, Yeah with the Hermes Experiment (Delphian). The Ruisi Quartet featured Leith’s string quartet The big house on their eponymous album from Pentatone in 2023. Ben Goldscheider and Richard Uttley premiered Eeyore for horn and piano at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2024; it toured California as part of the Camerata Pacifica recital series in spring 2025.
