Celebrating its 30th release on Hyperion, The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge dedicates its latest project to the Requiem da camera, For St Cecilia & In terra pax by Gerald Finzi. This is music which tackles both the transience of mortal life and also human happiness: the introspective Requiem, the outwardly festive For St Cecilia and the touching ‘Christmas Scene’ In terra pax each revealing Finzi’s unique compositional voice. The soloists are Hilary Cronin, Gwilym Bowen and Florian Störtz and Steven Grahl makes his debut as Trinity’s new Director of Music.

Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards is the latest fruit born of Sir Stephen Hough’s lifelong passion for ‘those encores which showcase the great pianists of the Golden Age … the miniature masterpieces which say much in a few notes’. Here we have everything from Sibelius, Schumann and Sinding through to the Mary Poppins encore with which Stephen delighted his 2025 Proms audience. It’s our Record of the Month for July and—for the full Golden Age experience—it’s also available on 180g vinyl.

Voted by Gramophone as one of the top five choirs in the world, The Choir Trinity College Cambridge has just released a first album under new Director of Music Steven Grahl: Requiem da camera, For St Cecilia & In terra pax by Gerald Finzi. To mark the occasion, we’re pleased to make the choir’s wide-ranging back catalogue available at the reduced price of around £11 per CD (£8 or less for lossless downloads) until the end of August. Some highlights are listed below and are included on Vol. 2 of our July sampler (free to download), and you can also » Click here for a full listing.

The Hertfordshire Chorus and conductor David Temple have recorded Parry: De profundis & Elgar: From the Bavarian highlands for Signum, orchestral accompaniment in the Parry coming from the London Mozart Players. Two first recordings, and a celebration of the opulence of British choral music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Song records curated by Joseph Middleton on Signum Classics are always a treat, and with Mahler’s Lieder der Jugend we are richly rewarded as soprano Katharina Konradi, mezzo Sophie Rennert, tenor Mauro Peter and the rich baritone of Sir Simon Keenlyside revel in the ingenuity of some of this composer’s most iconic songs.

Performing on a 1750 violin by Guadagnini and an 1805 Viennese fortepiano replica, Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson continue their refreshing series on Signum with Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 7.

A second instalment in Marios Papadopoulos’s re-issue cycle on Signum Classics brings us Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op 2: three sonatas published in 1796, and Beethoven’s first official foray into the genre he was to make his own.