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Welcome to Hyperion Records, a 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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Recent reviews

12 February 2026
De Standaard, Belgium
Bizet: The piano works
Studio Master: CDA68491  NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

'Prosseda is een meester-verteller, die de kunst van het doseren door en door beheerst' (De Standaard, Belgium)

10 February 2026

Bach: Goldberg Variations
Studio Master: 4871517  Download only NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Lim's sincere, searching voice and powers of communication always come across in a performance well worth hearing’ (Gramophone)
5 February 2026

Bach: Goldberg Variations
Studio Master: 4871517  Download only NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Lim's luminous tone belies his years: it's hard to credit he was all of 21 when giving this performance in New York's Carnegie Hall … the close recording gives away no hint of a live audience while complementing what is fundamentally an intimate address to the cycle: again, you could almost forget (unless actually playing it!) that here is some of Bach's most showy and extrovert keyboard writing’ (Pianist)

5 February 2026
The Guardian, Erica Jeal
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Studio Master: 4871517  Download only NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘The 21-year-old pianist gives a fine, muscular account of the Goldbergs, with touches of playfulness, in this live recording from Carnegie Hall’ (The Guardian)

5 February 2026

Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky: Russian Ballet Suites
Studio Master: CDA68471/2  RECORD OF THE MONTH 2CDs  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Dazzling accounts of Russian ballet transcriptions … boy, does he succeed … his ability to carry off a grand gesture (those breathtaking scales! those arpeggios!) shows him to be a real creature of the theatre. The Sleeping Beauty Concert Suite is as infused with dance, romance and joy as any version I've heard’ (Pianist)

3 February 2026
The Ultimate Classical Music Guide, David Hurwitz
Bach: Angela Hewitt – The Bach Recordings
CDS44621/47  27CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Temporarily out of stock NEW 

‘One of the great Bach pianists of the second half of the twentieth century—I don’t think there’s any question about that … it’s just going to kill you if you’re not careful when you take it out of its box’ (The Ultimate Classical Music Guide)
3 February 2026
The Times, Geoff Brown
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Studio Master: 4871517  Download only NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Humility and warmth marks Lim's treatmeant of the opening theme, with the 30 variations offering well over 30 different varieties of colour, texture, emotional shading and rhythmic vitality … Lim's youthful panache also serves Bach in another way, widening the sense of wonder that all great Goldberg performances need to convey’ (The Times)

3 February 2026

Howells: Sine nomine & other secular choral works
Studio Master: CDA68476  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This is a very fine disc indeed. David Hill and Ikon have shone a welcome light on an underappreciated part of Herbert Howells’ output … their singing is polished, full of vitality and the ensemble is expertly balanced. In David Hill they couldn’t have a better guide to this repertoire. In summary, the performances are ideal … if you love Howells’ music but are less familiar with his secular choral pieces you will find this CD very rewarding indeed’ (MusicWeb International)
31 January 2026
BBC Record Review, Charlotte Gardner
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Studio Master: CDA68461/2  RECORD OF THE MONTH 2CDs NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This is a chorus that has it all … David Butt Philip is an absolutely wonderful Gerontius … the classic choice’ (BBC Record Review)
31 January 2026
BBC Record Review, Charlotte Gardner
Schumann & Moscheles: 1851 - Sonatas
Studio Master: CDA68477  NEW  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘It's a fantastic sound … so beautifully done’ (BBC Record Review)
29 January 2026

Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Studio Master: CDA67077  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Surpassing every one of Rzewski's technical challenges, giving an electrifying performance, the Canadian made this recording in 1998 and it is still a benchmark … all is heard in fantastic recorded sound—you're in the room with the bright-toned instrument, marvelling at its tuning at the outer edges of the keyboard’ (BBC Music Magazine)
29 January 2026

Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky: Russian Ballet Suites
Studio Master: CDA68471/2  RECORD OF THE MONTH 2CDs  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This album of Russian ballet transcriptions sparkles like a glass bauble hanging amidst the fairy lights … Andrey Gugnin is an ideal interpreter, a performer of agility and perceptiveness … it's the sheer beauty of his playing in the gorgeous Intermezzo and Andante maestoso that makes this special … Gugnin is dazzlingly virtuosic—it must be quite a thing to hear these pieces in concert’ (BBC Music Magazine)

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