Minsoo Sohn makes his debut Hyperion recording with an impressively lyrical interpretation of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier Book 1. First Prize Laureate of the 2006 Honens International Piano Competition, Sohn has performed throughout Europe, North America and Asia, earning particular acclaim for his searching interpretations of Bach and Beethoven.

Steven Isserlis plays The Marquis de Corberon is an opulent boxed-set celebrating the 300th anniversary of the eponymous 1726 Stradivarius, cited as one of the world’s greatest cellos. Here we have 10 CDs of Isserlis’s greatest albums performed on the instrument—with music ranging from his recent Boccherini ‘Music of the Angels’ album to Concertos by CPE Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvořák right up to John Tavener, enabling listeners and enthusiasts to enjoy this incomparable instrument across a range of eras and styles.

This month sees the release of a further three albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Steven Osborne’s 2013 recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an exhibition & Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives won that year’s Gramophone Instrumental Award: ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly “Pictures” on record. Hyperion’s sound and presentation are beyond praise.’ Similarly ecstatic reviews greeted Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. Marc’s first (and thus far only) all-Chopin album united and surprised critics across the world as poetry combined with Hamelin’s superhuman virtuosity, The Sunday Times noting that ‘Hamelin, a poet among virtuosos, brings sensibility and a brilliant technique in equal measure to this oft-recorded music. Spellbinding.’ And from 1987 we have a chance to join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of the glorious Pergolesi Stabat mater. This seminal album from The King’s Consort was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed Stabat mater as to put the others completely out of the running’.

Three new releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a devastating fourth instalment in the Sturm und Drang series from The Mozartists and conductor Ian Page (soprano Alexandra Lowe’s visceral incarnation of Georg Benda’s Medea a never-to-be-forgotten highlight). Nigel Short and Tenebrae mark 25 years of a remarkable choir with The journey, new recordings of some of the finest works discovered over the intervening years and with a focus on quiet but always active reflection. And a new EP from Alexander Chapman Campbell Towards peace presents four of this composer’s piano miniatures.

A new release from Decca Classics introduces a remarkable prodigy with Himari – Debut. The audacious programme opens with Wieniawski’s rarely heard Violin Concerto No 1 which was recorded live with the Berliner Philharmoniker (incidentally making Himari the youngest violinist to debut with the orchestra since Yehudi Menuhin in 1929) before orchestra is replaced by pianist Chelsea Wang for a sequence of miniatures by Chopin, Sibelius and Godowsky. The album then returns to Wieniawski for his popular Fantasy on themes from Gounod’s Faust.

Two new releases from Signum Classics this month see a further instalment in Marios Papadopoulos’ cycle with the re-issue of Beethoven Piano Sonatas Opp 14 & 22 and Finzi: The dance continued from tenor Nick Pritchard and pianist Ian Tindale. Here we have not only the cycles Till Earth outwears, A Young Man’s Exhortation and Oh fair to see, but also five further songs which have never previously been recorded.