At sixteen, the prodigiously talented Clara Schumann was taken on tour by her father to separate her from Robert Schumann, whom he opposed as a prospective husband. During this enforced absence, she composed her haunting Nocturne, a work of striking depth and maturity.

'During my whole pianistic education, no teacher ever suggested I learn a piece by a female composer.' So writes pianist and author Susan Tomes, who is setting out to redress the historical neglect of women composers and women pianists.

Presenting Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien in their cycle of the complete Mozart violin sonatas. Composed between his childhood years and the full maturity of his Viennese period, these works chart the profound transformation not only in Mozart but in chamber music itself.

This recording is the culmination of a personal journey shaped by injury, reflection and rediscovery. Over twenty years ago, a serious wrist injury forced Minsoo to step away from the concert platform.

'The ultimate Vivaldi anthology, abundant in energy, rich with emotion, animation, and color, and enshrined in Hyperion's fabled, warm, and incomparable sound' (Fanfare). Presenting the re-issue of The Complete Vivaldi Sacred Music from The King's Consort: 11 CDs of pure heaven.

Shining a spotlight on the extraordinary Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, a child prodigy who performed for Louis XIV and became one of the most remarkable composers of her generation, but whose music has fallen into neglect over the intervening centuries.

'There's just no dividing line for me between all of these genres: I like them all!'—Stephen Hough

Inspired by the annotated scores of his late teacher, this recording represents Minsoo's rediscovery of Bach through his mentor's eyes, and his commitment to finding the heart of Bach's music, shaped by a remarkable journey back from a career-threatening wrist injury.

The F minor prelude BWV857 makes the most of scrunchy harmonies with its four voices—which the ensuing fugue extends in the most chromatic subject in the cycle so far.

It is odd to imagine a world without Vivaldi's 'Gloria', but it was only in 1926 that monks discovered crates of Vivaldi manuscripts containing some 300 works, over 50 of them church music. To this day, most of us can claim to know just a few, but now there is no further excuse.

Presenting the 'Complete Haydn String Quartets'. These performances combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn's own lifetime. The release celebrates the 25th anniversary of the formation of The London Haydn Quartet.

'The last verse must build up', Finzi insisted, but the work as a whole is replete with climaxes; and, in making this demand, the composer cannot be said to have made life easier for himself.

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.

'I really enjoy meringue, but I wouldn't want to live off them.'—Stephen Hough

This enchanting motet by Francisco Garro is one of the few surviving treasures from the period, with most of the music lost during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Announcing batch six in our Vinyl Edition series, due for release on 18th September. These three best-selling albums from the catalogue are new to vinyl and will be released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds with sleeve notes.

'Some of these pieces were the first classical music I heard as a boy. I came from a completely unmusical house, we had no classical records, but when I begged my parents to learn the piano, they were very good and said "yes", and then they started buying records.'—Stephen Hough

'The Mary Poppins Suite' was commissioned for the pianist Lang Lang and his 2022 album 'The Disney Book'. Deftly decorated and using every trick of the transcriber's art, the three titles are emblematic of Stephen's sophisticated and witty palette.

For his new album, out now, Stephen Hough picks favourite songs and tunes from around the world, re-imagining them for solo piano in deft new arrangements: acts of homage to the countries he has come to love over a lifetime of travelling and performing.

The dramatic impact of 'For St Cecilia' resides in forceful homophony and long-breathed secondary melodic lines.

This dark, introspective piece is underpinned by Finzi's characteristic musical warmth, and is a world-premiere recording of a new arrangement of the composer's famous work.

For over thirty years Alban Gerhardt has been performing Elgar's iconic cello concerto, but this is the first time he has committed his interpretation to record, discarding inherited conventions and returning to the detailed instructions left by the composer in the score.

Mulan is a Disney animation, a fantasy action drama based on the legend of Hua Mulan, a Chinese folk heroine. Stephen writes: 'This was another arrangement done for Lang Lang, although it didn't make it onto his album.'

The Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV1056 is the shortest of the keyboard concertos but one of the most popular, thanks to its beautiful Adagio.

Continuing his mission to bring contemporary dazzle to the most seminal of repertoire, Mahan Esfahani unleashes his turbo-charged harpsichord on 'The Complete Keyboard Concertos' of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, 'Wishing Tree' is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six incorporating Poulenc, nursery rhymes, Italian madrigal and folksong pastiche.

Trace them all—from Op 9 to Op 77—with historically informed performances on period instruments, in one 20CD box celebrating the 25th anniversary of the formation of The London Haydn Quartet. Where will you start? Pre-order the boxset 🎧 hyperion.lnk.to/cds44651-70SR

The set begins with Haydn's Opus 9 quartets—widely considered as the start of the composer's development of this new genre—and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (on this occasion by one of Scott's contemporaries, Samuel Wale).

The 10x double-CD wallets included in our Complete Haydn String Quartets box are presented with Samuel Scott's opulent maritime paintings for which the series is known.

Variation 11 is a nocturne, and continues with the denser texture of its predecessor. The movement attains a peak vitality in the final Variation, which follows tradition in capping the set with a lengthy coda.