Following the success of the first 10 albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition (released in September 2024 and March 2025), six further LPs are announced today. All the albums are new to vinyl and feature globally touring artists with whom the label has enjoyed close, long-standing associations. Each of the six titles will be released as limited-edition 180gsm LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and including sleeve notes.
For his 2011 recording of the Grieg & Liszt Piano Concertos, Sir Stephen Hough travelled to Grieg’s hometown of Bergen to join forces with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Upon its original release, The Sunday Times named Hough’s album ‘one of the Liszt bicentenary's prime releases, from Britain's greatest living magician of the keyboard’.
Named by The Economist as one of twenty living polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines the distinguished career of a concert pianist with those of a composer and writer. In recognition of his contribution to cultural life, he became the first classical performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship, and was awarded a knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2022.
Tracklisting:
Side A
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S. 124
1. I. Allegro maestoso. Tempo giusto
2. II. Quasi adagio
3. III. Allegretto vivace – Allegro animato
4. IV. Allegro marziale animato
Side B
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
1. I. Allegro molto moderato
2. II. Adagio
3. III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato