When she was only seven, the teenage Joseph Haydn came to live in Marianne Martínez's building in Vienna after being expelled from the church choir for naughty pranks. In lieu of paying rent, Haydn gave her keyboard lessons.

'My teachers saw something in me and they kept telling me, Minsoo, you must play Bach.'—Minsoo Sohn

The Minsoo Sohn interview, coming tomorrow 👀

Minsoo Sohn makes his debut Hyperion recording with an impressively lyrical interpretation of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier Book 1, recorded as a personal tribute to Minsoo's teacher, Russell Sherman, who considered the work one of the highest expressions of the human spirit.

With this much-anticipated recording we welcome Minsoo Sohn to the Hyperion roster for the first in a series of recordings of pillars of the piano repertoire. His Bach is the culmination of a personal and artistic journey reaching back decades to his studies with Russell Sherman.

We should probably shout more but we try to let the calibre of the work speak for itself. Thank you to everyone who listens and shares in Ted's enduring vision.

Still based in London, we've quietly built a catalogue of 2,300 albums spanning nearly 1,000 years of composition, including a few insane ideas like Liszt's complete piano works, the complete Schubert songs, and unearthing over 200 obscure Romantic piano concertos.

Happy 46th birthday to … us! Our musically curious founder Ted Perry famously drove taxis at night to support his label in its early days.

Rameau introduces an imitation of nature in 'Le rappel des oiseaux' (roughly translated as 'The conference of the birds'). This piece was most likely inspired by Rameau's friendship with the Jesuit Père Castel, who discussed with the composer the phenomenon and study of birdsong.

'I can hear a piece of music that I find beautiful and touching for the first time and feel nostalgia, not for my own childhood, but for the childhood of the world, for that sense of roots which I think is in all human culture.'—Stephen Hough

Past and present elide in Jan Sandström's memorable arrangement of 'Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen', the first single from The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and director Steven Grahl's thoughtful yet enchanting album of 20th- and 21st-century Christmas carols.

On stage at Birmingham's Elgar Concert Hall It was great to get the gang back together for our “Radiant Dawn” programme! Since releasing our collaborative album with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd last year, we've loved taking it on tour 🎺