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.

‘Utterly outstanding’, ‘a ferocious new talent’ and ‘electrifying’ were just a few of the superlatives lavished upon Andrey Gugnin’s Hyperion debut album of Shostakovich’s Preludes & Piano Sonata upon its 2019 release. Gugnin was the winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, ‘of whose piano-playing it’s all but impossible to get enough’ (Gramophone).

Moscow-born concert pianist Andrey Gugnin is rapidly gaining international acclaim as a passionately virtuosic performer, who possesses an ‘extraordinarily versatile and agile technique, which serves an often inspired musical imagination’ (Gramophone). In demand as a concert soloist, Andrey has been invited to perform as a guest artist with notable orchestras across the globe: the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, to name a few.

Tracklisting:

Side A

Shostakovich

1. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12

24 Preludes, Op. 34

2. No. 1 in C Major. Moderato

3. No. 2 in A Minor. Allegretto

4. No. 3 in G Major. Andante

5. No. 4 in E Minor. Moderato

6. No. 5 in D Major. Allegro vivace

7. No. 6 in B Minor. Allegretto

8. No. 7 in A Major. Andante

9. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor. Allegretto

10. No. 9 in E Major. Presto

11. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor. Moderato non troppo

 

Side B

Shostakovich

24 Preludes, Op. 34

1. No. 11 in B Major. Allegretto

2. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor. Allegro non troppo

3. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major. Moderato

4. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor. Adagio

5. No. 15 in D-Flat Major. Allegretto

6. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor. Andantino

7. No. 17 in A-Flat Major. Largo

8. No. 18 in F Minor. Allegretto

9. No. 19 in E-Flat Major. Andantino

10. No. 20 in C Minor. Allegretto furioso

11. No. 21 in B-Flat Major. Allegretto poco moderato

12. No. 22 in G Minor. Adagio

13. No. 23 in F Major. Moderato

14. No. 24 in D Minor. Allegretto

15. The Limpid Stream, Op. 39: Nocturne (Arr. for Piano)