Common Music Group has acquired the British indie classical label Hyperion Data, the corporate introduced Wednesday (March 15).
The 43-year-old label — which is house to artists like Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt and Stephen Osborne and represents a catalog of two,5000 recordings, a few of which date again to the twelfth century — will function as a standalone label inside Common Music U.Okay. alongside Decca Classics. Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Hyperion will now be a part of Decca Classics and Deutsche Grammophon in UMG’s classical portfolio, whereas Simon Perry — who has overseen the label for greater than 20 years, after taking up from his father, Hyperion founder Ted Perry — will stay as managing director.
“I’m thrilled to carry Hyperion to Common Music Group, an organization that shares Hyperion’s dedication to bringing essentially the most distinctive and good musicians to as broad a public as attainable,” Perry stated in a press release. “By being a part of UMG, whereas retaining our artists and employees collectively, we are able to proceed to construct on my father’s legacy and that of everybody who’s been a part of the Hyperion household over the previous 43 years. My debt to all of them is large and I look ahead to main this unbelievable label into an thrilling new chapter.”
Hyperion is subsequent set to launch Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica and Symphony No.9 with BBC Symphony Orchestra, a sequence it says is devoted to the Plenty and Magnificats of Cristóbal de Morales, in addition to recordings from the London Haydn Quartet and Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity Faculty, Cambridge, amongst others. In a press release, UMG president/CEO of worldwide classics and jazz Dickon Stainer known as Hyperion “a jewel of a label,” including that “we’re dedicated to persevering with the magnificent work performed by the Perry household and to preserving and constructing on the particular place Hyperion occupies within the hearts of artists and music followers alike.”
The acquisition comes amid a veritable wave of stories spilling from the world of classical music these days. In November, Deutsche Grammophon launched a new standalone streaming service, Stage+, catering to its personal catalog and that of Decca Classics. And earlier this month, Apple Music announced its own standalone streaming app, Apple Music Classical, which can roll out later this month and stems from its August 2021 acquisition of Primephonic.
“We’re enormously proud that Hyperion has joined Common’s household of classical labels to sit down alongside Decca Classics in London,” Decca Label Group co-presidents Tom Lewis and Laura Monks stated in a press release. “Simon and his father have created an important recorded classical catalogue that serves a devoted international viewers. And the label continues to work with artists who’re the perfect of the perfect. We’re decided to rejoice the label’s legacy and proceed its extraordinary story.”
