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The sound of decades-old gramophone records found inside a Nazi U-boat has been captured for the first-ever time. Dubbed the “shipwreckords,” the records were discovered in a submarine that was sunk ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) has acquired the multi-Gramophone Award-winning British classical label Hyperion Records. Hyperion (founded by Ted Perry in 1980) will join UMG’s portfolio, taking its ...

This is the first time in the history of the Gramophone Record Awards that everyone who voted in a category placed the same record first. And that was certainly not for want of competition. There were ...

In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the origins and history of a popular British company When the audio production company Floating Earth was set up in 1987 – making ...

Hyperion Records, one of the most admired and successful of specialist classical music labels, is from today available on streaming services. The entire catalogue will be uploaded in stages over the ...