New cd release of Hough, Dutilleux and Ravel

We are delighted that a project in the making for several years has come to fruition with our latest Hyperion release. We commissioned Stephen Hough to write a companion piece for this disc, and are thrilled with the result, Six Rencontres. ‘ It’s a lovely work, full of wit and panache, that could hardly have more committed, persuasive advocates than the Takács Quartet’ — James Longstaffe, Presto Music. ‘In the Takács’ hands, Ainsi la Nuit skips weightlessly from gauzy otherworldliness to coiled-spring punchiness to gossamer delicacy’ — Erica Jeal, Guardian