Musician sentenced

The Hyperion recordings of the King’s Consort, a leading British period-instrument group, will remain available despite the conviction and sentencing this week of founder Robert King to almost four years’ imprisonment for 14 incidents of indecent assault over an 11-year period, the British label said Wednesday.

“Hyperion Records does not wish to comment on the private lives of its artists,” Hyperion director Simon Perry said by e-mail. The recordings, he said, “have involved the efforts of literally hundreds of first-rate musicians and it does not seem fair or appropriate to restrict their work from sale. Mr. King does not receive income from continuing sales of Hyperion CDs.”

A jury of five men and seven women in Isleworth Crown Court in London heard testimony that King, 46, abused five boys ages 12 to 16 after plying most of them with alcohol, beginning when King was 21 and a recent graduate of Cambridge University.

The King’s Consort has made 95 Hyperion recordings that have sold a total of more than 1 million copies. The record label did not comment on the future of the group, founded in 1980.