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Schumann Piano Music
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 024 - George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, Piano. Fantasiestücke Op.12, Papillons and Carnaval. Lazaridis has been described as "an exhilarating soloist", "a genius at work" and an artist of outstanding, world-class distinction. This recording is a sparkling demonstration of those gifts - not to be missed!
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Ravel Music for Two Pianos
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 025 - Jennifer Micallef & Glen Inanga Piano Duo. Rapsodie espagnole, Entre cloches, Ma mère l'oye, Ouverture de Shéhérazade and other pieces. The duo have won First Prizes and awards including the RTZ-CRA Ensemble Prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition, London. "Two-piano playing of sparkling vivacity and undoubted sensitivity from this young prizewinning duo" (Gramophone).
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Chopin & Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 026 - Jamie Walton, Cello. Charles Owen, Piano. Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65. Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19. Jamie Walton is one of the rising soloists of the new generation. He combines a warmth of tone with a technical command which reaches dazzling proportions. Charles Owen is one of the young leading British pianists of our time.
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The Piano Music of Janácek
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 028 - Charles Owen, Piano. The disc includes Janácek's most substantial work for piano - On an overgrown path, two sets of miniatures. Here as elsewhere, Janácek captures the imagination with these astonishingly vivid and touching vignettes recalling his childhood in Moravia. "Charles Owen is out of the best school of British pianism - bright, sensitive, unaffected and with playing informed by brainwork". The Glasgow Herald
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Cello Sonatas:Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, Miaskovsky
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 029 - Jamie Walton-Cello, Daniel Grimwood-Piano. All three works in this collection of sonatas were inspired by the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. There is a remarkable affinity and musical rapport between the cellist and pianist - they bring to this recording fresh ideas and the brilliance of their talent.
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Piano Music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 032 - Mark Bebbington,Piano.The moods and colours that distinguish Castelnuovo-Tedesco's piano music are strong, unequivocal and often ravishing. The immensely gifted young pianist Mark Bebbington has made this music popular throughout the UK and France.
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Piano Music by Francis Poulenc
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 035 - Charles Owen, Piano. This is Charles Owen's second disc in the "New Horizons" series (see SOMMCD 028). After Debussy and Ravel, and before Messiaen, Poulenc's is the most significant body of French solo piano music of the twentieth-century.In Charles Owen's own words -- "One of the great joys in playing this repertoire is the need to recapture the joie de vivre inherent in the music's conception."
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Piano Music by Ivor Gurney & Howard Ferguson
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 038 - Mark Bebbington, Piano. Neither Gurney's nor Ferguson's piano works are currently represented in the gramophone catalogue, apart from a 1942 recording of the Ferguson Piano Sonata by Myra Hess. We are particularly pleased therefore, to have this new release in the SOMM catalogue with Mark Bebbington, whose debut disc on "New Horizons" SOMMCD 032 (see earlier in catalogue) has had unprecedented success.
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Piano Music by Alexander Scriabin
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 041 - Daniel Grimwood, Piano. Grimwood brings freshness and colour to the 24 Preludes Op.11, capturing their many different moods. He is also capable of the most exquisite delicacy and shading of dynamics in the smaller works such as Désir No.1 Op.57 and Poème No.1 Op.32.
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Music from France & Spain
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 042 - Jamie Walton-Cello, Daniel Grimwood-Piano. Pieces include works by Ravel, de Falla, Fauré, Granados, Debussy, and Cassadò. Walton & Grimwood have performed together since their student days. Their recording of SOMMCD 029 was praised for their technical finesse and unusual dexterity and clarity - and so with this CD.
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Sonatas by R. Strauss & Rachmaninov
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 046 - Yuri Zhislin, Violin/Viola • George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, Piano. Strauss' Violin Sonata in E flat has a surging opening movement with operatic leanings with a melting subject announced on the piano, and immediately taken up by the violin. Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata in G minor gives the limited cello/piano repertoire one of its most popular and imposing works. Played by Zhislin in a beguiling transcription for viola by Vadim Borisovsky.
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A Garland of the Elizabethan
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 047 - The Clerks of Christ Church: Countertenor - John Cotton, Tom King • Tenor - Adrian Lowe, Brian Chapman • Baritone - Angus Wilson • Bass - William Gaunt. Five Centuries of Madrigals, Glees & Partsongs with Elizabethan Lyrics.This CD presents music inspired by some of the finest poetry written during the golden age of the Renaissance in England.
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Sergei Rachmaninov
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 048 - Martin Cousin, Piano. Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.28 • Morceaux de Salon for piano, Op.10. The Sonata showcases Cousin's huge talent in no uncertain way - he plays it with great élan and sensitivity. Coupled with the freshness and unpretentiousness of the Morceaux de Salon makes this a well-filled and enjoyable CD.
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EDWARD ELGAR Symphony No.1
ALAN BUSH Piano Sonata in B minor Op.2
SOMM NEW HORIZONS
SOMMCD 069 Mark Bebbington, Piano. Elgar: Symphony No.1 in A flat major Op.55 -- transc. for solo piano by Sigfrid Karg-Elert. Bush:Piano Sonata in B minor Op. 2. In celebration of 150 years from Elgar's birth in 1857, SOMM Recordings are pleased to announce the release of the recording in their "New Horizons" series of the piano transcription by Sigfrid Karg-Elert of Elgar's First Symphony coupled with the first recording of Alan Bush's youthful Sonata Op.2 with pianist Mark Bebbington. Mark's playing is full of memorable lyricism(especially of Bush).
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Piano Music by John Ireland Vol. 1
SOMMCD 074 Recorded in Birmingham’s splendid Symphony Hall with pianist Mark Bebbington and support from the John Ireland Trust, this release begins a thorough exploration of the Piano Music of John Ireland. The First Volume includes Ireland’s substantial Sonata, Decorations, London Pieces, the Ballade and the Sonatina.
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Opus 1: Schumann, Grieg, Brahms, Berg
SOMMCD 086 – SOMM’s new addition to NEW HORIZONS offers four major piano works recorded by the young Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson. They were all published by their composers as Opus 1 and together form an unusual and interesting collection.
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Piano Music by John Ireland Vol. 2
SOMMCD 088 Sarnia, Sea Idyll, Two Pieces from A Downland Suite, Greenways: Three Lyric Pieces, The Darkened Valley, Two Pieces (For Remembrance, Amberley Wild Brooks), Love is a Sickness. Mark Bebbington, piano
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Piano Music by Prokofiev
SOMMCD 089 Sonata No. 2, Op. 14, Sonata No. 4, Op. 29, Romeo& Juliet Suite, Op. 75,Toccata, Op. 11. Bobby Chen, piano
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Piano Music by John Ireland Vol. 3
SOMMCD 099 Rhapsody (1915), Two pieces, Four Preludes, Two Pieces, Ballade of London Nights, The Almond Tree, Three Dances, Prelude in E flat, First Rhapsody (Premiere Recording). Mark Bebbington, piano
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Piano music by Mendelssohn
SOMMCD 0104 Sonata In E Op.6, Variations In E Flat Op. 82, Sonate Écossaise, Op. 28, Songs Without Words - a selection from Opp.19, 38, 53, 62, 67. Alasdair Beatson, Piano
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