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Gramophone Reviews Bernstein Broadway to Hollywood

Gramophone Magazine reviews our Ariadne release of Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood in the October 2018 issue: “[Iain Sutherland’s] Bernstein is strong and trenchant, often exhilarating, never sentimental. The dances from West Side Story blend energy with restraint, the opening bristling with tension, the Mambo hard-driven and electric, the ‘Somewhere’ Adagio clean and very reined in. […]

Musical Opinion Review for Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood

Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood is “fully recommended” “2018 marks the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein – and doesn’t the musical world know it!… Sutherland’s grasp of the musical qualities of each score is impressive. Most notable is the symphonic suite ‘On the Waterfront’, which receives a performance of genuine insight. This is worth […]

Great American Sonatas

Shop Now January 2017 – Great American Sonatas recorded by Nathan Williamson featuring works by Bernstein, Copland, Ives and Harrison. An exciting new release of American Piano Sonatas from SOMM this month, to remind us of 20th- century America’s achievements in music as in so much else. SOMM’s new collaboration with pianist Nathan Williamson who […]