SOMM Recordings

13/05/2025

Don't miss Cristian Sandrin - pianist's Purcell Complete Suites for Keyboard featured on France Musique's En pistes! program this Friday (release day!): https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/en-pistes/les-intemporelles-quatre-saisons-de-vivaldi-8899724

09/05/2025

Wonderful feature for pianist Simon Callaghan from Presto Music, and a feature for his SOMM albums of music by Roger Sacheverell Coke and George Dyson!

In the latest episode of Presto Presents, pianist and musicologist Simon Callaghan discusses two of the neglected composers he's been championing over the past few years - Roger Sacheverell Coke (1912-72) and Jean Louis Nicodé (1863-1919) - and performs two pieces from Nicodé's Ein Liebesleben Op....

08/05/2025

Don't miss Margaret Fingerhut on the Gramophone blog as she reflects on heritage, history, and hope in her recording Ukraine – A Piano Portrait: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/ukraine-in-music-rediscovering-a-nation-s-voice-through-the-piano

06/05/2025

Two works from Cristian Sandrin - pianist's Complete Suites of Henry Purcell are out now on and more via listn.fm/purcellcompletesuites

Making his SOMM debut, Romanian-British pianist Cristian Sandrin is a rising young artist. Reviewers have noted “Sandrin’s generous sonorities issue forth in marvellous diversity,” (Fanfare) and “immaculate” (Music Web International) playing. Listen now!

02/05/2025

More praise for Chu-Yu Yang and Eric McElroy's from MusicWeb International!

“This is a delightful CD of music by English composers played by Taiwanese violinist Chu-Yu Yang and the composer/pianist Eric McElroy. The first of these is a composer who is, in my view, significantly underrated and unappreciated: Ian Venables. … SOMM Recordings should be congratulated on once again bringing us a CD focussing on the many treasures to be found in music by English composers. With excellent recording quality and the virtuosic and wonderful playing of the soloists, it’s a superb release.” —Ken Talbot (full review linked in comments)

🎧 listn.fm/englishpastoral

01/05/2025

“This is a valuable and fascinating document of a live broadcast from the Royal Festival Hall in January 1964, and much expertise has been brought to bear in revitalising the historic recording. Sargent is fully convincing, having the measure of two difficult works, and the BBC SO respond well.” —Andrew Plant, British Music Society

Add it to your library now: listn.fm/holstbenimora

29/04/2025

TWO of our April releases have made the Official Charts! Congratulations to Eric McElroy, Chu-Yu Yang, and Margaret Fingerhut on incredible starts! And thank you to YOU for purchasing, downloading, and streaming these marvelous recordings!

24/04/2025

On 16 May, SOMM Recordings is proud to mark the centenary of the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925–18 May 2012) by adding to his canonical discography with live recital and concert recordings from the Music Preserved archive. Fischer-Dieskau was at the very height of his powers from 1960–75, and the performances on this album date from that period. A bonus CD contains two interviews conducted by Jon Tolansky—appearing here in their entirety for the first time—the 75th Birthday Interview (2000) and 80th Birthday Interview (2005)!

Pre-order and pre-save today at listn.fm/fischer-dieskaucentenary

21/04/2025

More of the best-loved, most-listened-to classical recordings of the last 25 years.

21/04/2025

If you missed Eric McElroy and Joe Chu-Yu Yang live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune, listen back now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029py6

18/04/2025

🙌 Our acclaimed April releases are officially available today! Find all three at somm-recordings.com or on all major retailers via:

▶️ https://listn.fm/ukrainepianoportrait
▶️ https://listn.fm/englishpastoral
▶️ https://listn.fm/holstbenimora