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03/01/2025

Wonderful to start the new year with Gramophone's Charles Villiers Stanford Podcast — especially with the inclusion of recordings from our Stanford: The Travelling Companion album! Listen to the podcast now at https://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcasts/article/charles-villiers-stanford-jeremy-dibble-on-the-composer-s-music

31/12/2024

Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, musical, and HAPPY 2025! 🥂

23/12/2024

Following the success of Prokofiev Milestones Vol. 1, SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the release of the second volume of Prokofiev Milestones featuring the Slovenian violinist Lana Trotovsek and Spanish pianist Maria Canyigueral — available for pre-save and pre-order today via listn.fm/prokofievmilestonesv2

19/12/2024

Don't forget, our Holiday Sale ends tomorrow, 20 December! Save 20% on our Christmas and series at somm-recordings.com/sale

18/12/2024

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce a release devoted to the singular 20th century Spanish composer and pianist, Manuel de Falla, with three late-Romantic scores that capture the very essence of Spain: The Three-Cornered Hat, Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Seven Spanish Folksongs. Pre-order and listen to a track today on Apple Music's app and more via listn.fm/fallaorchestralworks

This recording features the Ulster Orchestra with their Principal Guest Conductor, Jac van Steen. The soloist for Noches en los jardines de España is the London based Brazilian pianist, Clelia Iruzun, one of SOMM’s long-time collaborators and treasured artists. She is undoubtedly amongst the finest pianists in South American and Iberian repertoire currently performing in Europe, and several composers have dedicated works to her. The prize-winning Irish mezzo soprano, Sarah Richmond - Mezzo Soprano, is making her CD debut in Siete canciones populares españolas.

17/12/2024

Start your 2025 listening early when you pre-add Volume 6 to your favourite streaming service today: listn.fm/brucknerarchivesv6

And don't forget to save on the entire collection during our Year-End Sale at somm-recordings.com/bruckner

16/12/2024

Lovely to see Rebeca Omordia's Vol. 2 in the Gramophone Best Recordings of The Year 2024 Issue!

“Rebeca Omordia's wonderful “African Pianism” series continues with a welcome introduction to more fascinating and varied music and composers from around the continent, all beautifully played.”

12/12/2024

Rebeca Omordia’s is an I Care if You Listen (.com) Recording of the Year!

09/12/2024

Thank you to the critics of MusicWeb International! SOMM is thrilled to have two recordings nominated in the 2024 Recordings of the Year. See the full list at https://bit.ly/4gnq6aP and get both recordings at somm-recordings.com

“Schmidt had a gift for the monumental. Here are two master-strokes from the 1950s enshrining two of his orchestral/choral works. These readings – OK; in less than modern 1950s and early 1960s sound – are utterly compelling. “Awesome” is a word much devalued these days but these statements of faith and the vivid imagery of the Book of Revelations do leave the listener in awe. The audio-engineer Lani Spahr has once again wrought well in these painstaking revivals. It is time for a well-wisher to revise his inadequate Wiki entry.” —Rob Barnett

“Good though Williams’ Prokofiev and Schumann are – and they are very good – it was her performance of the Op126 Bagatelles that had me panting for more late Beethoven from her.” —David McDade

07/12/2024

Lovely feature for Artur Pizarro and Ludovico Troncanetti - pianista's Saint-Saëns Music for Two Pianos in the latest issue of International Piano Magazine! Add it to your collection today at listn.fm/saintsaens2pianos

“there's a chemistry that makes for scintillatingly driven pianism, high on musicality, virtuosity and togetherness.” —Ateş Orega, International Piano

04/12/2024

Fantastic review for Madeleine Mitchell violinist and the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet in the latest issue of Gramophone! https://bit.ly/3Zfbl2S

“I love the way Madeleine Mitchell and her colleagues let the music unfold in a natural manner, as though they were treading the very contours of Howell’s beloved landscape at Chosen. The high tessitura for first violin, notably in the commanding climax of the first movement, holds no bars for the leader, who, alongside her players, so fervently projects the ecstatic elasticity embedded in the music. … thrillingly realised in [a] dynamic performance.… ” —Adrian Edwards

02/12/2024

Presto Music nominates our Series an Archive Project of the Year! See the Awards list at https://bit.ly/3ZxD8Nh

27/11/2024

⭐⭐⭐⭐ for Madeleine Mitchell violinist and the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet's Howells & Wood recording in The Guardian! https://bit.ly/4eOh0Ts

““In Gloucestershire”… is a stirring work, full of vitality, expertly played here by the London Chamber Ensemble… The other main work is by Howells’s teacher at the Royal College of Music, Charles Wood… Melodic, expansive, with hints of Irish folk song and a touch of Brahms, it’s an attractive work that merits this committed and rewarding performance.” —Fiona Maddocks

25/11/2024

Fantastic praise for Rebeca Omordia and Vol. 2 in Magazine!

“Combine evocative material by the composers and the pianist's indelible readings and the result is an eminently satisfying sequel to her stellar first chapter.” —Ron Schepper https://www.textura.org/archives/o/omordia_africanpianismvol2.htm

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Listen to the opening movement of Bruckner's Te Deum led by Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein when you pre-add #BrucknerFromTheArchives Vol. 5 to your Apple Music library and more: listn.fm/brucknerarchivesv5

A listen to the stirring ending of the Andante assai espressivo movement from Herbert Howells “In Gloucestershire” Quartet from Madeleine Mitchell violinist and the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet! Listen to more from this recording now when you pre-add it to your library via listn.fm/howellswoodquartets

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration - African Piansim, Volume Two - Classical Instrumental Solo

SOMM Recordings is pleased to present Rebeca Omordia's African Pianism, Volume Two For Your GRAMMY® Consideration in the Classical Instrumental Solo category! Listen to the recording on all major platforms at listn.fm/africanpianism2

Madeleine Mitchell introducesn Luchinushka

Madeleine Mitchell violinist introduces her new arrangement of “Luchinushka” from Herbert Howells 3 Pieces, Op. 28 with the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet! Hear it now on Apple Music's #AppleClassical app listn.fm/howellswoodquartets and on 17 October at the Red Violin Festival!

Maria Narodytskay: After

Listen now to Maria Narodytska - Pianist's own composition, “After” on her new album War Poems when you pre-add it on Apple Music and more: listn.fm/warpoems “I wrote this piece shortly before the recording, and for me it is a direct reflection of the war in Ukraine. While writing it, I was imagining what happens after one gets a call that no one would want to get or reads the news that no one would like to read. It’s the kind of ‘after’ as in: ‘life got divided into before and after’.” —Maria Narodytska

Masques, Op. 34: M35: I. Scheherazade

Don't miss Maria Narodytska's #WarPoems release #nowplaying in Apple Music's “Modernism and Postmodernism” #AppleClassical playlist! 🍎 🎧 https://apple.co/3V9pYnJ

Rebeca Omordia in Pure Piano!

More love from Apple Music and #AppleClassical for Rebeca Omordia's African Pianism Volume Two! ▶️ https://apple.co/45XEORI

Nabil Benabdeljalil: Romance sans paroles in Apple Music

Don't miss Rebeca Omordia's recording of Nabil Benabdeljalil's “Romance sans paroles” in Apple Music's New in Classical and The Works playlists on the #AppleMusicClassical app! ➡️ listn.fm/africanpianism2

SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce African Pianism, Volume 2, a new instalment in a collection of piano music by African composers! Available now for preview and pre-order: listn.fm/africanpianism2 Following suit from her critically acclaimed first African Pianism album, Rebeca Omordia brings us a fascinating programme with no less than 8 First Recordings. Among these is the 4th in a selection of three Studies in African Pianism by Akin Euba, a Nigerian composer who makes a return on this second volume and whose “African Pianism” style, inspired by the research of Ghanaian composer J.H. Kwabena Nketia (see vol.1), shares its name with this outstanding series as a whole.

Cyril Scott's Pastoral and Reel

Tonight, Adrian Bradbury & Andrew West commemorarte the centenary of the first Nightingale Broadcast with a launch concert in Foyle Riding! The exact date and location of Beatrice Harrison's BBC broadcast. We'll have photos from the remarkable event soon - but in the meantime, enjoy a look back in the studios to Cyril Scott's Pastoral and Reel. It was this work which Beatrice's sister Margaret Harrison performed with Julian Lloyd Webber to commemorarte Beatrice Harrison's own centenary during a concert in 1992. Add the album to your library on all streaming services.