ASC Records & Prima Facie Records

23/01/2024

Prima Facie Records have commenced the recording and release on CD of all of Richard Pantcheff's chamber music.

02/01/2024

New CDs on Prima Facie Records:

The Frederick Septimus Kelly Project (PFCD218) Composer: F.S.Kelly Composer: Sadie Harrison Pianist: Alex Wilson https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/fs_kelly_project.html

The Complete Solo Piano Works of GORDON CROSSE (PFCD219) Annabelle Wiles – piano https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/crosse_complete_piano.html

Duncan Honeybourne plays the 1873 Bevington organ at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Bincombe, Dorset (PFCD220) Compositions by Byrd, J. S. Bach, Joubert & others https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/bincombe_organ.html

Four Nocturnes / Viola Sonata (PFCD226) Composed by Daryl Runswick. Featuring London Voices, National Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble conducted by Ben Parry, Caleb Sibley viola, Aleksander Szram piano https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/four_nocturnes.html

26/10/2023

In a fascinating interview with the Liszt Academy, Kenneth Hamilton discusses playing in Budapest, his approach to performing Liszt, and his series of Prima Facie Records CDs, 'Kenneth Hamilton plays Liszt'. You can read the interview at https://lisztmuseum.hu/news/a-student-of-franz-liszt-at-a-distance-of-150-years-125445

22/09/2023

Released today, the first in the Prima Facie 'Vignette' series of download/streaming releases by contemporary composers; 'Early Piano Music by Peter Longworth', performed by Simon Conning. 'The Night Fisher for Solo Piano' (2010) and 'Sonata "Scorsese" for Solo Piano' (2010) are highly individual and atmospheric compositions, influenced by Ravel, jazz and film music – read more and listen at https://ascrecords.com/primafacie/piano_works_longworth.html

28/07/2023

5 ⭐️ Review - “Pianistic flair and technical brilliance are the hallmarks of this winning record”

Classical CD of the week in the Guardian, Kenneth Hamilton’s Prima Facie album ‘Salon and Stage’!

Pianistic flair and technical brilliance are the hallmarks of this winning record, in which Hamilton delivers Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Schubert, Wagner and others

06/05/2023

New CDs from Prima Facie Records:

Inventions: Contemporary Music for Harpsichord Vol 2 (PFCD195) Compositions by Stephen Dodgson and Elizabeth Maconchy performed by Katarzyna Kowalik

Richard Pantcheff: Music for Organ and other Instruments (PFCD205) Neil Fulton flugelhorn, Benedict Holland violin, Simon Passmore organ

06/12/2021

Available now at https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/death_transfiguration.html – Kenneth Hamilton plays Liszt Volume 1: Death and Transfiguration (PFCD167/168) is a UK Official Classical Chart Top 5 Recording!

This is a Liszt recording with a difference: repertoire reflecting love, death and transfiguration, memory and nostalgia, performed by internationally renowned pianist and Liszt expert Kenneth Hamilton.New insights abound, even in such popular pieces as the Sonata in B minor: Hamilton’s powerful recording reflects not only the interpretative nuances suggested by Liszt, but also adopts a strikingly moving revised reading of the Sonata’s final page.

Andrew Clements in The Guardian writes "This wide-ranging collection of Liszt’s piano music meets its technical challenges with rare directness and clarity... As in Hamilton’s earlier discs – his recordings of Ronald Stevenson’s piano works especially – there is always the feeling that the music comes first, that the performances are a means to an end rather than a self-regarding end in themselves, and that is both liberating and totally refreshing for the listener."