New Release: Brahms Cello Sonatas on period instruments

We’re delighted to announce the release of a debut recording of the Brahms Cello Sonatas by cellist Kate Bennett Wadsworth and pianist Yi-heng Yang, using an original 1870 Streicher piano and based on the latest historical performance research into Brahms’ own playing style. Kate notes, ‘what excites me about studying Brahms-era performing practice is that […]

New Release: Martin Roscoe’s Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7: The Tempest

Martin Roscoe Beethoven Piano Sonatas v7

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Vol. 7 of Martin Roscoe’s cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas The main part of this volume is devoted to the Op 31 Sonatas composed in 1802 at a time when Beethoven was probably in the darkest place of his whole life, early in his thirties with the realisation […]

New musical portrait by Lucy Parham

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‘Elegie’ takes the listener on a journey through Rachmaninoff’s life from his early years in Russia, studying in Moscow and composing from his beloved country estate Ivanoka, before escaping the Revolution in 1918 to live in self-imposed political exile in Europe and America. He was never to return but left his heart forever in Russia… […]