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From the acclaimed educationalist and composer Paul Harris, Summer Sketches is a collection of delightful miniatures that evoke long days of warm sunshine – taking in carefree trips to the funfair, su...

Paderewski's pianistic repertoire centred upon compositions by Chopin, which he studied in great depth. The Danses polonaises Op9, which were composed in 1883 while Paderewski resided for the second t...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Symphonic Dances was Rachmaninoff’s final major work. Inon Barnatan comments, A few years ago, I came across a unique recording from 1940: a rough, private capture of Rachmaninoff playing through his...

These ten arrangements are a welcome addition to Rachmaninoff's small but important oeuvre for violoncello and piano. Klaus Simon explains that Rachmaninoff's songs are among the most beautiful in the...

Kyle MacLeod writes: "When attending a colleague’s violin recital, the moment she began playing the first movement of the Cinq mélodies I fell in love with it. I could hear that it would sit extremely...

This carol was commissioned by Richard Bristow for the choir of Wimbledon High, A Cappella, and first performed at Wimbledon’s Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday 17th December 2014. The snow lay on the...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

A setting of the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (‘Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head’), Winter-Time was written by the choristers of Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, under the d...

A setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem Dream Land, the raw emotional quality of Dreamland reflects on the beautiful imagery and themes of fantasy and death of the poem. Written in the Autumn of 2020,...

Cantata mundi is a development of ideas first heard in Songs of Sanctuary, where the world of ethnic influenced (both in vocal sound and percussion) are combined with established Western European clas...

Of all the souls was written for and performed at the wedding of its composer and lyricist (Ed and Alice Newton-Rex) in 2016. The profound and vow-like text encapsulates the essence of a fulfilled sea...

Commissioned by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for a commemorative event in 2022, this work presents the composer's celebrated Passcaglia for string orchestra of 1995 in a new scorin...

A welcome addition to this composer’s output of secular choral works, Oh Sleep! is a beautiful and lyrical setting which will be appreciated by choirs both amateur and professional. It was composed to...

Composed for performance at the 2022 Cumnock Tryst, the community-based annual music festival established by James MacMillan in the Ayrshire town where he grew up. MacMillan comments that “my earliest...