I have always been fascinated by the role of music in storytelling and how composers can conjure up atmospheres and environments through their harmonic and melodic choices, orchestral textures and use of colour. With so much wonderful piano music to play, I am also passionate about finding a narrative map through this vast landscape and […]

Most of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas were composed within a time span of no more than 6 years (1797-1803), with the exception of the last one, op. 96, which he began in 1812, taking probably a further 3 years to revise to his satisfaction. This means the set as a whole represents a relatively young […]

I recorded most of this album ten years ago as a birthday present for my father. For one reason and another I never got round to releasing it back then; but now I find that events in the world and in my life have turned my thoughts back to themes of Jewishness. It all began […]

For the first time the complete Beethoven Nine Symphonies has been recorded and presented in a 6-disc boxed set by a female conductor, Rimma Sushanskaya with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Most of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas were composed within a time span of no more than 6 years (1797-1803), with the exception of the last one, op. 96, which he began in 1812, taking probably a further 3 years to revise to his satisfaction. This means the set as a whole represents a relatively young […]

The settings heard on this disc meld together the talents of two outstanding creative artists, the composer Paul Honey and the poet Gregory Warren Wilson, producing a collection in which the inner life of the listener is both confronted and empowered. Warren Wilson’s metaphysically infused set of haiku, Earth’s Imagined Corners, derives its title from […]