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 […]

The rehabilitation of Liszt has been a gradual process, and is certainly not yet fully achieved. Such considerations may still fall within the realm of the specialist, for his most popular solo piano works have always been found in the repertoire of every virtuoso, although it is only in the last few decades that pianists […]