Sophie Harris - I Feel the Silence - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the of Mirage, a recital of piano music by Stephen Dodgson performed by Osman Tack in his impressive tag debut. Featuring 24 first recordings, Mirage is the third volume in a series marking the 10th anniversary of Dodgson's death in 2013, and celebrates a composer of Inchurbane and civilisedInch music, as Robert Matthew-Walker describes it in informative booklet notes. The recital spans seven decades from 1956's Eight Fanciful Preludes - Incha judiciously varied suite... bound by the directness of utterance that so distinguished Dodgson's musicInch - to the Six Bagatelles composed between 1998 and 2005 when Inchhis inspiration burned brightly in his eightiesInch. Also included are the Inchvastly impressiveInch Piano Sonata No.7 (Dodgson's last) from 2003; the InchsignificantInch Three Impromptus (1962, revised 1985), and the varied, impressionistic Four Moods of the Wind Suite (1968). A bonus track, the Rondo in A flat from 1953, will be available for downloading on digital platforms. Osman Tack is a former Chandos Young Musician of the Year who has performed throughout the UK and internationally as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician (having won the Pro-Corda Festival competition). Dodgson's Songs Volume 1, The Peasant Poet (SOMMCD 0659) was hailed by Opera Today as Inchan incredibly interesting and engaging disc... done excellent service by all the performersInch. Of Volume 2, The Distances Between (SOMMCD 0673), the British Music Society said Inchthe performances (by some prestigious names) and the warm, lifelike recording are impeccableInch. SOMM's championing of British song includes Stanford's Children's Songs (SOMMCD 0655), Inchfairly and squarely in the great English song traditionInch (MusicWeb International), and Roderick Williams and Susie Allan's Celebrating English Song (SOMMCD 0177), lauded by Gramophone

How composers draw their creative lives to a close continues to fascinate. Are their final works the culmination of all that has gone before or suggest what might have come next? Did illness enhance their profundity or diminish their powers? Can we listen to such pieces without thinking of them as some kind of message from beyond the grave? The music featured on this fascinating program from violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Ian Buckle each suggest different answers to these questions and challenges some preconceptions. In their last years, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) both continued to be inspired by musicians around them. Schumann in post-revolutionary Germany and Schoenberg in post-war America looked back to classical models, to reinvigorate, even lighten, their compositional approach. That sense of playing with history is also evident in the music of Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov (b. 1937), who has claimed InchI do not write new music. My music is a response to, and an echo of what already exists.Inch

Sophie Harmsen - Complete Songs [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/19/2012