Voces Oxonienses - Way to Heaven: Choral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Georgian pianist Tamar Beraia writes of this InchIt is an enormous pleasure for me to introduce my second solo album, featuring works by Beethoven and Liszt. These two composers have exerted a strong influence on me throughout my life and played a paramount role in forming me as a musician. I could be wild and unlimited in expression in Liszt, sincere and firm when playing Beethoven. The two, in tandem, always helped me convey my complex individuality. I was 17 years old when I experienced my first encounter with the most sublime works these two composers ever wrote. Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata in B flat Major, Op. 106 and Liszt's Sonata in B Minor introduced me to new worlds of imagination, sounds, forms, and shapes. I was riveted by their intensity of expression, by the contrasts and the poetry they contain. It felt like diving beneath the surface of the ocean to discover a completely different universe with new colors, shapes, and unusual movements, or like being catapulted to the cosmos, surrounded by infinite space and time, exposed to the wonder and mystery of the universe.Inch

James Cook writes for voices, mainly a capella, in numbers ranging from four to forty-plus. This disc includes less complicated items, written very much in the Anglican choral tradition, and ideal for church and amateur choirs. All first recordings.

Michael Lynche, InchBig MikeInch won over the hearts of America on AMERICAN IDOL. His self-titled album infuses R&B, urban and vintage soul. The debut single InchWho's Gonna Love You MoreInch was co-written by Michael and defines true love; the central theme of the album.