British Music for Piano Duo

Chisholm, E.: Music for Piano, Vol. 2

Berger, Leon: The Grossmith Legacy

Clementi on Clementi

Polish pianist Alicja Fiderkiewicz has appeared with number of major orchestras, including the Hallé, Da Camera, Manchester Camerata, La Scala in Milan, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Polish Radio & TV Orchestra, and many others. + This live recording of her 2004 recital demonstrates her affinity with the Romantic music of the late 19th c. and especially with her compatriots Chopin and Syzmanowski. + “... a pianist of rare quality ... she plays with the kind of old-fashioned simplicity associated with… Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Artur Rubinstein ... ” – Piano Magazine

The long and vibrant tradition of art-song in England has seen many great composers from Finzi to Vaughan Williams, Gurney to Moeran and Warlock and countless more, supported for many years now by the English Poetry and Song Society. This is the third of four album sof live EPSS concert performances made by Dunelm for private use and now on general release due to demand; it contains work sby major composers and also the seven excellent finalists in the EPSS competition of 2004. The concert commemorates the tragic victims of the 1914-8 war including poet/composer Ivor Gurney amongst others. These EPSS recordings were made on portable recording equipment and with less than ideal microphone placement and are not to our usual modern standard. However they contain fine performances and many very unfamiliar and exquisite songs, which will delight any over of late-Romantic vocal music.

Polish pianist Alicja Fiderkiewicz has appeared with number of major orchestras, including the Hallé, Da Camera, Manchester Camerata, La Scala in Milan, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Polish Radio & TV Orchestra, and many others. + This live recording of her 2004 recital demonstrates her affinity with the Romantic music of the late 19th c. and especially with her compatriot Chopin. + “... a pianist of rare quality ... she plays with the kind of old-fashioned simplicity associated with… Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Artur Rubinstein ... ” – Piano Magazine

The long and vibrant tradition of art-song in England has seen many great composers from Finzi to Vaughan Williams, Gurney to Moeran and Warlock and countless more, supported for many years now by the English Poetry and Song Society. This is the second of four albums of live EPSS concert performances made by Dunelm for private use and now on general release due to demand; it contains works by major composers and also the five excellent finalists in the EPSS competition of 2001.The concert and competition commemorated the bicentenary of the birth of Dorset dialect poet William Barnes. These EPSS recordings were made on portable recording equipment and with less than ideal microphone placement and are not to our usual modern standard. However they contain fine performances and many very unfamiliar and exquisite songs, which will delight any over of late-Romantic vocal music.

Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol. 7

The centerpiece of this album is Cooman's textured Fourth Symphony which like the album is titled Liminal. The word liminal means 'on the edge' or 'on the brink of change' and Cooman applies this both thematically and musically to the Earth and climate change, and also to all modern cultures with their tenuous connections with the past, present and future. The work is written for full orchestra and two harps, one of which is tuned down by a microtone, which adds an extra tension and layer to the piece. Shoreline Rune, is dedicated to composer Judith Weir on her 60th birthday. , and the organ piece Prism performed by Erik Simmons on the organ of Martinikerk, Doesburg, in the Netherlands.

The long and vibrant tradition of art-song in England has seen many great composers from Finzi to Vaughan Williams, Gurney to Moeran and Warlock and countless more, supported for many years now by the English Poetry and Song Society. This is the first of four albums of live EPSS concert performances made by Dunelm for private use and now on general release due to demand; it contains works by major composers and also the five excelelnt finalists in the EPSS competition of 2006. The concert took place to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the publication of A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Land. These EPSS recordings were made on portable recording equipment and with less than ideal microphone placement and are not to our usual modern standard. However they contain fine performances and many very unfamiliar and exquisite songs, which will delight any lover of late-Romantic vocal music.

Polish pianist Alicja Fiderkiewicz has appeared with number of major orchestras, including the Hallé, Da Camera, Manchester Camerata, La Scala in Milan, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Polish Radio & TV Orchestra, and many others. + She has also given recitals for BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV. + This live recording of her 2007 Schumann recital demonstrates her affinity with the Romantic music of the late 19th century. + “... a pianist of rare quality ... she plays with the kind of old-fashioned simplicity associated with… Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Artur Rubinstein ... ” – Piano Magazine

Lads of Love and Sorrow

Strings in the Earth and Air

Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol. 6