Browse: Somm (label)

this account of the Russian’s Opus 57, composed in 1940, from Martin Cousin and the Villiers Quartet doesn’t force the pace or the emotional content, but rather lets the score speak for itself... — Classical Ear, 9th November 2016 More…

Under the meticulous direction of William Vann, their reading of Howells’s A Spotless Rose is, well, spotless, while John Rutter’s Dormi, Jesu is saved from schmaltz and sung with the sweet,... — The Guardian, 18th December 2016 More…

[Peter Donohoe] finds a nobility in the First Sonata’s closing ‘Funebre’, bringing a curious reflective quality to its ‘Quasi niente’ central section. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Plummy, bass-heavy, recorded sound doesn’t do justice to the lovely tone of this most engaging of pianists. Her fingerwork is superlative (try Daquin's Le coucou), and Tippett's First Sonata... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

playing of considerable tonal subtlety, refinement and poise. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The grand scale and imposing architecture of the Reminiscenza, Romantica and Minacciosa sonatas…are superbly grasped by the Italian Alessandro Taverna…this first class recording, with its thought-provoking... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

All told, this is another feather in the cap for the increasingly impressive Vann-Royal Hospital Chelsea partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars(Recording) More…

the finest, most technically secure singing in the recital comes from baritone Roderick Williams, whose outstanding diction in no way compromises the evenness and sustained tonal plenitude of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…