Browse: Somm (label)

American composer Eric McElroy has excellent taste in poetry...These are songs that at every turn revel in the interplay of music and language, and are performed with aplomb by James Gilchrist... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a sumptuous collection of goodies to which Silver’s rich, full lyric instrument is ideally suited, and her French is excellent. Anyone who loves the Flower duet from Delibes’s Lakmé…will find... — Sunday Times, January 2016 More…

Bebbington is adept at getting to the lyrical heart of a work, and the interpretative gem here is perhaps his intensely sympathetic reading of Gerald Finzi's short Eclogue for piano and strings. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

O the pleasure of discovering these songs in performances as good as these — Gramophone Magazine More…

Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

evidently taped off-air with less than the highest end equipment. Yet what comes through is a blazing performance – further evidence that Beecham was evidently far more inspired live than is... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The virtues of Leon McCawley's Chopin playing are impressive, which will come as no surprise to those who know his earlier recordings. These beautifully recorded performances are characterised... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Cummings doesn't miss a detail: every trill and ornament is realised with the utmost clarity and his expertly balanced playing manages the rare feat of making the melody lines truly cantabile.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…