The Quatuor Hermès (Omer Bouchez, violin 1; Elise Liu, violin 2; Lou Yung-Hsin Chang, viola; and Yan Levionnois, cello) have brought together three musical emblems of Vienna on their new album Echoes of Vienna. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Anton Webern

English partsongs have a special sound. In this SOMM Recordings release, The Mira Ensemble presents the partsongs of Herbert Howells (1892–1983), all but one of which are first recordings. Herbert Howells is best known for his vocal writing and, in

In this recording on SOMM Records, Russian pianist Nikolay Medvedev (b. 1986) takes three composers, the Ukrainian Nikolai Kapustin and the Americans George Gershwin and Earl Wild, and presents us with a powerful and flowing examination of that wonderful fusion

Irish composer Charles Wood (1866–1926) wrote six string quartets, all of which were unpublished at his death. Oxford University Press issued his complete quartets, along with the Variations on an Irish Folk Tune, in 1929, as a tribute to the

In this new recording on SOMM (SOMMCD 0722), clarinettist Peter Cigleris brings us three 20th-century clarinet concertos, all dating from 1948, one by Denis ApIvor (1916–2004), one by Freda Swain (1902–1985), and the last by Gerald Finzi (1901–1956). Despite coming

In its latest issue in its series The Beecham Collection, SOMM Recordings puts together 3 works well-known through their studio recordings, but these live recordings bring something new and vital to what you know of his work. Sir Thomas Beecham

British composer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) taught at the Royal College of Music from 1956 until his retirement in 1982. As a composer, he wrote across many different genres, from opera and large-scale orchestral music to

The all-female a cappella vocal quintet Papagena was formed in 2015, and is made up of sopranos Elizabeth Drury, Imogen Ram-Prasad, and Suzzie Vango; mezzo-soprano Shivani Rattan; and alto Sarah Tenant-Flowers. Each of the members brings a speciality to the