Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain
Fear of a Brown Planet [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 6/Oct/2011 ] PG - Contains coarse language. |
CYRIL SCOTT
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 / Sonata Melodica Claire Howick (violin) / Sophia Rahman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Works for violin and piano are an important part of Cyril Scott's chamber music. This disc presents three sonatas which span his output. The capricious and ruminative First Violin Sonata ranks among the most convincing and successful of his earlier... |
SMYTH / MACONCHY / POLDOWSKI / TATE / BARNES
British Women Composers Clare Howick (violin) / Sophia Rahman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "imaginative programme, brilliantly handled … a very generously filled CD." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2011) |
REBECCA CLARKE
Viola Music Philip Dukes (viola) / Sophia Rahman (piano) / Daniel Hope (violin) / Robert Plane (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "This is a very splendidly performed and recorded disc from Naxos that will undoubtedly bring the music of Rebecca Clarke to a wider audience" (MusicWeb Feb 2007) |
ALWYN
Chamber Music Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) / Lucy Gould (violin) / Robert Plane (clarinet) / Sophia Rahman (piano) / Sarah Francis (oboe) / Lucy Wakeford (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "Throughout the disc some of the UK's best known chamber musicians play with that innate feel for the music. Add a first class recording, and this is readily my Naxos disc of the month." (David's Review Corner) |
JOHN IRELAND
Ireland: Sextet / Clarinet Trio / Fantasy-Sonata / The Holy Boy Sophia Rahman (piano) / Alice Neary (Cello) / Robert Plane (Clarinet) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] A composition pupil of Stanford and recognised as an outstanding talent by Parry, John Ireland was inspired as a student by the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Elgar, and later by Debussy, Ravel and the early Stravinsky. This recording features the... |
CYRIL SCOTT
Sonata Lirica and other works for violin and piano Clare Howick (violin) Sophia Rahman (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 7/Mar/2008 ] "Scott's wonderful gift for melody flowers in this superb chamber recital." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2008 |
PROKOFIEV
Toccata / Sonata No. 2 / Sarcasmes / Visions Fugitives Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) [ Mirare / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] An eminent Chopin specialist and also a feisty proponent of the Prokofiev concertos, Abdel Rahman El Bacha is the ideal interpreter for these piano works, which range from the futurist strains of the Toccata Op.11 (1912) to the 'fleeting visions' of... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Chamber Symphony in C min, Piano Concerto No 1 in C min, etc BT Scottish Ensemble / John Wallace (trumpet) / Sophia Rahman (piano) / Clio Gould (artistic direction, violin) [ Linn Records / CD - released 25/Apr/2001 ] 12 highly talented string players perform Shostakovich to perfection |
SAINT-SAENS
Piano Concertos 1 and 2 Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) / Orchestre de Picardie / Pascal Verrot [ Calliope / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] Too often reduced to a few scores (Carnival of the Animals, La Danse Macabre, the Third Symphony with organ), the music of Saint-Saens did not deserve to be despised. And this disc admirable and admirably defended by its three protagonists provides... |