Discography
BEAU SOIR, with cellist Maciej Kułakowski, released October 2022
Elements of ‘Spanish’ style, blues and jazz, and the ironic humour of the Parisian café, encountered in sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel (Kułakowski’s cello rendering of the latter’s second violin sonata), are echoed in a brace of shorter works that includes several further transcriptions: of three short pieces by Debussy and of Satie’s Trois Gnossiennes.
THIS BE HER VERSE, with soprano Golda Schultz, released April 2022
“What if a woman wrote the song?” This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of powerful sirens like the Lorelei. The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke’s arresting William Blake settings offer a woman’s perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten. Devotional works from Nadia Boulanger reveal a compositional master in her own right, in addition to her legendary status as pedagogue to innumerable greats including Aaron Copland and Daniel Barenboim. This be Her Verse, a song cycle by poet-librettist Lila Palmer and composer Kathleen Tagg was directly commissioned by the artists to conclude the programme and add an important contribution to the repertory: Songs written by women, about women, highlighting the female experience.
MOZART VIOLIN SONATAS ON OBOE, with oboist Olivier Stankiewicz, released May 2021
Mozart’s sonatas for Violin and Piano K304, K378 and K454, with intrepid oboist Oliver Stankiewicz
SCHUBERT’S FOUR SEASONS, with mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty, released June 2020
A Schubertiade around the year, a pair of songs for each season.
MORGEN, with soprano Elsa Dreisig, released 17th January 2019
“Morgen is an inner journey through the seasons of the soul.” This album from Warner Classics - Erato interweaves beloved Lieder by Richard Strauss with works by Rachmaninov and Duparc and will be available on 17th January 2019 for purchase as well as streaming on all major platforms.
Schubert, Wolf and Medtner Lieder with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer, released on Berlin Classics
Available June 2019, this debut album from baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer features the songs of Schubert and Wolf alongside discoveries from the Goethe settings of the 20th-century Russian composer Nikolai Medtner.
Vatroslav Lisinsnki Pjesmi, with Renata Pokupič, Krešimir Stražanac, Croatian National Radio-Television, released summer 2019
Released by Croatian National Radaio-Television label, this album features songs and choruses in three languages by the Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski, with mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupič, bass-baritone Krešimir Stražanac and the Choir of the Croatian National Radio Television led by Tomislav Fačini.
