Dear friends, I am writing to you as the CEO of SOMM Recordings, a small, award-winning independent label with a great reputation for discovering and promoting lesser-known works and composers and for giving its artists the support they need in order to promote their careers. Since founding the label, 30 years ago, I have recorded […]
Following a hugely successful first recording of Elgar’s choral works for SOMM Recordings, the renowned Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea will be making a second disc, paying homage to his extraordinary quality and breadth of writing. Released in 2022, ‘The Reeds by Severn Side’ received extensive critical acclaim: ‘All told, this is another […]
Our new Schmidt: The Book With Seven Seals; Symphony No. 4 release in celebration of Franz Schmidt’s 150th Anniversary has recived a Díapason D’or distinction from Díapason Magazine! “SOMM offers two ultimate masterpieces of Franz Schmidt in two historic engravings… It is [Rudolf Moralt and the Vienna Symphony’s] reading of warm lyricism and poignant emotion […]
Don’t miss the June 2024 Issue of Gramophone Magazine, which features a fantastic review — and Editor’s Choice distinction — for Bruckner from the Archives, Volume 1! “Bruckner’s ‘Study’ Symphony (also known as Symphony ‘No 00’) was completed in 1863 and can be located within the Kitzler ‘Study Book’, which Bruckner used during his time […]
American Record Guide’s January/February issue features a wonderful review for Alexander Karpeyev, Natalia Lomeiko, and Theodore Platt’s Medtner in England recording: “Nikolai Medtner (1879–1951) has been with some justice described as a Russian Brahms. Like Brahms’s, his music is serious, well made, and usually “absolute” as opposed to programmatic, and subtly incorporates ethnic elements. His […]
The London Handel Players received a Five Star Performance AND Five Star Recording rating for their Total Eclipse: Handel at Home, Vol. 2 release in the December 2023 issue of BBC Music Magazine! “turning period arrangements of Handel opera hits into searingly gorgeous instrumental music.… Making such creations fizz is no easy task, requiring as […]
International Piano Magazine’s Jeremy Nicholas spoke with Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman about their project to record Scharwenka’s arrangements of Beethoven’s complete symphonies for piano duet in the May 2023 issue of the magazine! “‘It was the music director of a festival in the City [of London] at St Lawrence Jewry, Graham Allan, who called […]
The Times‘ Jessica Duchen has selected her “Top 10 best classical records of 2022” and our Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 1 recording featuring Sir Malcolm Sargent leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has made the list! “Scrubbing up under expert technological ablutions, the RPO under Sargent sounds simply electrifying in this […]
Canada’s Textura Magazine has released their Top Albums of 2022, and Rebecca Omordia’s African Pianism (#4) and the Minerva Piano Trio’s Dance! (#16) are both in their Top 20 Classical (Instrumental) albums of the year! “No one would seem to be better equipped to present the music of African composers Akin Euba, Ayo Bankole, Christian […]
SOMM Recordings is thrilled to share that our Serge Koussevitzky Conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra – Live recording has been nominated for a 2023 International Classical Music Award in the Historical Album category! This year’s nominations include many renowned soloists, ensembles, conductors and orchestras as well as a lot of young musicians, many of them […]