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photography by [alban gerhardt] Sim Canetty-Clarke
photography by [classical opera] Stephen Page
photography by [ian page] Stephen Page
photography by [jonathan cohen] Marco Borggreve
photography by [matthew rose] Lena Kern
photography by [matthew truscott] Pierre Doumenge
photography by [sarah fox] Grahame Mellanby
photography by [stefan blunier] Veerle Vercauteren
photography by [steven osborne] Benjamin Ealovega
photography by [tamsin waley-cohen, huw watkins] Patrick Allen
Recorded At Wyastone Concert Hall
Recorded At Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin
Recorded At Church Of St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead
Recorded At All Hallows, Gospel Oak
Recorded At Saffron Hall
Recorded At Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
Recorded At Potton Hall
Recorded At L'Église Notre-Dame, Herment
Recorded At All Saints Church, East Finchley
Recorded At St. John's, Smith Square
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Track 1 from 'Janáček & Smetana: String Quartets' (CDA67997)
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
composed in autumn 1923; 'Kraytserova sonata'; commissioned by the Czech Quartet
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth
Recording date: August 2014

Track 2 from 'Schubert: Impromptus, Piano pieces & Variations' (CDA68107)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Nos 1 & 2 composed in May 1828; No 3 probably autumn 1827; published in 1868
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth
Recording date: December 2014
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 3 from 'Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos' (CDA68063)
Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848-1890)
composed in 1870; first published in February 1873; dedicated to 'His Majesty Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, in deepest reverence'
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin
Recording date: August 2013

Track 4 from 'Arias for Benucci' (CDA68078)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
composed in 1790; aria for Guglielmo discarded from Così fan tutte, K588
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838)
liner notes © 2015
Mozart biography © 2007
Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Recording date: November 2013

Track 5 from 'Clausen & Paulus: Calm on the listening ear of night & other choral works' (CDA68110)
René Clausen (b1953)
commissioned by Rupert Gough and Royal Holloway Choir who gave the first performance at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music on 10 May 2014
text from the Bible, Luke 11: 2b-4
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London
Recording date: June 2014

Track 6 from 'Szymanowski & Hahn: Violin Sonatas' (Signum Classics SIGCD432)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
composed in 1904; first performed by Pawel Kochanski and Artur Rubinstein in Warsaw in 1909
liner notes © 2009
Recording venue: Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
Recording date: April 2015

Track 7 from 'Bruckner: Symphony No 9' (Signum Classics SIGCD431)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Leopold Nowak (1904-1991)
edited in 1951
liner notes © 2014
Recording venue: Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
Recording date: August 2014

Track 8 from 'Inside tracks – the James Rhodes mix tape' (Signum Classics SIGCD425)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
liner notes © 2005
Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Recording date: June 2008

Track 9 from 'Marcello: Psalms' (Signum Classics SIGCD391)
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
No 51: Infinite six-voice triple canon in lower fifth
Charles Avison (1709-1770)
text from the Bible, Psalms; No 51: Psalm 18: 4
Recording venue: Église Notre-Dame d'Herment
Recording date: August 2012

Track 10 from 'Rameau: Anacréon' (Signum Classics SIGCD402)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
composed in 1754
Louis de Cahusac (1706-1759)
liner notes © 2015
Rameau biography © 2004
Recording venue: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
Recording date: February 2014

Track 11 from 'Mozart: Il re pastore' (Signum Classics SIGCD433)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
composed in 1775
Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
liner notes © 2015
Mozart biography © 2007
Recording venue: St John's, Smith Square, London
Recording date: July 2014
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-99708 (track 1)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-10707 (track 2)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-06303 (track 3)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-07804 (track 4)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-11006 (track 5)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-43203 (track 6)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-43103 (track 7)
ISRC: GB-LLH-09-15313 (track 8)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-39102 (track 9)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-40204 (track 10)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-43329 (track 11)