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photography by [alec roth] Helen Smith
photography by [angela hewitt] Bernd Eberle
photography by [bbc scottish symphony orchestra] John Wood
photography by [ex cathedra] Adrian Burrows
photography by [grace davidson] Stefan Schweiger
photography by [greg skidmore] Paul Arthur
photography by [jeffrey skidmore] Neil Pugh
photography by [jonathan plowright] Diane Shaw
photography by [matthew venner] Eric Richmond
photography by [samuel boden] Robert Bridgens
photography by [sergei babayan] Marco Borggreve
photography by [valery gergiev] Matt Stuart
photography by [Łukasz borowicz] Justyna Mielniczuk
Recorded At Beethovensaal, Hannover
Recorded At City Halls, Glasgow
Recorded At All Hallows, Gospel Oak
Recorded At Holy Trinity Church, Weston, Southampton
Recorded At Moscow Conservatory
Recorded At Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Recorded At Trackdown
Recorded At Théâtre Saint-Bonnet, Bourges
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Track 1 from 'Scarlatti: Sonatas' (CDA67613)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Allegro; nicknamed Bucolic
liner notes © 2016
Scarlatti biography © 1996
Recording venue: Beethovensaal, Hannover
Recording date: February 2015
Piano: Fazioli

Track 2 from 'Różycki: Piano Concertos' (CDA68066)
Ludomir Różycki (1883-1953)
composed in 1917/18; dedicated to Woldemar Runge
liner notes © 2016
Recording venue: City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow
Recording date: August 2014
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 3 from 'Roth: A Time to Dance & other choral works' (CDA68144)
Alec Roth (b1948)
composed in 2012; Cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra; first performed in Sherborne Abbey by Ex Cathedra on 9 June 2012; commissioned by Lady Digby to mark the 50th anniversary of the Summer Music Society of Dorset
John Davies (1569-1626)
text from Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing
liner notes © 2016
Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London
Recording date: August 2014

Track 4 from 'Galilei: The Well-tempered Lute' (CDA68017)
Recording venue: Holy Trinity Church, Weston, Southampton
Recording date: December 2014

Track 5 from 'Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 & Symphonies Nos 4, 6 & 7' (Mariinsky MAR0577)
Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
composed in 1931/2
liner notes © 1998
Prokofiev biography © 2009
Recording venue: Moscow Conservatoire
Recording date: April 2012

Track 6 from 'Only a Singing Bird' (Signum Classics SIGCD440)
Michael Head (1900-1976)
composed in 1956
Swami Sri Ananda Acharya (1881-1945)
Head biography © 2012
Recording venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Recording date: May 2015

Track 7 from 'The Captive Nightingale' (Signum Classics SIGCD398)
Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda (1801-1866)
liner notes © 2011
Recording venue: Trackdown Studios, Sydney
Recording date: December 2010

Track 8 from 'Lullabies for Mila' (Signum Classics SIGCD439)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
composed in 1724
Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
liner notes © 2009
French and German liner notes © 2005
Recording venue: Théâtre Saint-Bonnet, Bourges
Recording date: November 2008
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-61307 (track 1)
ISRC: GB-AJY-16-06603 (track 2)
ISRC: GB-AJY-16-14426 (track 3)
ISRC: GB-AJY-16-01716 (track 4)
ISRC: RU-A52-15-07706 (track 5)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-44003 (track 6)
ISRC: GB-LLH-16-39805 (track 7)
ISRC: GB-LLH-09-15606 (track 8)