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painting [schumann charcoal drawing] Eduard Bendemann
photography by [carolyn sampson] Marco Borggreve
photography by [cinquecento, tore tom denys, ulfried staber, tim scott whiteley] Petra Benovsky
photography by [corydon singers] Jim Four
photography by [ex cathedra] Adrian Burrows
photography by [jeffrey skidmore] Neil Pugh
photography by [lawrence power] Jack Liebeck
photography by [marc-andré hamelin] Fran Kaufman
photography by [matthew best] Clive Barda
photography by [pavel kolesnikov] Colin Way
photography by [philip cave, magnificat] Bob Barkany
photography by [roger vignoles] Benjamin Ealovega
photography by [simon crawford-phillips] Sussie Ahlburg
Recorded At Henry Wood Hall, London
Recorded At Wyastone Concert Hall
Recorded At All Saints Church, East Finchley
Recorded At Deutschlandfunk Sendesaal
Recorded At All Hallows, Gospel Oak
Recorded At St. George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge
Recorded At Church Of St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead
Recorded At Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead
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Track 1 and 2 from 'Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janáček: On the overgrown path I' (CDA68030)
Liner notes © 2014
Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, London
Recording date: March 2013
Piano: Steinway & Sons
Track 1:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
composed in 1849
Track 2:
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
composed 1900-1911; the first three movements of Book 1 were published for harmonium in 1900

Track 3 from 'Tchaikovsky: The seasons' (CDA68028)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
composed in 1876; commissioned by the magazine Nuvellist; sometimes called The months
Liner notes © 2014
Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth
Recording date: August 2013
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 4 from 'Benjamin: Violin Sonatina & Viola Sonata' (CDA67969)
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
composed in 1942; composed for a dedicated to William Primrose; the orchestrally accompanied version is entitled Elegy, Waltz and Toccata
Liner notes © 2014
Recording venue: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
Recording date: December 2012
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 5 from 'Amorosi pensieri' (CDA68053)
Jacob Regnart (c1540-1599)
3vv
Lyrics translation © 2014
Regnart biography © 2007
Recording venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
Recording date: September 2010

Track 6 from 'A French Baroque Diva' (CDA68035)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
divertissement derived from Act 2 Scenes 3, 5 & 6 of Les surprises de l'Amour; 1748, revised 1757
Pierre-Joseph Bernard (1708-1775)
Liner notes © 2014
Rameau biography © 2004
Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London
Recording date: June 2013

Track 7 from 'The Tudors at Prayer' (Linn CKD447)
Robert White (c1538-November 1574)
Text from the Bible, Song of Songs; antiphon for Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Liner notes, lyrics translation © 2014
Recording venue: St George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge
Recording date: January 2013

Track 8 from 'Villa-Lobos: Missa São Sebastião & other sacred music' (Helios CDH55470)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
composed in 1948
Author of text Anonymous - liturgical (Antiphon for the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Recording date: January 1993

Track 9 from 'Warlock: Songs' (Helios CDH55442)
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
composed in 1918
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Recording venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London
Recording date: September 1994

Track 10 from 'A Matthay Miscellany – Rare and unissued recordings by Tobias Matthay and his pupils' (apr APR6014)
Recording venue: Columbia Records England
Recording date: November 1932
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-03019 (Track 1)
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-03010 (Track 2)
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-02812 (Track 3)
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-96909 (Track 4)
ISRC: GB-AJY-13-05320 (Track 5)
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-03516 (Track 6)
ISRC: GB-ASH-14-44703 (Track 7)
ISRC: GB-AJY-93-63818 (Track 8)
ISRC: GB-AJY-94-73602 (Track 9)
ISRC: GB-SAM-14-01401 (Track 10)