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painting [robert schumann in 1850 - a charcoal drawing (1859) after a daguerrotype] Eduard Bendemann
photography by [alina ibragimova / ailish tynan] Sussie Ahlburg
photography by [bernard haitink] Kevin Leighton
photography by [ex cathedra] Adrian Burrows
photography by [florian boesch] Lukas Beck
photography by [grace davidson] Stefan Schweiger
photography by [greg skidmore] Paul Arthur
photography by [jeffrey skidmore] Neil Pugh
photography by [jonathan cohen] Marco Borggreve
photography by [kate royal] E&G Photography
photography by [maria joão pires] Deutsche Grammophon
photography by [maria joão pires] Felix Broede
photography by [markus becker] Roland Schmidt
photography by [peter phillips] Albert Roosenburg
photography by [sir simon rattle] Johann Sebastian Hänel
photography by [stephen hough] Sim Canetty-Clarke
photography by [stephen layton / trinity college choir cambridge] Keith Saunders
photography by [tenebrae] Eric Richmond
photography by [valery gergiev] Matt Stuart
Recorded At Henry Wood Hall, London
Recorded At Wyastone Concert Hall
Recorded At Potton Hall
Recorded At All Hallows, Gospel Oak
Recorded At Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Recorded At Merton College Chapel, Oxford
Recorded At Barbican Centre
Recorded At St. Augustine's Church, Kilburn
Recorded At The Sage
Recorded At The Maltings
Recorded At All Saints' Church, Orpington
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Track 1 from 'Bach: Violin Concertos' (CDA68068)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, London
Recording date: August 2014

Track 2 from 'Scriabin & Janáček: Sonatas & Poems' (CDA67895)
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
composed in 1905/6; first performed by Ludmila Tučková in Brno in 27 January 1906
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth
Recording date: May 2011
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 3 from 'Reubke: Sonatas' (CDA68119)
Julius Reubke (1834-1858)
composed in March 1857; dedicated to Liszt
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Recording date: October 2014
Piano: Steinway & Sons

Track 4 from 'Brazilian Adventures' (CDA68114)
André da Silva Gomes (1752-1844)
composed in 1785; Kyrie and Gloria only
liturgical text from the Ordinary of the Mass
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London
Recording date: September 2014

Track 5 from 'Yulefest!' (CDA68087)
Harald Sventelius (1902-1996)
composed after the Swedish folk song 'O makalösa stjärna'
Hans-Ola Ericsson (b1958)
Ted Tregear (b1993)
Recording venue: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Recording date: January 2014

Track 6 from 'Taverner: Missa Corona spinea and Dum transisset Sabbatum I & II' (Gimell CDGIM046)
John Taverner (c1490-1545)
6vv; Festal Mass
pre-Medieval text from the Ordinary of the Mass
liner notes © 2000
Recording venue: Merton College Chapel, Oxford

Track 7 from 'Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri' (LSO0782)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
composed in 1843
Emil Flechsig (1808-1878)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
liner notes © 2015
Schumann biography © 2014
Recording venue: Barbican, London
Recording date: January 2015

Track 8 from 'Scriabin: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4' (LSO0771)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
composed in 1902-1904
liner notes © 2015
Recording venue: Barbican, London
Recording date: April 2014

Track 9 from 'Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2' (LSO0245)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
composed in 1795; revised in 1798 and 1801
liner notes © 2010
Beethoven biography © 2005
Recording venue: Barbican, London
Recording date: February 2013

Track 10 from 'A Very English Christmas' (Signum Classics SIGCD902)
Philip Ledger (1937-2012)
Recording venue: St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, London
Recording date: January 2015

Track 11 from 'Haydn: Symphonies Nos 52, 53 & 59' (Signum Classics SIGCD434)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
composed in 1768
liner notes © 2015
Haydn biography © 2010
Recording venue: The Sage, Gateshead
Recording date: September 2014

Track 12 from 'The shepherd on the rock' (Signum Classics SIGCD429)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Julian Bliss (b1989)
Christopher Glynn (b1974)
John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)
liner notes © 2015
Strauss biography © 2011
Recording venue: Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Recording date: September 2013

Track 13 from 'Davis & Vivaldi: Seasons' (Signum Classics SIGCD437)
Oliver Davis (b1972)
composed in 2014
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
liner notes © 2015
Davis biography © 2014
Recording venue: All Saints' Church, Orpington, London
Recording date: March 2015
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-06803 (Track 1)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-89514 (Track 2)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-11901 (Track 3)
ISRC: GB-AJY-15-11436 (Track 4)
ISRC: GB-AJY-14-08717 (Track 5)
ISRC: GB-ADM-15-04601 (Track 6)
ISRC: GB-DGQ-15-28213 (Track 7)
ISRC: GB-DGQ-15-27201 (Track 8)
ISRC: GB-DGQ-15-24501 (Track 9)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-90214 (Track 10)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-43404 (Track 11)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-42914 (Track 12)
ISRC: GB-LLH-15-43701 (Track 13)