NI 5699

British Cello Sonatas
Bridge, Britten, Goehr, Watkins

This disc presents four sonatas for cello and piano by two composer-pupil pairs spanning more than eight decades, from Frank Bridge’s Sonata dating from the time of the First World War, to Huw Watkins’s work from the turn of the new millennium. Benjamin Britten was famously Bridge’s only composition pupil, and Watkins studied with Alexander Goehr at King’s College, Cambridge.

NI 5733

Music for 2 Pianos
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
Mussorgsky, Picture at an Exhibition

Mark Anderson and Tamriko Siprashvili gave their first recital as a duo in January 1994. They have since appeared throughout the United States, Europe. They have been exploring the two-piano and four-hand repertoire since their meeting in 1990 and are quickly becoming sought after as a duo-piano team and as soloists for two piano concerto performances by orchestras in North America and abroad.

NI 7914

Lev Sibiryakov (1869 - 1942)
Recordings from 1907 to 1913

Since the advent of sound recordings at the end of the 19th Century devotees of Vocal-Art have been fascinated by the voices of the great singers who were primarily active in the opera houses of Imperial Russia. Since comparatively few of these legendary singers made careers in the West, most could only be judged by their recordings - which were always very hard to find. Lev Sibiryakov was one of a small handful of Russian singers who appeared abroad, in the standard repertoire; he also promoted operas written by late 19th century Russian composers, and he recorded music that was to become a core element of an emerging Russian musical heritage.