Audio

SHIFTING GROUND
Alexi Kenney violin

J S Bach Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio
Schumann, arr. Alexi Kenney Widmung Op 25 No 1
Angélica Negrón The Violinist, featuring Ana Fabrega
Nicola Matteis Ayres for the Violin: Passagio roto
Ariana Grande, arr. Alexi Kenney thank u, next
J S Bach Violin Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemande
Joni Mitchell, arr. Alexi Kenney Blue
J S Bach Violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: VII. Tempo di Borea & VIII. Tempo di Borea (Double)
Eve Beglarian Well-Spent
J S Bach Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave
Nicola Matteis Jr. Alia Fantasia
Salina Fisher Hikari
Matthew Burtner Elegy (from Muir Glacier, 1889-2009)
J S Bach Violin Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne

Bright Shiny Things BSTC-0205 | www.brightshiny.ninja
Release Date 7 June 2024

Recorded using part of Alexi Kenney’s BBT Award 2020 and including two BBT commissions, Shifting Ground – released on Bright Shiny Things on 7 June 2024 – is Alexi’s love letter to Bach, with solo Bach works cheek-by-jowl with modern works and new commissions.  Opening with Bach’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV 1001, the first movement, Adagio  and coming full circle to end with the epic Chaconne that ends Bach’s Second Partita in D minor BWV 1004, Alexi’s eclectic choices also encompasses 20th and 21st century works including two BBT commissions, by Angélica Negrón and Salina Fisher, as seen at BBT’s 20th birthday anniversary celebrations at London’s Wigmore Hall in June 2023.

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BRAHMS: THE PIANO TRIOS
Trio No 1 Op 8(revised 1889 version)
Trio No 2 Op 87
Trio No 3 Op 101
Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn Op 40 (in the version with cello transcribed by Brahms himself)

La Dolce Volta LDV132.3 (double disc set) | www.ladolcevolta.com
Album release 26 April 2024 

After an acclaimed set of Beethoven Piano Trios, Trio Sōra turns its attention to Brahms in a complete set of Piano Trios including Brahms’ own version of his Horn Trio. Released on La Dolce Volta label on 26 April, it marks the final project using the Trio’s 2020 Borletti-Buitoini Trust Fellowship, which also included the commissioning of a Triple Concerto from Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy, premiered in 2022.

A GARDENER’S WORLD
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall 20 July 2021 (BBC Radio 3)
Rubicon Classics RCD1087 | rubiconclassics.com

Release 23 February 2024

Schubert Die Blumensprache D 519 1817
Mendelssohn Das Erste Veilchen Op 19a No 2
Schumann Myrthen Op 25 No 7 Die Lotosblume
Clara Schumann Das Veilchen
Schumann from 6 Gedichte und Requiem Op 90: Meine Rose
Sibelius Six Songs Op 88
Fauré Le papillon et la fleur Op 1 No 1
Chausson Les papillons Op 2 No 3
Poulenc from Fiançailles pour rire No 6 Fleurs
Toldrà A l’ombra del lledoner (from A l’ombra del lledoner); Menta i Farigola & Floreix l’ametller
Guastavino La rosa y el sauce &, from Flores Argentinas, Cortadera, plumerito
Muriel Herbert Violets & To Daffodils
Elgar The Language of Flowers
Haydn Wood Love’s Garden of Roses
Encore: Flanders & Swann Misalliance

Released in time for Spring, Alessandro Fisher is joined by pianist Anna Tilbrook to offer a fragrant bouquet in music, made up of songs about almond blossom, anenomes, daffodils, mint, roses, thyme and violets let alone honeysuckle and convulvulus. Recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall and released by Rubicon Classics on 23 February 2024, this is the ideal soundtrack to any gardener or flower lover in Spring – or even at any time during the gardening year.

Trio Isimsiz piano trio

Korngold Piano Trio Op No 1
Francisco Coll Piano Trio
Brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C major Op 87

Rubicon Classics RCD1107 | rubiconclassics.com

Released 8 December 2023

Trio Isimsiz commissioned, with BrittenPears Arts and Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Francisco Coll’s Piano Trio. Delayed by a year, the world premiere was given in Madrid in January 2022 and the UK premiere was given at the Britten Studio in Aldeburgh in June 2022. In August 2022 the Trio took it into the recording studio for Rubicon Classics, where its musical bedfellows were Brahms’ C major Trio Op 87 and Korngold’s Piano Trio – his Op 1. The CD – completing Trio Isimsiz’s Brahms cycle – is released on 8 December 2023. This completes Trio Isimsiz’s Brahms cycle.