J.S. Bach: Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonias), BWV 787-801

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 83

J.S. Bach, transcr. Egon Petri: Sheep May Safely Graze (Cantata, BWV 208)

Robert Schumann: Arabesque in C major, Op. 18

Enrique Granados: Allegro de concierto, Op. 46

Following her highly praised debut album, Yasmin Rowe returns to Willowhayne Records for an engaging and delightful programme, in which she returned to Holy Trinity Church, Hereford for this recording.

Now resident in Melbourne, Australia, Yasmin has gained critical acclaim as a soloist, collaborator and recording artist in Europe, Asia and Australia. As well as her concert hall recitals, she has given many free-to-air concerts As well as her concert hall recitals, she gives many live-to-air performances, appearing as a frequent guest on Melbourne-based 3MBS Radio since 2019.

Richard Elfyn Jones: Piano Sonata No. 1; Threnody for Ukraine; Dithyramb; Dance Mosaic; Fantasy Evocations; Piano Sonata No. 2 'Lures for Feeling'

Lures for Feeling takes its name from Welsh composer Richard Elfyn Jones' Piano Sonata No. 2, which derives from an assertion by one of his philosophical heroes, Alfred North Whitehead, who wrote that the actual world is essentially the outcome of ‘an aesthetic order derived from the immanence of God.’ His book Music and The Numinous aims to clarify this in the light of the composer's own experience as one who, when exercising his creative freedom, has always felt that elements outside oneself have a controlling role in one’s work. In his case, and certainly in that of many tonal composers, it is the obvious demands of the God-given harmonic series that is the rather obvious pointer towards the numinous character of music in its various aspects, whether or not the composer or his/her audience is aware of that.

This album also includes his Piano Sonata No. 1, Fantasy Evocations and other recent works, including the heartfelt Threnody for Ukraine.

Christopher Williams is well-known through is acclaimed recordings for Grand Piano and Willowhayne Records.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight'; Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Celebrated pianist-composer Julian Jacobson, acclaimed for the colour, vitality and insight he brings to his performances, presents three of Beethoven's most iconic piano sonatas in this recording. Julian is well know for his Beethoven "marathons", performing all 32 of his sonatas from memory in a day, most recently in November 2022 in celebration of his 75th birthday. "It soon became clear that the pianist's mastery of Beethoven's idiom was such he could easily have improvised himself out of any momentary difficulty" was how one critic described one of his marathon performances.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K. 475; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457

Aaron Copland: Piano Variations (1930)

Robert Schumann: Symphonic Études, Op. 13

Daniel Rieppel, a native of Minnesota of Austro-Hungarian descent, performs Mozart’s Fantasy and Sonata in C minor, the Piano Variations of Aaron Copland and Symphonic Etudes by Robert Schumann. Dr. Rieppel performs widely in North and South America and Europe (most recently in Iceland) and has been Professor of Music at Southwest Minnesota State University for over a quarter century. He has international recognition for his research into Schubert’s incomplete sonatas, finishing several that will be the subject of his next recording.